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Trump to widow of Sgt. La David Johnson: 'He knew what he signed up for'

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VanceMack said:
How do you get that THAT COMMENT "Sure. It sounds insensitive. It obviously wasnt meant in a snarky condescending way but I get how it was insensitive...especially when said to his widow." is taking away from his comment to the widow? How committed are you to your hate filled rhetoric?
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Do you often have a reading comprehension problem?? Where is my comments 'hate filled rhetoric'. Do you know the difference between an analysis and rhetoric? I gave specific examples about the implications beyond Mrs Johnson and how he treated her. Do you want to address that with something other than avoidance and snark? Why are you trying to deflect the conversation onto someone else, and not address the points about Trump? You are doing a deflection technique.. but not very well.

Why are you avoiding the points being made about Trump? Why are you trying to deflect the discussion away from Trumps actions onto someone else? Why are you being so frantic about that deflection?
 
danarhea said:
Oh! My! God! This call was made as the mother was at the flag-draped casket of her son, and caused her to break down and cry uncontrollably. She has now stopped crying. Her sadness has been replaced with much deserved anger.

Maybe Trump should stop listening to people saying that the doesn't call the families of dead service members, and just not call them.

This is a much different Donald Trump than the one who did interviews back in the 1990's. This is just an empty shell of what used to be a pretty intelligent guy.

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It's hard to fathom someone saying that to a grieving widow. But honestly with everything I've heard Trump say, this isn't some huge shock. He doesn't think before he talks. I'm fairly sure he meant no harm, this is just what happens when you elect a president with the impulse control of a little child.
 
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apdst said:
Do you have access to the full transcript of the conversation?
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Most Americans believe the people that heard the phone call...Not that lying sack of **** trump...Now go blame Hillary and get lost
 
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americanwoman said:
Yes and yes. I feel like I'm an empathetic person but sometimes in certain situations I can come off as saying something insensitive or wrong.

If he did say this, he was in the wrong as it's not the right thing to say to a widow but as someone who has also said the wrong thing at the wrong time, I also can't act like I've never done it either. Thankfully I don't have so many people following me to tell me what a worthless asshole I am.
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I suspect that it is not a way of life and pattern for you either. The pattern is more concerning than one single incident.
 
Fenton Lum said:
And Don knows why he dodged the draft. He was never intelligent, and neither is the public who elected him.
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Actually, Trump was quite intelligent years ago. Compare the past Trump to the "now" Trump and you can only conclude that he is suffering from dementia, and it's getting worse every day.
 
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Saladin4 said:
Most Americans believe the people that heard the phone call...Not that lying sack of **** trump...Now go blame Hillary and get lost
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Mrs. Johnson says she doesn't remember the whole conversation.
 
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apdst said:
Do you have access to the full transcript of the conversation?
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I suppose its possible that the soldier's family is making this all up, but I don't think so. The tone of the conversation they described is completely at odds with being "proud of his service and grateful for his sacrifice". Such graceful simplicity has never been Trump's style.
 
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bearpoker said:
I suppose its possible that the soldier's family is making this all up, but I don't think so. The tone of the conversation they described is completely at odds with being "proud of his service and grateful for his sacrifice". Such graceful simplicity has never been Trump's style.
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Making what up? The Jones-Johnson hasn't verified any part of the conversation except for the one part that have been made public: "he knew what he signed for, but it hurts, anyway". The call lasted 5 minutes. There's a lot we don't know.
 
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apdst said:
That's exactly what's happening. Nothing has been posted in this thread by the AT's has honored Sgt. Johnson's service and sacrifice. Not one damn post from the Liefties; just more TURDS.

You people wouldn't even know his name if it weren't for your TDS. And wouldn't give a ****, either.
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More of your worthless partisan crap felating Trump.
 
VanceMack said:
Do you HONESTLY believe it is worthy of all this? Do you HONESTLY believe it was sarcastic, or intentionally hurtful, or has been suggested by others, racist?
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Nobody said it was intentionally hurtful, none the less they were. What is said and you lack the integrity to admit is that Trump IS a moron, who lack not only the intellect to properly address the situation, but lacks in every other way, in empathy, in integrity and character.
 
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apdst said:
Making what up? The Jones-Johnson hasn't verified any part of the conversation except for the one part that have been made public: "he knew what he signed for, but it hurts, anyway". The call lasted 5 minutes. There's a lot we don't know.
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We don't know the whole text, but if the rest of the call was much different, I doubt that the family would have said that Trump disrespected the soldier. The context would have softened the impact of that less than tactful remark.
 
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bearpoker said:
We don't know the whole text, but if the rest of the call was much different, I doubt that the family would have said that Trump disrespected the soldier. The context would have softened the impact of that less than tactful remark.
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"The family" didn't say it. Mrs. Jones-Johnson said it.
 
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apdst said:
Making what up? The Jones-Johnson hasn't verified any part of the conversation except for the one part that have been made public: "he knew what he signed for, but it hurts, anyway". The call lasted 5 minutes. There's a lot we don't know.
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We know trump is an arrogant ass hole using these families to score political points with his brain dead "base"
 
Zyphlin said:
Forgive me if I'm not going to immediately take the word of a Democratic long standing Donald Trump detractor paraphrasing what she says she was told by a grieving widow Donald Trump said over the phone as some kind of verbatim truth that necessitates going forth and grabbing the pitch fork to mount his head on a pike.

Is it believable Trump said something stupid? Absolutely. Is it believable that a Trump detractor took things WAY out of context, is using a ton of exaggeration or hyperbole as if it's fact, or is being dishonest in what she's presenting about him? Absolutely. Both things are sadly pretty normal now. So I'm not apt to just take one side here as absolute and condemn the other.

But can't let a good chance to get all indignant before facts are actually known go to waste :roll:
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Will take the word of the mother of the fallen soldier or is she not good enough either?
The wife has not spoken but the mother has.
Even now he doesn't know the wife's name the soldiers name the frigging family name its ****ing Johnson.
Wtf why couldn't he just say I did not mean it in the way it has been reported all my sympathies to the Johnson family?
Is it that hard?
 
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Kobie said:
Yeah, the real problem is with Trump's critics. Not Trump.

Do you ever get tired of carrying water for this worthless asshole? He's the worst president in American history, and it's not a close contest. He's a disgrace. And anyone who defends him is worse.
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I'm busy watching the Vietnam War documentary and I think Nixon is way way worse- he committed war crimes and treason to get elected. Compared to him Trump is a kitten.
 
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bearpoker said:
If he had, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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He had a 5 minute conversation with the widow. Leftists are freaking out over one sentence of that conversation.
 
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Saladin4 said:
We know trump is an arrogant ass hole using these families to score political points with his brain dead "base"
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Lol...pot meet kettle. The Obama administration and Hillary had no problem exploiting the deaths in Benghazi for Political reasons and their supporters still have no problem defending them for the lies they told the families and everyone else
 
prometeus said:
Nobody said it was intentionally hurtful, none the less they were. What is said and you lack the integrity to admit is that Trump IS a moron, who lack not only the intellect to properly address the situation, but lacks in every other way, in empathy, in integrity and character.
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What I refuse to do is **** on the memory of a fallen Soldier for political gain...something which you and others have no problem doing.
 
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RAMOSS said:
Do you often have a reading comprehension problem?? Where is my comments 'hate filled rhetoric'. Do you know the difference between an analysis and rhetoric? I gave specific examples about the implications beyond Mrs Johnson and how he treated her. Do you want to address that with something other than avoidance and snark? Why are you trying to deflect the conversation onto someone else, and not address the points about Trump? You are doing a deflection technique.. but not very well.

Why are you avoiding the points being made about Trump? Why are you trying to deflect the discussion away from Trumps actions onto someone else? Why are you being so frantic about that deflection?
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Im addrssing THIS instance. Just as I addressed the Kelly comment. Just as I address other comments on their face. What is obvious is that at WORST...if this is as was prevented he, with the best of intentions, made a comment that could be taken as insensitive by the widow. MANY military wies would hear that comment and applaud it. Some would be hurt because their loss is very personal. But it takes real pieces of **** to turn those few words from a 5 minute phone call into the daily GAWDIHATWETRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPP scree.
 
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VanceMack said:
He had a 5 minute conversation with the widow. Leftists are freaking out over one sentence of that conversation.
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The mother has come out a verified trump's stupid comments...Is she a "leftist" also?
 
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Fenton said:
Lol...pot meet kettle. The Obama administration and Hillary had no problem exploiting the deaths in Benghazi for Political reasons and their supporters still have no problem defending them for the lies they told the families and everyone else
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Oh no...The Blame Hillary and Obama crowd is here...Yes that makes it all better for trump
 
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Saladin4 said:
The mother has come out a verified trump's stupid comments...Is she a "leftist" also?
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Very true, the mother of the fallen service member said Trumps comments shook the widow. Faux empathy from a man with narcisstic personality disorder is not what the mans family needed on the day they bring this young man home. I work for the VA, its all anyone has spoken about, Trump has pissed off lots of Vets.
 
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PoS said:
I'm busy watching the Vietnam War documentary and I think Nixon is way way worse- he committed war crimes and treason to get elected. Compared to him Trump is a kitten.
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I just started that documentary myself.

Although I'll say trump scares me more. I don't think Nixon was as cavalier about the use of nukes.
 
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Saladin4 said:
The mother has come out a verified trump's stupid comments...Is she a "leftist" also?
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God bless the poor woman. She's going through so much and there's no telling if Trump is going to start attacking her if she corroborates this story. This is awful.
 
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