Never forget Donald Trump denied his own handicapped grandnephew health insurance

[dflprincess]

This is (another) one of those items that should have been enough to keep him out of the White House

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/

Donald Trump likes to get his way, and he’s not above cutting off a sick infant’s health coverage to make it happen.

The story begins after the death of Trump’s father, Fred Sr., in 1999. As David Cay Johnston explains in his book The Making of Donald Trump, Fred Sr. had written a will after the death of his oldest son, Fred Jr., known as Freddy, in 1981. The will left the majority of Fred Sr.’s wealth to Donald and his surviving siblings. Freddy’s family was largely cut out.

When Fred Sr. died, Freddy’s children sued, claiming that the will “had been ‘procured by fraud and undue influence’ by Donald and the other surviving siblings,” according to Johnston.

Johnston writes that medical insurance had consistently been provided to the family through Fred Sr.’s company. This coverage was crucial for Freddy’s grandson (Donald’s grandnephew), who suffered from seizures and later developed cerebral palsy. So crucial, in fact, that a letter sent from a Trump lawyer to the insurer after the patriarch’s death in 1999 said that “all costs” for the sick child’s care should be covered, regardless of caps on the plan or medical necessity, according to Johnston. That didn’t last long.

A week after the lawsuit was filed in court, Freddy’s son (Donald’s nephew) received a letter informing him that the health insurance would be discontinued, meaning his ill son would be left without coverage. Donald openly admitted to the New York Daily News that he and his siblings took this action out of revenge.

“Why should we give him medical coverage?” Trump said, adding, “They sued my father, essentially. I’m not thrilled when someone sues my father.”

[JI7]

1. the vileness of this repulsive scum was all known but media needed a horse race

[Tanuki]

2. ...or that he skimmed more than a million dollars from donations people thought they were making to

St. Jude's Hospital via Eric's "charity foundation" to help pediatric cancer patients.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#2880efd86b4a

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R

[akraven]

4. As a subscriber, for 20 years, to MoJo?

Count on them to dig up everything! I get both print and online - the print is my favorite thing to find in our mailbox. I rarely doubt anything they do.

Revenge is best served cold, Donny - you lose again.

I have never hated a politician before him. Not Nixon, Reagan, Shrub - disliked, fought against but didn't hate. Now I do.

[maddiemom]

8. I Know!

Nixon won the first election in which I was able to vote (against him). He was obsessed with leaving a good legacy and JFK adulation, and so did have some admirable accomplishments. My ex and I really celebrated when he resigned, however. I felt Shrub was a dunce, but have to admit he seemed good natured. It was hard to HATE him,even though he was consistently annoying. Trump? OMG! How does one even begin? My late mom introduced me to "MOJO" and was one of the local Dems to introduce JFK when he barnstormed the country. I helped recruit "Kennedy Girls." All the teenage girls wanted the hat and the sash, even though ours was a Republican town. Trump would have stroked Mom out if she were still around at ninety-eight.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Sociopathetic. eom

[Cha]

7. That should have been a big Fucking Clue

to those who Sarandon sucked in with her Lies when she said "Hillary was worse than trump".

[maddiemom]

9. But Hillary WON, nontheless; despite being trashed nonstop

for no more reason than being an outspoken and ambitious woman. The Electoral College would have been gone by now if the results in Bush vs Gore had been the other way around in 2000. Democrats in recent presidential elections: "Please Sir, can I have another?"

[Cha]

10. Yes, she did, maddiemom.. Thank You!

[riversedge]

11. k for visibility

[malaise]

12. Monster does not qute descrbe this sociopath