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struggle4progress

(118,275 posts)
Sat Aug 10, 2019, 09:55 PM Aug 2019

Response to gun massacres: a full week of disasters


INAE OH
News and Engagement Editor

... Just hours before arriving in Dayton on Wednesday to commemorate the shooting there, Trump tweeted an attack at a prominent political opponent from El Paso ...

Later, Trump lashed out at Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and Sen. Sherrod Brown ...

Trump concluded the week much as he started: vaguely signaling his support for strengthening background checks. “I will tell you I spoke to Mitch McConnell yesterday,” Trump told reporters. “He’s totally on board. He said, ‘I’ve been waiting for your call.'”

A spokesman for McConnell clarified that the Kentucky lawmaker had yet to endorse any specific gun reforms.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/trumps-response-to-two-gun-massacres-was-a-full-week-of-disasters/

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My Daughter Turbineguy Aug 2019 #1

Turbineguy

(37,317 posts)
1. My Daughter
Sat Aug 10, 2019, 10:46 PM
Aug 2019

was involved in a dismissal of a difficult employee. It went back and forth over the last week but in the end, he signed the separation papers and left.

So now we live in Wayne's World for six months or so where we don't know if he'll come back and shoot the place up.

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