Biden on Trump's PTSD comment: "He's not a bad man. But his ignorance is so profound..."

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Ruby Cramer ‏@rubycramer 1h1 hour ago
Biden on Trump's PTSD comment: "He's not a bad man. But his ignorance is so profound, so profound... How can he be so out of touch?"




Russell Drew ‏@RussOnPolitics 12h
WATCH: Furious VP Joe Biden brutally blisters Trump over veteran PTSD insult — ‘Where the hell is he from?’ http://ow.ly/2dlz304P7zZ

[TonyPDX]

1. Vice President Biden is being gracious, as always-- but Trump really IS a bad guy.

[sarae]

2. Biden's right...

Trump isn't a "bad" man, he's a grotesque creature.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Can we keep Joe?

He's the best.

[n2doc]

4. Even Don Imus this morning was going after Trump

Imus has been a vocal supporter of Trump, but this was too much for even him, basically talking this morning about how stupid Trump was, how ignorant, brought up Trump's comment on POW McCain again. He sounded like he was at the point where he couldn't vote for him anymore. Not going to vote for Clinton, though.

[yellowcanine]

7. Imus is almost as much of an ignoramus as Trump is.

How can he justify sticking with Trump until this particular moment? And chances are, his memory of it will be short and he will be right back on the Trump train next week.

[frazzled]

5. Made me cry almost

Joe Biden has such a big heart: he feels like the soul of our political universe. Others sling about ideology, or throw out quotable insults, but he seems truly to care on a personal level ... something that so many of us (myself sometimes included) fail to comprehend. Does he always make the right decisions or say the right things? Of course not. But he tries to make his political actions accord with his heart, and that is something kind of rare.

[gratuitous]

14. Indeed

Read that bit again about the exact numbers of dead and wounded. "It's not 6700 and some, it's 6,753 deaths, not 50, 53." That's someone who carefully goes over the information he's given, and who realizes that each number in the report represents a person. I don't get that feeling from a lot of politicians when they're talking about casualties.

[KittyWampus]

16. That's someone who has known loss and grown from experience.

Trump keeps himself in a bubble.

He's the guy who took inheritance money from his brother's bereaved family by rewriting his father's will while his father suffered dementia. His brother's family who needed the money to tend to a sick child.

When Donald Trump’s father, Fred Sr., died in 1999, the roughly $20 million inheritance was divided up among his children and their descendants, “other than my son Fred C. Trump Jr.,” according to the Times.

Donald Trump had helped draft the will. At the time, Freddy Trump’s children sued, claiming Donald Trump and his siblings had used “undue influence” over their grandfather, who had dementia.

Donald retaliated by withdrawing the medical benefits he had promised to his nephew’s infant son, who suffered from seizures that led to cerebral palsy, according to the Times.

[CanonRay]

6. Yes, he actually is a bad man.

As well as profoundly ignorant. I can forgive Joe being charitable, however.

[jehop61]

8. Biden is wrong

The Billion$Loser is a bad man.

[Moonwalk]

9. Yes, Trump is a bad man, a terrible man. BUT I think what Biden meant was...

...that he wasn't a "bad man" in this instance. Meaning, unlike with the McCain POW comment, he wasn't trying to be insulting or hurtful. He said the wrong, clueless thing about PTSD. But it wasn't out of meanness. I think Joe saw that in how Trump said it. And being that Joe himself has sometimes said things wrong, and been seen as being insulting when he wasn't intending it that way at all, I think he sympathized with that. Hence the "he's not a bad man."

[Cakes488]

11. We should not need a translator every time Trashbag speaks

Oh he didn't mean this he meant that...he was being sarcastic...it was a joke...there should not have to be a round of damage control every time a presidential candidate speaks. I mean Trashpot is so damn smart shouldn't he know that it's in his best interests to choose his words carefully..... He has no capability of careful measured thought...emphasis on the thought part!

[Moonwalk]

24. No, we shouldn't need a translator for Trump. And I wasn't trying to translate HIM....

...I was simply explaining why Biden might have thought and said "he's not a bad man" in this case, when, clearly, he's been a very bad man in so many other cases.

That's what I was talking about. So I don't see why I need a lecture on how ridiculous it is that someone running for president needs a "translator"—and if he does how that should instantly disqualify him. If Biden hadn't said that, I wouldn't have bothered, believe me. But I thought that BIDEN could use a little translation in this case. As I do think Biden is more than capable of careful, measured thought, and wouldn't say such a thing without a reason.

[Cakes488]

25. I didn't mean you specifically..I mean in general...every time Trashbag says something his fool

surrogates have to "translate" it.

[jehop61]

13. Sorry

Should have posted the scar ask emoji.😎

[rbrnmw]

10. Trump is a bad man

My best friend's dad has been back from Vietnam for 47 years and still wakes up from night terrors. He has tried therapy and medications but they never really go away, they just get easier to deal with.

[SHRED]

12. Has he tried cannabis?

https://www.medicaljane.com/ailment/ptsd/

[rbrnmw]

15. we have tried to talk him into it

he is a recovering alcoholic so he sees it as a danger to his sobriety

[SHRED]

21. Yeah that's tough

Good luck!

[Dorian Gray]

28. That's the epitome

of bravery. No longer self-medicating. Facing his terror head on.

What a brave man!

Screw Trump.

[CJohnson_LS]

17. As usual, Biden is spot on with his views

Great man, I'll miss him greatly when he leaves in January. And Trump IS a bad man, a very bad one at that.

[demigoddess]

18. They should put Biden in charge of the VA

or something else doing with vets. He would be motivated to do a good job. I have been seeing vets with problems since I was a young child. Before I had the words for it. It is not who is strong or not strong.

[Vinca]

19. I disagree. I think he is a bad man.

He's selfish and self-centered, does not understand the concept of compassion and doesn't care one iota about vets with or without PTSD. It's just part of the show.

[book_worm]

20. For once I disagree with the VP--Trump is a VERY bad man

[Boomerproud]

22. These statements show Joe Biden's charitable character.

I don't think there's a mean bone in his body-and he has been bruised by his sensitivity.

[Shankapotomus]

23. Trump is a horrendous man

And a terrible human being

[Marc2010]

26. Trump is a cockroach. I will not even put him in the same classification as the human race

[stage left]

27. I respectfully disagree with the Vice President.

Trump is a horrible, evil excuse for a man.

[madokie]

30. I second that

[madokie]

29. Hey tRump I'm one of the weak ones

who came home scarred for life because of my part in a war that shouldn't have ever happened. The Vietnamese people hadn't done anything to us, they were no threat to us. But yet that was the justification used to get my ass over there to begin with. We got to stop them over there before they get over here was the battle cry back in the lead up to my being drafted and ultimately being sent off to a war that should never have been. I came home a changed man. I, for years, couldn't figure out what the deal was until I finally started reading about PTSD and it hit me like a ton of bricks, I suffer from PTSD and have since my time in war. Fuck tRump and those who support him.

[uponit7771]

31. Worse than Palin, at least she was an Alaskan politico