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It is being reported, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is one of the officials who is spreading the false smear that Obama didnt call Gen. John Kelly after his son died in Afghanistan.
Steven Perlberg of Buzzfeed News tweeted:
Link to tweet
Trump is using the Press Secretary and others to spread false stories about Obama to distract from the fact that Trump was playing golf as the bodies of four Green Berets who were ambushed in Niger arrived back in the United States.
The problem with this story is that Gen. Kelly and his family sat with then First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House breakfast for Gold Star families in 2011. Gen. Kelly got something better than a phone call, which is something that Trump didnt do for the Green Berets. Kelly was seated at the First Ladys table in the White House. I would say that is some substantial respect for the Kelly familys loss.
Donald Trump didnt pick up the phone and call the families. He didnt meet the bodies of the fallen as they arrived at Dover AFB, which is something that both the administrations of Barack Obama and George W. Bush did. The Trump administration didnt publicly mention the ambush in Niger until 11 days after the attack.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/17/sarah-huckabee-sanders-outed-white-house-official-spreading-smears-obama.html
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)"a war with the past president over how the past and present presidents deal with the death of fallen soldiers"
What a stupid, puny, and insensitive thing to do...takes a stupid puny mind to think of that
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)She is following the playbook of the fucking moron's hero (besides Putin that is) Hitler... Nazi extraordinaire Geobbels.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)And she seems to enjoy being one.
Baitball Blogger
(46,698 posts)SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)she's a good christian, and would never bear false witness!
Everyone - with the exception of Kelly - in the Trump White House lies as easily as they take their next breath. Lazy-Eye Huckleberry Sanders should be ashamed of herself, if Republicans were capable of feeling shame, that is. I've seen nothing thus far that says they are.
George II
(67,782 posts)SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)were at least nice people! The Manhattan 'Hellbillies' are pure white trash.
But I like the graphic!
syringis
(5,101 posts)It's a too toxic surrounding for him.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)but someone needs to write this. Does this idiot understand why she, personally as a job briefing the press everyday?
Why doesn't she see what a fool she looks like and actually get a job she can be proud of? Doesn't she have female friends who can be honest with her? Does she really think it's her speaking skill, or maybe she, personally is being used as a dig to the White House press core?
Doesn't she understand her boss at all? What a tool.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)She has the eloquence of the Beverly Hillbillys.
I wonder if she has ever read a book at all...
She probably thinks that "Grammar" is one of her parent's parents!
Swamp thing.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I know that. I was trying to make a point without being super direct.
See women Trump finds valuable. Not valuable women, but the type trump thinks are worthy.
I will let others with better writing skills then me, say what is damn obvious to all women but the tool.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)I am just so angry anymore...
This administration is making my life in this country unbearable.
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)He only trusts fellow crooks, con artists and liars.
Ilsa
(61,692 posts)The press secretaries don't have that job forever, and if they lie every day, they will always be known as liars, probably unable to find work.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)She probably hates them darkies!
She is about as white toast as one could be...
Lying for Jesus seems to be a recurrent theme for her, and ugly beings like her.
There will be hell to pay.
Hekate
(90,633 posts)Trumpites make me want to hurl.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)TomSlick
(11,096 posts)Those of us in Arkansas can tell you the apple has not fallen far from the tree.
Initech
(100,060 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)Fake president Trump wanted the plane to land on the 18th. fairway so that he could "honor" the soldiers, as well as provide him the opportunity to honor the United States military by bouncing a golf ball off of the windshield of the military airplane, and then dedicate his "par" for the hole to the families that "knew what they had signed-up for" when they had children in the military.
CORRECTION: It was probably NOT a "par" - but rather, a birdie, because "he" has the bestest, greatest shots on the courses that he owns, as well as he's the one keeping score.
Mr.Bill
(24,274 posts)Kelly's son was married. He would have called his wife. She is his next of kin.
I wonder if Trump is planning on calling the families of the tens of millions who will be killed in the nuclear war he is trying to start? Oh, wait, no need to. In all likelihood they will be dead too.
JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)Life at the Huckabees must be a constant struggle to erase full passages in the family bible and write in quotes from slime master Lee Atwater.
I imagine the family is ethically and morally torn, as in entire pages out.
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Gen. Kelly has requested that the death of his son not be talked about!!!!
Obama gets that, Trump doesn't give a shit!
And yes, Obama would have called the wife, not the father, as the next of kin, per protocol.
JI7
(89,244 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)And we wouldn't want him to, either, these poor families have enough trauma to deal with.
tblue37
(65,290 posts)repeatedly that he must have known what he signed up for.
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)He is the very last thing that these poor families need to hear. I really truly hope that this was the only call he was allowed to make - and that it's the very last.
tavernier
(12,375 posts)I can't see him having any emotional anguish, sympathy or empathy.
MFM008
(19,804 posts)Christian............
Roy Rolling
(6,911 posts)How can the Press Secretary leak bullshit and expect to be given any credibility? Making up your own news is called a "news release" and not objective news. What a circus. So unprofessional.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)pwb
(11,258 posts)When they lay down with their partners in be Bed.? She is deadish.