SORRY. NOT SORRY. Donald Trump Feels Zero Remorse Over How The Week Went, Friends and Allies Say

[DonViejo]

The president managed to turn a question about a botched raid into a week-long fracas over his treatment of dead soldiers. He doesn’t care.

LACHLAN MARKAY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG10.20.17 4:05 PM ET

Over the past week, President Donald Trump has accused his predecessors of not caring enough about fallen soldiers and their families, used his own chief of staff’s dead son as a political weapon, brought a Gold Star widow to tears, and repeatedly attacked a congresswoman for speaking out about it.

It was a spectacularly-shambolic week for the White House. And Trump has absolutely no regrets about any of it. “He loved Kelly’s performance yesterday, and considers the issue won,” a White House official told The Daily Beast on Friday.

Aides and Trump confidants paint a picture of a president who, nearing the end of yet another self-inflicted public-relations fiasco, shows zero remorse, even for dragging chief of staff Kelly—who generally does not like talking publicly about his son, a fallen Marine—into the mess. “Of course not,” one senior Trump aide simply replied when asked if President Trump had shown any sign of regret over the week’s events. The aide added that Trump himself has said he does not believe he had done anything wrong while noting that Kelly was looking more and more “dispirited” as the week went on.

Events began snowballing earlier in the week, when Trump insisted that, unlike his predecessors, he placed calls to the widows and family members of soldiers killed in action. This was misleading at best and false at worst. But Trump followed suit the next day by telling Fox News that Obama had not called Kelly’s son after his death. After an uproar over the overt politicization of a dead soldier, Kelly came out during a White House press briefing on Thursday to address the matter. He took that opportunity to condemn congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who had been privy to a conversation Trump had had with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, who had died in a special forces operation in Niger early this month. During that conversation, Wilson recounted that Johnson’s widow had broken down in tears over what she felt was the president’s insensitivity to her loss.

Inside the White House, aides have grown calloused to the chaos. That the president managed to turn a simple question over a botched military operation into a week-long feud with a grieving military family, all while sullying his chief of staff’s public image, didn’t register as particularly eventful given the preceding nine months of drama.

Outside of the White House, Trump’s allies were more than happy to come to his aid. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he did not find anything at fault with how the president handled the week. And as for Kelly, he added, “I’ll take [his] word for it.”

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[underpants]

1. Gave himself a 10 did he?

What a vile sack of shit.

[muntrv]

2. No regrets?

https://www.google.com/search?q=no+ragrets&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw6YTEiIDXAhVI7IMKHYFeD-sQsAQIJQ&biw=1920&bih=985#imgrc=1veUJ7n9A-P5zM:&spf=1508532277064

[Iliyah]

3. Yes t-rumps does because if he didn't he would stop tweeting shit

lair, lair, lair, lair

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Of course not.

Because he's a psychopath.

[Gothmog]

5. Trump is mentally ill and is incapable of having empathy for anyone

[yallerdawg]

6. Bowe Bergdahl, POW's, "only left behind for 48 hours," "signed up to die for no reason..."

A former Marine general backs a sexual predator and serial pathological liar, and both disrespect elected officials and Gold Star families.

Not a good week for the 1% who serve in the US military.

We got your back?