Trump sends $25,000 check to fallen soldier's family on same day as Washington Post report

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Source: CNN



Updated 7:41 PM ET, Wed October 18, 2017




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Trump sent a $25,000 personal check to the family of a fallen soldier
It was the same day The Washington Post reported he hadn't made good on the offer

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump sent a $25,000 personal check to the family of a fallen soldier the same day that The Washington Post reported that he had promised the soldier's father a personal donation during a June condolence call but never followed through...........................

According to the Post, Trump called Chris Baldridge in June, weeks after his son was killed. During the call, the Post reported, Trump offered him $25,000 and said he would instruct his staff to establish an online fundraising page for the family.

"The check has been sent," Lindsay Walters, White House spokeswoman, told CNN on Wednesday. "It's disgusting that the media is taking something that should be recognized as a generous and sincere gesture, made privately by the President, and using it to advance the media's biased agenda."..................................





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[Corvo Bianco]

1. That's why we need the press, Donald!

Remind you to pay your billz

[Mediumsizedhand]

2. What an ass. Good that the man will get 25K.

Kinda slimy getting it from Trump.

[Mr.Bill]

5. If it was me I'd send the money to the DNC,

and make sure Trump knew about it.

[Mediumsizedhand]

9. I imagine there was a reason Trump had made the promise, like the man needed it for burial.

If I did not need the money, then yes. That would be the statement. Or Puerto Rico.

[pnwmom]

15. The man was complaining that his ex-wife was getting the $100K death benefit

because the son named her as beneficiary. And the father said that he needed the money.

[Mediumsizedhand]

17. No way. I had not heard that. For this to be what Trump gave money to is telling.

Trump would certainly be on this man's side that the X wife getting something he did not, off his son's death. I do not think I needed to know this part of the story about the father. I do not know all the reasoning, so no judgment. But, wow.

[pnwmom]

18. Very telling. I read it in the WA Post, but here's a source

that doesn't have a pay wall.

https://www.indyweek.com/news/archives/2017/10/18/wapo-trump-stiffed-a-local-gold-star-family-out-of-25000

In his call with Trump, Baldridge, a construction worker, expressed frustration with the military’s survivor benefits program. Because his ex-wife was listed as their son’s beneficiary, she was expected to receive the Pentagon’s $100,000 death gratuity — even though “I can barely rub two nickels together,” he told Trump.

[Mediumsizedhand]

20. Isn't that something? Thanks for the information.

[mdbl]

29. Geez what a sleaze

He should respect his son's wishes. If my son cut me out like that, there would be some good reasons behind it. Like, I was an alcoholic or something worthless. Any more info on this guy and why would trump send him money?

[TexasBushwhacker]

32. For all we know the ex-wife may have dependent children

If good ol' dad didn't have 2 nickels to rub together, why was that? He's not his son's dependent.

[obamanut2012]

45. I was told on here by several people that didn't matter

And, the man deserved his son's money.

The boy made his mother his beneficiary, not his dad. It was his life money to give where he wished.

I think the father is really pretty scummy tbh.

[SunSeeker]

39. Yup, he empathized with the man because he was complaining about his ex-wife getting money.

No doubt misogynist Trump could relate to that. Dead son? Not so much. Notice he didn't offer money to any of the other Gold Star families, many of whom, like Ms. Johnson and her two kids, are also in dire financial straights.

[marybourg]

23. Burial taken care of by government including

life insurance.

[Mediumsizedhand]

24. I didn't know this, but I wondered. I figured they would cover it, but who knows. Thanks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. "The check is in the mail."

You know damn well that check never would have been sent if the WaPo hadn't reported that he hadn't done it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I have this brilliant idea how we can all make some money!!!!

Tell Sarah Suckabee Trump promised US money, too and we won't tell WAPO if he quickly honors his promise.

No one will believe Trump if he says he has no memory of the promise....

[mdbl]

30. ya, he promised to build the wall and we wouldn't have to pay for it

the effing liar.

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. SO much winning! n/t

[burrowowl]

41. I'll believe when the guy says it got it!

[bluevoter4life]

42. I'm half expecting it to bounce. Eom

[Bleacher Creature]

4. I hope someone follows up to see whether it came from his personal account.

Trump has a history of using his campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.

[unblock]

8. First things first, let's make sure it clears....

[Mediumsizedhand]

10. True.

[Siwsan]

6. Could this be considered setting some sort of precedence?

Or did he think he could make the offer so that he could sound like a compassionate guy, and then not follow up because, well that's his modus operandi, and this poor man would not ever bring the offer up to anyone?

[SummerSnow]

7. Bounced check or disappearing ink

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Trying to buy his way out of trouble. . . nt

[Mr.Bill]

12. In the history of the USA

the federal government has not printed enough money to do that.

[ClusterFreak]

14. What's disgusting, Lindsay, is that your asshole boss promised the father the money in June.

And it's now October.

[catbyte]

16. I'm surprised he didn't send them a letter & offer to pay them pennies on the dollar.

That's his usual shtick. Ugh, I just feel like I need to take a shower every time that sleazeball is mentioned.

[keithbvadu2]

19. Sincere? A phony gesture and he had to be shamed into honoring it.

Sincere? A phony (fake) gesture and he had to be shamed into honoring it.

Just like he had to be shamed into honoring his donations to veterans organizations.

[DRoseDARs]

21. Lindsay, your boss had to be NAMED and SHAMED into giving that money, you twit.

If there had been a single intelligent person to be found in the Trump Daycare Center, they would have come up with some b.s. cover story as to why the money hadn't been sent *yet* but would be soon. Sending it right after WP publishes an embarrassing article about it having been totally dropped after having been promised and then whining about said report just make you look fucking stupid and utterly see-through. It *amazes* me there wasn't a single solitary person between the ink on the paper/pixels on the screen and the eyes in Trump's head that could have said, "Eh, maybe DON'T look like we're desperately scrambling?"

[George II]

22. "It's disgusting that the media is taking something that should be recognized..........

.........as a generous and sincere gesture"

What's disgusting is that until it was reported that trump had NOT sent the check, that's all it was - a gesture. Without the WP report it would never have been sent. Just like all those millions of dollars that were "pledged" during that bogus veterans' benefit last year would never have been to any veterans' organizations had there not been negative publicity about it not being sent.

[Yonnie3]

35. I have a "sincere gesture" for 45,

but I'll save it for later and just say that he is an empty imitation of a human being.
Totally devoid of humanity.

I'm being"generous" today.

[Bengus81]

43. Yup...more of the SAME with Trump. Loves to look like the "da man" with money promises...

Then....NOTHING until the media gets hold of the story and starts asking questions. This is peanuts compared to that $6M he promised vet groups and then....NOTHING until BUSTED.

[truthisfreedom]

25. Feet, meet fire.

Worthless POS.

[truthisfreedom]

26. And btw, 45 knew what he signed up for.

He's a public figure and he can't take the heat. Thin-skinned ninny.

[Throck]

27. When did presidents start doing this?

Trump is eccentricly odd.

[bellmartin]

28. It's like the average person promising to give 50 cents... and then not bothering

... or much worse, actually, even if the fractions are proportionate. Americans with an average income have a much greater need for all of their funds than that creature has for all of those (ill-gotten) billions.

[Sneederbunk]

31. The Fake News just cost Dotard $25,000.

[Doodley]

34. Yes. Trump confirms the veracity of what he calls "fake news."

[johnsonsnap]

33. The fact he didn't send more proves him a liar

Just because he gave what he promised doesn't absolve him of lying. He promised that and gave that, but all thinking people know he should have done more.

[Yonnie3]

36. A teachable moment for 45?

His big mouth cost him $25,000. He will learn not to BS. Cough, Cough.

Nope, never happen.

He will keep talking big and the press will keep calling him on it.

[Achilleaze]

37. The Republican draft dodger in chief is

One squirelly, untrustworthy, deceitful dotard

[SunSeeker]

38. Trump has a long history of broken promises to charities. nt

[Bengus81]

44. Really he sent it?? Let's see PROOF..............