Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: 'He was blaming the community'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post


By Moriah Balingit, Avi Selk and Mark Berman October 30 at 10:31 AM

PITTSBURGH — A mourning family doesn’t want to meet him. Top members of his own party refuse to join him. The mayor has explicitly asked him not to come. And yet President Trump plans to visit this grief-stricken city Tuesday, amid accusations that he and his administration continue to fuel the anti-Semitism that inspired Saturday’s massacre inside a synagogue.

The president and first lady Melania Trump are scheduled to arrive in the late afternoon, several hours after the first funerals are held for the 11 victims of the mass shooting at Tree of Life synagogue. More than 1,000 people have so far signed up for a demonstration at the same time — declaring Trump “unwelcome in our city and in our country.”

Congressional leaders from both parties — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) — have all declined invitations to join Trump on his visit, according to three officials familiar with matter. So has at least one of the victims' families.

Trump offered to visit with the family of Daniel Stein, a 71-year-old who had just become a grandfather when he was gunned down at Tree of Life. Stein’s nephew, Stephen Halle, said the family declined. It was in part because of the comments Trump made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, when he suggested the synagogue should have had an armed guard.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/30/despite-calls-stay-away-trump-heads-pittsburgh-after-synagogue-massacre/

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Gotta love this:

Congressional leaders from both parties — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) — have all declined invitations to join Trump on his visit

[janterry]

1. It's like going to a funeral when no one wants you there

Some things, you just don't do.

This is one of them.

[DeminPennswoods]

2. With no one to meet with, what's he going to do?

Wander around Squirrel Hill by himself?

[getagrip_already]

3. probably hold a rally on the tarmac...

of the pgh airport. There is plenty of room, the airport is lightly used since usair pulled out and it is no longer a hub.

[brush]

13. Didn't know that. I assume there's another airport in the city?

[getagrip_already]

24. don't believe so....

there is the old airport, but I don't think it's in use.

Really, pgh is an international airport, very modern and large, and largely unused.

[DeminPennswoods]

26. Lots of small airports, but none big enough to

accomodate AF-1.

[MyOwnPeace]

14. He'll buy a bagel

and complain how it's the toughest donut he ever ate (you've got to know Squirrel Hill - and you'll understand what an ASS IQ45 is!) ((well, you don't really need to "know Squirrel Hill" to understand what an ASS IQ45 is )).

[calimary]

35. That's for sure. You don't need to know the place to know him.

One possible exception to your statement. I doubt he’d buy a bagel. He’d expect it to be given to him for free.

[Hekate]

22. He'll say spiteful things, like he did to the Mayor of San Juan Puerto Rico. Some spiteful action...

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Because it is all about him -- and it's what he does.

[Paladin]

4. Here's hoping trump's Pittsburgh visit is an absolute PR nightmare.

I hope the shunning by officials and families is universal and humiliating, and I hope the demonstrations are large, loud and effective.

In God's name: how much of this evil man's shit are we supposed to eat?

[charliea]

17. I want video!

I want a cell phone recording of someone closing a door in his face...

That's the PR I would like to see!

[ck4829]

5. K&R

[leftynyc]

6. Is Birther Barbie going to wear

her "I don't care" jacket?

[Achilleaze]

7. "I've desperately got to make this ALL ABOUT MEEEE." - Dirty Donny* (R)

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[bedazzled]

8. It is all about hin. He is the cause

Everyone knows it so they don't want to be near him

[cannabis_flower]

15. This upcoming midterm election

Is going to be all about him!

[AJT]

9. I am hoping none of the victims families or members of the congregation will meet with him,

but he did manage to get members of victims families from Parkland to meet with him. Even if no one in the congregation will meet with him he'll just find someone to lie and say they are members.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Perhaps he can start playing Britney Spears' "Toxic" at his rallies, as even

members of his own party don't want be anywhere within miles of him these days.

[Cryptoad]

11. not only shun,,,,

they need to shame him!

[Moostache]

32. You cannot shame someone like Trump

He has no conscience and no sense of propriety. You have to have those things to even feel shame...

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Turn your backs to turn if and when he passes by or appears. To my Pittsburgh friends,

RIP in this very sad moment.

[Soxderrube]

16. Mechanic ie Bronson

He likes to inspect his work, and he is just getting started. If the midterms fail to get the house he will be stepping it up.

[amcgrath]

18. I hope the entire city turns its back

No reception, no cameras, no service of any kind offered to any of the entourage.

The last thing mourners deserve is Trump turning this into his day and distracting from their loss.

[ancianita]

19. His safety and security should be his own lookout. The city hasn't the resources.He should be turned

back on that basis alone.

[ancianita]

20. If they give him the opportunity to make today look like a spite fest, he will use it against them.

They should remind him of how he treated Illinois Republican governor, Rauner, when he spoke here a day or two ago -- 45 completely ignored him, left him in the crowd as just another dude.

They should turn him back based solely on safety and security issues. He'd still use that against them, since every action people take for themselves is against Mr. All-About-Me.

[PA Democrat]

21. And to add insult to injury Trump will be arriving just in time

to cause total traffic gridlock for this afternoon's rush hour.

[libdem4life]

23. From the old days: Nobody likes me, everybody hates me. Sittin' in the garden eatin' worms"

I'm sure DC can find a garden where the worms are friendly and would not mind your red hat of hat-red. That is after you are hopefully shunned as the cretins you both are.

[Johnny2X2X]

25. He could always visit Bowers in jail

I’m sure what hirts Trump most in all of this is that Bowers was disappointed in him. Maybe he meets with him so he can find out what he has to do to make Bowers happy.

Of course he’s going to blame the media for the attacks too.

[saidsimplesimon]

27. A moment of bi-partisan agreement?

"Let trump be trump", a great idea. snark

[elmac]

28. ​instead of paper towels

the moron will probably start throwing bullet proof vests to the Pittsburgh crowd .

[NCDem47]

29. He just HAS to do this ahead of the midterms

I think it was the mayor who said to wait a week, but nooooooooo. He has to do it NOW. He won't give a shit about the victim families or Pittsburgh after next Tuesday.

He wants it both ways before the midterms:

1. A wink and nod to anti-Semties with his actions and words so far

2. Fake sympathy to look barely human to voter fence-sitters.

[Cold War Spook]

34. Why would the families talk to him while they are sitting shiva?

That lasts 7 days or until the Sabbath which ever comes first. He would probably take the coverings off of the mirrors so he can look at himself.

[Harker]

30. He thinks a yarmulke

is a musical instrument.

[hopeforchange2008]

31. It makes me think of "When you're a celebrity, they let you do it."

He doesn’t care who he violates.

[spinbaby]

33. Pittsburgh is a small town that looks like a city

Everyone I know has some connection to someone who was related to a victim, or worked at a nearby hospital, or was locked down in a nearby synagogue. This is a hurt community and Trump is just rubbing salt in our wounds.

[ck4829]

36. Kick