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kpete

(72,080 posts) Mon Oct 16, 2017, 04:04 PM Oct 2017

Today or tomorrow? And exactly how many weeks ago were they KIA? [View all]

When reporters followed up on Trump’s claim that Obama never made those difficult phone calls, Trump responded “President Obama, I think, probably did sometimes, and maybe sometimes he didn't, I don't know, that's what I was told.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/355679-trump-says-unlike-obama-most-presidents-he-calls-families-of-fallen#.WeUArN5-wqg.twitter

For context: Trump was golfing on the day the body of one of the soldiers killed in Niger returned to Dover

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Today or tomorrow? And exactly how many weeks ago were they KIA? [View all] kpete Oct 2017 OP

Letter's in the mail, and I'll call if I get around to it uppityperson Oct 2017 #1

If I ever stop sending out stupid tweets. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2017 #4

Kind of like MontanaMama Oct 2017 #5

As usual, caught in a blatant, offensive lie maxsolomon Oct 2017 #2

excuse my language... handmade34 Oct 2017 #3

Totally appropriate language thegoose Oct 2017 #6

No excuses needed. I can't view His Awfulness without bursting into profanity. spiderpig Oct 2017 #7

"The.....the dog ate them." Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #8

Any other American politician would be roasted in the media gratuitous Oct 2017 #9

OH, DEAR GOD! He definitely has dementia. Nobody in their right mind talks in loops like that. catbyte Oct 2017 #10

Liars talk like that. progressoid Oct 2017 #11

I guess I'm remembering my relatives with dementia. They repeated simplistic, catbyte Oct 2017 #15

There is something not quite right in the language, more than his usual superlatives GusBob Oct 2017 #14

He is incapable of empathy. The man is a sociopath. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #12

That's right -he went golfing the day Johnson's remains were scheduled to return lunasun Oct 2017 #13