Wednesday, July 24, 2024

“It’s pathological”

In the news: a revelation from Fred Trump III that his uncle Donald told him that people with several medical conditions “maybe ... just should die,” given “the shape they’re in, all the expenses.” Fred Trump III has a son with severe developmental and intellectual disabilities. Fred says that on a later occasion his uncle told him, “I don’t know. He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

The historian Eddie Glaude on MSNBC a little earlier this afternoon:

“It’s pathological. My sister — my mother’s been changing diapers for sixty years. Had German measles when she was pregnant as a young woman. My sister can’t walk, can’t talk, can’t hear. She’s never had a bedsore. She’s never been instiutionalized. My mother’s been changing her diapers for sixty years. And this man is going to say something like that to her? It gives you a sense of the depth of the depravity of him, right? — and how he thinks about the most vulnerable.”
The story of Donald Trump’s attempt to end medical benefits for his nephew’s son is already well known.

comments: 2

Anonymous said...

the sad part is that it doesn't surprise me anymore. what i don't understand is why the msm really isn't looking at him in depth now.

i had read somewhere that they think they covered everything in his previous term and therefore don't have to do anything and it's all old news.

i'm glad that biden made his announcement after the sunday shows. none of them deserved first dibs.

kirsten

Michael Leddy said...

I sometimes have to remind myself about one or another of his dirty deeds. There have been that many.

I wonder how much (if any) of the long wait for Biden to drop out was a matter of messing with the opponent. At any rate, it was smart to wait until the Republican convention was done.