Rachel Maddow threw the hammer down on Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying the president’s assault on Gold Star families in recent days is a “moral disgrace.”
The MSNBC star said that we “don’t have very many circuits as Americans to process” the despicable behavior by the commander-in-chief this week.
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‘Moral Disgrace’: Rachel #Maddow Lays Waste To Trump For Attacking Gold Star Families pic.twitter.com/nW8opqSapH
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Maddow said:
It’s just hard for us as a country to face the loss borne by families of service members anyway, even in normal times. … It’s, therefore, already hard for us a country to face the sacrifices and the losses that these patriotic families have gone through. … But it’s incomprehensible for us as a country to see those families, of all people, jerked around and lied to and slimed and called liars by the president very shortly after these service members died. This just feels like a strange news story to report. It feels surreal. It feels so unbelievable.
Maddow’s comments come as Trump continues to tarnish the memory of fallen U.S. heroes by lying to and attacking their surviving family members.
The president kicked off this shameful week – instead of appropriately honoring the four heroes who recently lost their lives in Niger – by claiming, unlike Barack Obama and his predecessors, that only he calls and writes to all family members who lose a loved one under his watch.
But as Jason Easley pointed out earlier today, that’s a lie – there are a good handful of Gold Star families who have yet to hear from Trump, and these families aren’t very happy about the commander-in-chief going on national television and lying about it.
According to the Washington Post, the grieving father of Sgt. Roshain E. Brooks, who was killed in Iraq back in August, said that after hearing Trump’s lies this week, he wants to set up a Twitter account as a way to get the attention of the social media-obsessed commander-in-chief.
“I said to my daughter, ‘Can you teach me to tweet, so I can tweet at the president and tell him he’s a liar?’” Brook said, according to the report. “You know when you hear people lying, and you want to fight? That’s the way I feel last night. He’s a damn liar.”
All of this was compounded by another revelation that Trump promised to write a $25,000 check to a grieving Gold Star father but never sent it – until tonight when the media called him out for failing to follow through.
As Maddow said on Wednesday night, it’s hard enough for these families to grapple with the loss of a family member on the battlefield. That is something they have to live with for their entire lives.
But it’s an utter shame to have a commander-in-chief of the armed forces not only fail to honor those losses, but to spit in the face of the families members still grieving.
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