He’s actually campaigning with the war criminals
by digby
He did it. This time it was at a “secret” super rich fundraiser but I’d guess it won’t be the last time:
President Donald Trump, speaking during a closed-door speech to Republican Party of Florida donors at the state party’s annual Statesman’s Dinner, was in “rare form” Saturday night.
The dinner, which raised $3.5 million for the state party, was met with unusual secrecy. The 1,000 attendees were required to check their cell phones into individual locked cases before they entered the unmarked ballroom at the south end of the resort. Reporters were not allowed to attend.
But the secrecy was key to Trump’s performance, which attendees called “hilarious.”
Riding the high of the successful event turnout — and without the pressure of press or cell phones — Trump transformed into a “total comedian,” according to six people who attended the event and spoke afterward to the Miami Herald.
He also pulled an unusual move, bringing on stage Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who Trump pardoned last month for cases involving war crimes. Lorance was serving a 19-year sentence for ordering his soldiers shoot at unarmed men in Afghanistan, and Golsteyn was to stand trial for the 2010 extrajudicial killing of a suspected bomb maker.
A little reminder that a member of the Saudi Arabian military, in the US for aviation training, shot up a Pensacola, Florida classroom late last week and all the president has done is sing the praises of the Saudi Royals for agreeing to write some checks to the victims families (for some reason.)
He’s doing that as he’s campaigning with members of the US Military convicted and accused of murdering unarmed Afghans.
What the hell is going on here? Is it the official policy of the Republican Party now that anyone in uniform who shoots innocent people, whether in Afghanistan or the United States of America, is just “doing his job?”
You have to wonder. This is beyond bizarre.
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