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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And now Kelly jumps in publicly.

Sounds like Kelly tried to prep Trump for the call and remind him that Johnson was doing what he wanted to do when he died, and Trump kind of botched the execution in a big way. Not sure why he's complaining about the Congresswoman though.  She was there,[b] and has a right to say [/b]how Trump's insensitive words were interpreted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/john-kelly-son-trump.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65972443&pgtype=article[/quote]

Why is he complaining about the Congresswoman?
It was horribly insensitive and tactless of her to go public with the phone call.  She politicized it.  It was a private call and it was not her place to make it public. 
If anyone knows... he does.  He has been there - or didn’t you know he had a son killed in Afghanistan?  
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Yes, that fact had not escaped me.  I bet no one said to Kelly:  "your son knew what he signed up for."
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Not in those exact words, but the meaning was the same: "Your son chose to sign up....WANTED to defend his country.....and died surrounded by his best friends, and doing exactly what he wanted to do." In the meantime, all this is a diversionary tactic to hide the successful operation in Syria. (And imagine how much worse the widow feels, with the Congresswoman creating a circus around this. FOR SHAME!!)[/quote]

And if Trump had said those words in that way, maybe he wouldn't have made a widow who was 6 months pregnant cry.  He's not good at empathy and should stop doing these calls.[/quote]

First people were mad that he wasn't doing the calls. Now they're mad that he is. I don't like the guy, but it's clear the press and the establishment has an anti-Trump agenda.

How often have we heard about Trump not promptly fulfilling his promise to give $25k to a gold star family? Yet, when Obama promised money to the family of an American killed by ISIS and subsequently forgot to pay up, it was barely a blip on the radar.

http://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/us-hostage-kayla-muellers-foundation-finally-receives-obama/story?id=43215918[/quote]

I was willing to engage until you brought up the "go-to strategy" of comparing him to Obama.  He is not Obama and he should be forced to stand on his own and be accoutable on his own.  I do not criticize him based on what Obama so I always cringe when people defend him with "What about Obama..."  It is like Trump and his supporters are more obsessed with him than Obama supporters ever were.  And that obsession is not good for our country. [/quote]
DP, but it is very valid to point out that liberals are criticizing Trump for the very things that they were fine with when Obama did them. [/quote]

No it isn't if that is the ONLY way you can defend Trump.  I understand that this is a liberal biased forum and as an independent, it gets to me sometimes.  But most of the liberals talks about Trump's shortcomings.  Most of the people defending him always resort to the "but Obama did...."  If you think Trump's conduct is valid, it should be easy to defend them based on their merits.  TBH, I get the sense that many of the Trump folks are new here.  Because when Obama was POTUS, liberals here would often criticize his missteps. Even among liberals here, there was not a universal "he can do no wrong" sense that you get among Trump supporters now.  [/quote]
That's not true. We have Trump supporters outlining all the positives - a roaring stock market, lowest jobless claims since 1973 (!), a pronounced decrease in illegal crossings, high consumer confidence, his work with Veterans Affairs, the Keystone pipeline, on and on, and the liberals just come on here and say "not true." It is clear that liberals have had hatred so bred into them that that will not acknowledge a single thing that Trump has done correctly. As soon as I hear a liberal say, "he has done nothing right," I know I'm dealing with someone so incapable of objective thinking that I usually disengage at that point.
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Well, at least one PP asked what Trump specifically had done to effectuate any of the things you listed given that some of the things are continuing a trend from the last administration.  I have yet to see a good answer.   So I guess if you want Trump to the credit you think he deserves, you should answer that question.  [/quote]
You people are exhausting! We had more than one person answer the question with a list of several positives that Trump brought about. But you libs are unable to process even a single positive thing. You are too determined to believe that nothing Trump does is good.

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I am the one who asked the question and I am not a liberal.  I specifically asked what Trump had done to bring about these positives. What policies or legislation can you point to?  It is not a trick question.  But I guess it says a lot when you just regress to an attack on liberals instead of answering the question.   [/quote]
And I specifically told you. But you did not like what I saw as positives or else wrongly credited Obama (assuming you were the one). I'm not going through the list again. Maybe another day when my back doesn't hurt. (Not related, but I'm having a painful day.)[/quote]

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