{"id":9294,"date":"2017-10-27T10:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2017-10-27T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:48:21","slug":"trump-vs-a-media-rock-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-vs-a-media-rock-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Vs. a Media \u201cRock Star\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New American<\/strong>
\nby John F. McManus
\n10\/25\/2017<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems as though our nation\u2019s left-leaning\u00a0mass media<\/a>\u00a0will find grist for their anti-Trump crusade no matter what the President or his top aides say or do. If the President assured someone that the sun would rise in the East tomorrow morning, some media star would cite the ravings of a confirmed anti-Trump crusader insisting Donald Trump has no love for the West.<\/em><\/p>\n

Four American soldiers were recently slain in\u00a0Africa\u2019s Niger<\/a>. While performing their mission to train local military personnel, they were ambushed and never had a chance. Most likely, they were targeted because they were Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n

President Trump sought advice<\/a>\u00a0about what to say in the calls he would make to the members of the grieving families. He turned to someone who knew from first-hand experience how to handle such a tragic responsibility: Retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, his Chief of Staff. A few years earlier while Kelly was still serving on active duty, his close friend General Joseph Dunford had delivered to him the awful news that his son had been killed while serving in Afghanistan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dunford brought the terrible news to General Kelly, and Kelly recalled that message when asked by the President what he could say to a devastated family member in a telephone call. Referring to the death of young Lieutenant Robert Kelly who died in Afghanistan, that message to the lieutenant\u2019s father stated:<\/em><\/p>\n

He was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew what he was getting into by joining that one percent. He knew what the possibilities were because we\u2019re at war and when he died, he was surrounded by the best men on earth, his friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s precisely what President Trump copied and said to each of the families of the four men who died in Niger. We know this because Chief of Staff Kelly told a news conference first about Mr. Trump\u2019s inquiry to him and then about the President\u2019s subsequent calls to the families. The President did his duty but a member of Congress from Florida sought to gain some publicity for herself by attacking Mr. Trump. After overhearing the President\u2019s call to the wife one of the slain soldiers, Representative\u00a0Frederica Wilson<\/a>\u00a0(D-Fla.) characterized the president\u2019s message as insensitive, especially the portion that Kelly himself had once received\u00a0\u2014 and accepted. He said to Sergeant La David Johnson\u2019s widow that her husband had died \u201cdoing exactly what he wanted to do\u201d by serving honorably in Niger.<\/em><\/p>\n

John Kelly said he was \u201cstunned\u201d by Representative Wilson\u2019s comments. She has reveled in the amount of publicity she has received when she should have been ignored. She now claims to be the equivalent of a \u201cRock Star,\u201d and delights in the fact that Chief of Staff Kelly has criticized her attack on the President. When Kelly responded to her outburst and likened her remarks to the noise emanating from an \u201cempty barrel,\u201d she played the race card, calling his response a \u201cracist term.\u201d That should have been laughed at, but even though it is a gross absurdity, it gained wide coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Congresswoman Wilson\u2019s record<\/a>\u00a0demonstrates that she\u2019s no friend of those who wear the uniform. She has repeatedly voted against measures that would help veterans and their families. One of her votes saw her oppose a measure designed to ensure that families of some slain soldiers would receive death benefits. Yet she gets treated like a \u201cRock Star\u201d by the same media that delights in finding fault with everything\u00a0\u2014 good or bad\u00a0\u2014 coming from the White House.<\/em><\/p>\n

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View the complete article including links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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