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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 09:13 AM Feb 2018

Don Jr. Advises President Trump After School Shooting: Don't Go Wobbly on Guns

Source: The Daily Beast



In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, young survivors issued a call to action to President Trump, but his eldest son is telling him not to listen.

ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
02.20.18 4:36 AM ET

As President Donald Trump surveys aides and guests at his resort at Mar-a-Lago about what to do about gun control in the wake of another school shooting, one voice close to him is advising that he not give in to those calling for stricter measures.

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, has been assuring his dad that the right move was to stay strong on gun rights and draw a hard line on the issue that helped propel him in the 2016 election. He is among the host of people talking to the president in the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which resulted in the death of 17 people. But the fact that he is family makes his access more personal and his guidance more trusted.

For those hoping to turn the latest national tragedy into a robust legislative response on guns, this isn’t a good thing. While some friends have urged Trump to adopt a more balanced approach, or even for the revival of an assault-weapons ban, Trump Jr. has argued that there was no time for even a hint of reversion to the more restrictive views on guns that Trump espoused years before he became leader of the Republican Party.

According to three sources with knowledge of their conversations, the president and Trump Jr. repeatedly discussed gun control over the long Presidents’ Day weekend, often as they both closely watched a TV airing footage in real-time of young Parkland students savaging the president for his inaction.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/don-jr-advises-president-trump-post-parkland-dont-go-wobbly-on-guns?ref=home

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Don Jr. Advises President Trump After School Shooting: Don't Go Wobbly on Guns (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
Is it me or does it sound like the two Deliverance boys are having more of a say in Squinch Feb 2018 #1
Now Paw, don't go wobbly on them guns FakeNoose Feb 2018 #15
LOL! If only! Squinch Feb 2018 #16
Was the family at Mar a Lago, too? Another big bill for the taxpayers? eom Frustratedlady Feb 2018 #2
Again I ask, weren't we told Uday and Qusay were going to keep their noses out of politics? tanyev Feb 2018 #3
Jahhh ...ve veer only going to half Jarvanka UpInArms Feb 2018 #4
Consider the source... BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #5
Dear sexual predator's dumb fuck son...................you don't get it turbinetree Feb 2018 #6
Trump, Jr, Ill call him Boxy, or GWC58 Feb 2018 #7
Good one...................... turbinetree Feb 2018 #8
Yes to all! GWC58 Feb 2018 #9
Dont you know it GWC58 Feb 2018 #11
so now fredo is the the advisor. oh shit. nt Javaman Feb 2018 #10
Yeah GWC58 Feb 2018 #12
a gathering of soulless morons Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #13
Thirty million djt got from. NRA. Isnt don jr one who advised him to fire Comey?h notdarkyet Feb 2018 #14

Squinch

(51,017 posts)
1. Is it me or does it sound like the two Deliverance boys are having more of a say in
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 09:16 AM
Feb 2018

the asshole's positions?

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
6. Dear sexual predator's dumb fuck son...................you don't get it
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 09:50 AM
Feb 2018

these young "human beings" don't give a shit about you or your father, they are coming of age, and some of them will be eighteen, and they will vote, this shows that you are about a smart as a box of rocks, they will be the future of what this issue is when it comes to guns, since you live in a pompous ivory tower, you will never know what it feels like to have a issue this serious effect them rest of there lives.

I still remember and seeing my grade school, my principle laying on the ground dead and my science teacher shot and wounded...................that was in 1964 asshole, and I can still see it today and it still effects the way I look at guns................so sexual predators dumb fuck son.................eat me.............I will be in Washington supporting these young human beings, the future sanity of the country is at stake, because these young adults have more common sense than you, the NRA, the gun manufactures, and the politician that have blood money on there hands............................because I saw what a gun can do over 54 years ago, when I was thirteen-----your just like your worthless malignant narcissist psychopathic father----------you have no empathy................he trained you, and you are just as dangerous as him.

And whats really galling is that he wants a photo-op, to have a show and tell from young people from the school................to show FAKE" concern and short lived gratification to his ego.

I really hope one of them asks this question(s) and and ask why did you say this and show him the video.....................jerk, because he is and was only worried about VOTES, he never thinks before he speaks, he just mouths off with his jibbersih..........................what a fucking ass








November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
11. Dont you know it
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 10:13 AM
Feb 2018

I don’t think people, like those on the right, realize just how really pissed off and angry the women in this nation are. To that I say thank God for the angry female voter! Republican control of Congress will go all

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,442 posts)
13. a gathering of soulless morons
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 11:55 AM
Feb 2018

The NRA million$ speak louder in TrumPutin's ear than mere offspring and Geraldo with his empty vault cranium, even if Geraldo drew a map in the sand trap.

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
14. Thirty million djt got from. NRA. Isnt don jr one who advised him to fire Comey?h
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 12:02 PM
Feb 2018

His advice is toxic. Put you right under special investigation. Go ahead take it djt.

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