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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 08:06 PM Nov 2016

Child with Cerebral Palsy Hounded Out of Trump Rally

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/6/1592275/-Child-with-Cerebral-Palsy-Hounded-Out-of-Trump-Rally

Given the breathless wall-to-wall media coverage of the GOP panic attack over a Republican protester with a scary sign at Trump’s Reno rally last night, I’m surprised this hasn’t received more attention. On the same day, at a Trump rally in Tampa, his supporters pushed around J.J. Holmes, a 12-year old boy with severe cerebral palsy – pushing and kicking at his wheelchair while Trump bellowed “Get them out!”...

After his speech, Obama spent a moment with J.J. Holmes, a 12-year-old boy with a severe case of cerebral palsy who had been pushed out of a Trump rally Saturday in Tampa. A White House photographer snapped photographs of Obama shaking hands with J.J. and standing behind the boy's wheelchair, according to a pool report.

J.J. said that he had gone to the Saturday rally to protest Trump's mocking of people who have disabilities. His mother, Alison Holmes, brought her son, who speaks only through a computer vocalization device. “The crowd started chanting 'U-S-A' and pushing his wheelchair,” Holmes said.

As Holmes spoke, J.J. said through his vocalization device: “I hate Donald Trump. I hate Donald Trump.”


Why do Trumpanzees hate people with disabilities so much?!

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Child with Cerebral Palsy Hounded Out of Trump Rally (Original Post) KamaAina Nov 2016 OP
Look at the faces in crowd... smiling, happy people who are probably as procon Nov 2016 #2
Trump is a big believer in eugenics - just like Hitler dalton99 Nov 2016 #4
Jesus... this Trump monster has to be defeated and BADLY Fast Walker 52 Nov 2016 #5
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procon

(15,805 posts)
2. Look at the faces in crowd... smiling, happy people who are probably as
Mon Nov 7, 2016, 08:43 PM
Nov 2016

thrilled as the little boy, just watching the president do that magical thing he does with kids.

I love this photo from Roll Call:




http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/behind-meeting-obama-young-man-disability-tossed-trump-rally

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