WTF?

As the back-and-forth continues over the content and tone of Donald Trump’s phone call to the widow a service member slain in Niger, other Gold Star families are coming forward with their interactions (or lack thereof) with the president. But the Washington Post reports on what may be the most peculiar story yet: The father of a deceased soldier says that Trump offered him $25,000, but he never got the money.

  NY Magazine

President Trump, in a personal phone call to a grieving military father, offered him $25,000 and said he would direct his staff to establish an online fundraiser for the family, but neither happened, the father said.

Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge, said that Trump called him at his home in Zebulon, N.C., a few weeks after his 22-year-old son and two fellow soldiers were fatally shot by an Afghan police officer on June 10.

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The Washington Post contacted the White House about Baldridge’s account on Wednesday morning. Officials declined to discuss the events in detail.

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But in a statement Wednesday afternoon, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said: “The check has been sent. It’s disgusting that the media is taking something that should be recognized as a generous and sincere gesture, made privately by the President, and using it to advance the media’s biased agenda.”

  

It's disgusting that The Most Notable Loser makes magnanimous, but hollow, "gestures" - or as some of us call them, "lies".

It took 18 months for President Barack Obama to fulfill a similar promise made to the family of Kayla Mueller, who was killed in 2015 while she was held captive by the Islamic State in Syria. Obama’s undisclosed sum, for a charity set up in Mueller’s name, arrived only after a report by ABC News called attention to what the president later described as an oversight.

Well, that makes it okay, then.

Trump said this week that he has “called every family of somebody that’s died, and it’s the hardest call to make.” At least 20 Americans have been killed in action since he became commander in chief in January. The Post interviewed the families of 13. About half had received phone calls, they said. The others said they had not heard from the president.

Let me get back to Mr. Baldridge...

Because his ex-wife was listed as their son’s beneficiary, she was expected to receive the Pentagon’s $100,000 death gratuity — even though “I can barely rub two nickels together,” he told Trump.

Dick. He needs to profit from his son's death, at least. Had the son not been killed, would that make a difference in his finances? Also, his son would have been the one who named the mother as beneficiary. I presume there was a reason for that.

And now, he wants to shame The Most Notable Loser into coughing up that 25 grand. Okay, I'll go along with that. I'm still not feeling the love, though.

“He said, ‘I’m going to write you a check out of my personal account for $25,000,’ and I was just floored,” Baldridge said. “I could not believe he was saying that, and I wish I had it recorded because the man did say this. He said, ‘No other president has ever done something like this,’ but he said, ‘I’m going to do it.’ ”

And that's exactly what we would expect The Most Notable Loser would say.

Baldridge said that after the president made his $25,000 offer, he joked with Trump that he would bail him out if he got arrested for helping.

Ah. Two peas in a pod. I can see the man's agony over his son's death shining through, can't you?

The White House has done nothing else other than send a condolence letter from Trump, the father said.

“I opened it up and read it, and I was hoping to see a check in there, to be honest,” the father said. “I know it was kind of far-fetched thinking. But I was like, ‘Damn, no check.’ Just a letter saying ‘I’m sorry.’ ”

Also, just like Trump - someone doesn't "pay up" and you go public to bad-mouth them.

Such respect for our soldiers both these assholes have.

Or even if it's true.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  WTF again?!  He DID cut a check.  It's dated October 18 (which doesn't mean that's when it was sent.)  He's totally nuts.