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According to new reports, Donald Trump Jr. illegally shot and killed an endangered argali sheep on a taxpayer-funded hunting trip in Western Mongolia in August and the Mongolian government retroactively gave him a permit rather than tread on the toes of the U.S. government.
The report was met with outrage on social media, with commenters blasting Trump Jr.s bloodthirst for endangered animals and the wealth and privilege that allowed him to kill them with no accountability. Some even compared it to the right-wing outrage about Hunter Biden being given a free position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/internet-slams-disgusting-donald-trump-jr-after-he-skates-for-killing-endangered-mongolian-sheep/
From wiki:
Argali are considered an endangered or threatened species throughout their entire range, due largely to habitat loss from overgrazing of domestic sheep and hunting. As the world's largest sheep, the lure to gather a trophy specimen is strong among sports-hunters. They are hunted for both their meat and their horns, used in traditional Chinese medicine, and poaching continues to be a major (and difficultilly managed) problem. Argali have been extirpated from northeastern China, southern Siberia, and parts of Mongolia. Populations of predators such as gray wolves and snow leopards have appeared to have been negatively affected by the scarcity of argali.
In Pakistan-administered Kashmir it is listed as an endangered species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argali
The little shit traveled halfway around the world to kill an endangered wild animal and we got to pay for it.
BTW according to another report the Mongolian government had to make Trump Jr's hunting permit retroactive.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)they don't end up on the bad side of the Mango Menace, and I honestly can't say I really blame them, given his history of utter instability.
stopdiggin
(11,232 posts)it was probably the right thing to do. (and here's hoping that the "retroactive license" cost a good little penny)
What I also think is rather clear here is that someone (government or local) approved this hunt beforehand. So there's complicity on the Mongolian side as well. You don't just show up in a foreign country with your hunting gear (and secret service in tow) without somebody on the ground being in on the plan. Right? So, "protected status" must be a kind of flexible (and fungible?) concept in that particular part of the world.
(trophy hunting is something I don't understand .. but then, I don't have a great deal in common with Ted Nugent and that ilk either. - not surprised that DonnieJr would fit in though.)
Me.
(35,454 posts)so it couldn't run away?
Botany
(70,422 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 11, 2019, 01:30 PM - Edit history (1)
A $5,000 + rifle, a $500 scope, a tripod, and local guides to put Jr onto the animal is so disgusting.
BTW he no doubt shot the animal w/the biggest horns so he removed from that sheep's gene pool
some quality DNA.
The man is below contempt. Bet you he spent thousands of dollars to ship the horns back so he
can look @ them and play with himself.
Botany
(70,422 posts)Thrill killing of an endangered animal. And I am will to bet the meat would be nasty.
Old ram sheep that has run up and down mountains his whole life. Gamey and tough.
* Although as a father my urge to kill things has dropped off after Sandy Hook.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)I hate that man.
Backseat Driver
(4,377 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Proximity to Ukraine? In August?
Was Jr. working the scam, too; or was he just needlessly murdering endangered animals on our dime?
I am so sick of these nasty people.
Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)is nowhere near Ukraine. In August or in January.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Why are the American people paying for ANYTHING DJTJ does?
Botany
(70,422 posts)Why are the American people paying for ANYTHING DJT does? Right now the US Air Force is going
out of its way to fly into northern Scotland so they can buy jet fuel from Trump and have their personal
stay @ Trump's golf cours.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-donald-trump-jr-went-to-mongolia-got-special-treatment-from-the-government-and-killed-an-endangered-sheep
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Not only does that greasy little pig go around killing endangered animals for sport, but his jaunts are being funded by our tax dollars. It's absolutely nauseating.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I could really assume that, if Jr. could get away with it, he would hunt humans, just for the thrill of it. Maybe his family can make a world where it is a right to do so?
One wonders how much deep contempt a Son who has a Father like that can harbor and project? The endangered part was probably a thrill also since cold-blooded predators like that can seek forms of status we don't.
It is not hard to translate that act by Jr. into an indicator of the Trump Mob's views about people they feel are lessor than them, (which is a superiority complex that may have no basis in fact). I think the policies and behaviors of these slumlords supports the disdain and lack of respect they have for most of us and even a morbid hatred for humanity and animals, aka, life. Stalking and killing may be a way of life for them, even if you take it as a metaphor for their overall values.
What ARE the ethics of predators like that? How dangerous is it for the rest of us when the culture provides the means for them to capture more and more wealth and power and then coddles and encourages them when they get it?
Well, just look at how things are going and where they may end up. This is not so much about "we the victims", but recognizing the predicament we are placing our nation in when we enable addicts to get their fixes of power and wealth to such a degree. Can you expect a culture to thrive and survive that way? Is progress even possible with that kind of baggage and weight?
LuckyCharms
(17,402 posts)He's pining for daddy's love.
He'll never get it.
Shooting innocent beings ain't gonna get you there, Jr.
crickets
(25,946 posts)This one is the second for this Wednesday. (Lindsey Graham was responsible for the first.)
marble falls
(56,943 posts)IcyPeas
(21,829 posts)they are hunted for their beautiful horns
pazzyanne
(6,541 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)to shoot people. It should be easy for him--with thousands of little Hispanic children locked in cages.
Just so he doesn't inherit Daddy's bone spurs that'll keep him from going to AZ.
Bad case of Affluenza.
Brother Buzz
(36,356 posts)When Junior hunted in Canada with Jason Hairston, Junior ditched the Secret Service at the Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver. I believe there are no Trump hotels in Mongolia so he probably parked them in a yurt.
Jason Hairston, Former NFL player and founder of KUIU, tragically committed suicide at his home days after hunting with Donald Trump Jr.
Jason's gone, by Junior still wears KUIU bling
Botany
(70,422 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)DJTJ is a disgusting excuse for a human being.
And I still can't get over Gavin Newsom having been married to that spawn of Satan.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)She was busy balling his daddy.
trusty elf
(7,379 posts)knowing that he's pissing off the libruls and tree huggers.
I wish this were the last photo taken of Udai and Fuqad.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,646 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)And in order for them to be what they are, they first have to be shameless, entitled, stupid, and heartless.
They are a disease, and theyve spread it enough to be an existential threat to this country.
JustAnotherGen
(31,769 posts)Always get away with it.