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Uproar over Trump's Gold Star families remark
Trump caused an uproar Thursday when he suggested in an interview that he might have contracted Covid-19 from Gold Star family members who were too close to him when telling stories of their loved ones who died in the line of duty, POLITICO's Quint Forgey and your Morning D correspondent write.
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“Sometimes, I’d be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didn’t want to cancel that,” he said. “But they all came in, and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story.”
Trump explained that as he was being told these stories about fallen service members, “I can’t say, ‘Back up, stand 10 feet,’ you know? I just can’t do it.”
Several top Democratic lawmakers ripped Trump over his comments, saying the president disrespected military families and shifted blame for his administration's shortcomings on the coronavirus.
"Whether he intended it or not, the President has blamed an event with families who lost their loved ones in battle for giving him COVID. That is a shocking statement even for this President," Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. "He must immediately apologize. Failure to do so would be yet another example of his callous disregard and disrespect for the women and men of our Armed Forces who we ask to stand in harm’s way." - Politico
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“Sometimes, I’d be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didn’t want to cancel that,” he said. “But they all came in, and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story.”
Trump explained that as he was being told these stories about fallen service members, “I can’t say, ‘Back up, stand 10 feet,’ you know? I just can’t do it.”
Several top Democratic lawmakers ripped Trump over his comments, saying the president disrespected military families and shifted blame for his administration's shortcomings on the coronavirus.
"Whether he intended it or not, the President has blamed an event with families who lost their loved ones in battle for giving him COVID. That is a shocking statement even for this President," Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. "He must immediately apologize. Failure to do so would be yet another example of his callous disregard and disrespect for the women and men of our Armed Forces who we ask to stand in harm’s way." - Politico
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