Nasty President

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There are so many stories to illustrate the sheer nastiness of Trump (ridiculing a handicapped journalist, going after gold star families, etc. etc.), but we have to start somewhere. 

How about this one:

President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that the decision allowing Bowe Bergdahl not to serve prison time is a "complete and total disgrace." He tweeted, "The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military."  The Army soldier, who the Taliban held for five years after he deserted his Afghanistan outpost, pleaded guilty last month to the charges. Bergdahl was released in May 2014 in a controversial exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees. Trump has never been a fan of Bergdahl -- in March 2017, he called Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor."

Trump on Bergdahl decision: 'Complete and total disgrace' - CNNPolitics

A few pointers:

• Trump has never served in the military.
  
• Serving in the military really isn't for everyone, especially in a foreign war situation, there are records from WOI that more than half the soldiers in the trenches could not even load their rifles anymore when under stress.
  
• War obviously took a toll on Bergdahl's nerves, stuff like that happens, civilians like us can't possibly imagine what it's like. It's for a reason that so many veteran's come back with all sorts of trauma.
  
• Trump even urged for the death penalty for Bergdahl during the campaign.
  
• That has been a mitigating circumstance during the trial, according to the judge, but Trump isn't phased by this at all, achieving exactly the opposite what he claims. His game is playing politics at the expense of people. Very nasty indeed.
  
• Consider also that Bergdahl has been a captive of the Taliban for five years and has been tortured. We can't even begin to imagine what that means.
  
• Consider also that he then comes back to a country where there are many, like Trump, out for his blood. Welcome home, Bowe..
  
• Consider also that he was dishonorably discharged, he has to remake his career and life.
  

This guy has been through more than enough, leave him alone, have a semblance of understanding and empathy (completely lacking in Trump, of course..)

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Anyone who has logged on to the internet this year knows of Trump’s obsession with drumming up an artificial immigration crisis, warning of migrants surging across the southern border. But his government has the same single-minded fixation on removing immigrants who are long-term residents of the United States. Last September, I wrote about how ice has turned its attention to the Mauritanians of Columbus, Ohio. These West Africans were victims of ethnic cleansing. In the 1990s, they fled from the Arab government of their country, which had attempted to empty its borderlands of black people—a violent campaign that featured massacre, torture, rape, and enslavement. When the black Mauritanians came to the United States, they applied for asylum. Although they had a strong case for sanctuary, they didn’t speak English.

Read: How Trump radicalized ice

They were betrayed by scam artists they hired to fill out their asylum claims, and so were never granted the refuge that they deserved. Until the Trump era, the American immigration system implicitly conceded the validity of their claims. Although judges had ordered their removal, ice never made the Mauritanians a priority. The government let them stay. Over the years, which turned into decades, the Mauritanians opened businesses; they became fans of Ohio State football; they were implanted in American soil and became citizens in all but name. With the arrival of a new president in 2017, that sense of permanence and safety vanished in a flash. Pillars of the Mauritanian community were detained by ice. Suddenly, ice demanded that residents visit its offices with greater frequency; agents began to show up at private homes. ice created a sense of fear that provoked some Mauritanians to flee to Canada of their own volition, rather than risk a return to their country of birth. It doesn’t take a bleeding-heart liberal to see the immorality of ice’s focus on the Mauritanians... 

Food stamps will likely go unfunded this month; workers will fail to make mortgage payments. Trump might not be able to find the cash to pay the agents who keep his family safe, but he has the cash to send longtime law-abiding residents to their likely doom. His priorities are perfectly clear.

Despite Shutdown, Trump Pays to Deport Mauritanians - The Atlantic

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With hunger rising at an alarming rate across the U.S.—particularly among children—as the coronavirus crisis sends unemployment to levels not seen since the Great Depression, the Trump administration this week resumed its effort to strip nutrition benefits from more than a million people by appealing a court ruling that blocked the Agriculture Department from imposing more punitive work requirements..

'Monstrous Cruelty: As Hunger Soars, Trump USDA Resumes Effort to Take Nutrition Benefits From More Than a Million People | Common Dreams News

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But as Rupert Murdoch’s outlets and the president himself continue to flog the scandal, spare a moment for Hunter Biden—a man who is recovering from addiction, a brother whose misery is the apparent shame of having survived his siblings, a son who is now the bludgeon that enemies hope will destroy his father. He is being sacrificed to a president who views the sadistic exploitation of a family’s tragedy as his own best hope of salvation. In its grotesqueness, this is a near-perfect closing argument, a presidency distilled.

Trump Is Waging Psychological Warfare Against Biden - The Atlantic