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President Donald Trump awards Miriam Adelson, the spouse of Las Vegas Sands Company Chief Government Sheldon Adelson and Republican mega donor the Medal of Freedom throughout a ceremony within the East Room of the White Home in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.
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OMG!
I couldn’t consider the rest to say or suppose in the meanwhile I heard Donald Trump demean, as soon as once more, not solely the navy service of courageous American women and men however the final acts of bravery and sacrifice which might be acknowledged by america via the hardly ever awarded Congressional Medal of Honor.
For these of you who might have missed the information Friday about Trump’s persevering with effort to denigrate the service to this nation of America’s bravest and, oftentimes, most selfless residents, it got here throughout a speech on, of all issues, antisemitism.
From the lips of the person who discovered “good folks” on either side of a neo-Nazi march that ended within the demise of an harmless girl — and, subsequently, an individual who ought to by no means be requested to talk with any authority or with any diploma of respect for his opinion on the scourge of Jew-hatred — got here the hole phrases of condemnation that one ought to count on from a politician within the enterprise of pandering to his rich donors.
Sure, there have been rich donors to the Trump presidential marketing campaign in New Jersey this previous week. Lots of them are Jewish. And all of them have been handled to an introduction by Las Vegas’ personal Miriam Adelson, who praised Trump and belittled any Jewish one who thinks extra of America than she or he would possibly consider Trump.
However that was no shock. Miriam has dedicated near $100 million to his marketing campaign this yr. Many suppose the quantity will method $200 million by the point Trump is finished along with her. By the best way, that’s a really small drop within the very massive billionaire bucket that belongs to the Adelson household.
What does she get in return? Moreover the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in 2018, the easy reply is “something she desires” on the subject of America’s coverage towards Israel and the Center East if Trump wins in November.
It’s a easy cut price. And everyone knows that Trump loves a cut price. The important thing query is, in fact, what does Miriam need and is it truly good for the Israeli folks and good for America?
Proper now, President Joe Biden is doing all he can and an entire lot extra to maintain Israel protected and discover a solution to a cease-fire that may deliver the hostages residence.
I can’t start to think about Miriam’s subsequent ask and what that may do to peacemaking within the Center East for the following 50 years. Effectively, that’s not fully true. I’ve an excellent thought what she desires as a result of she and her late-husband, Sheldon, advised me what they wished. That was simply earlier than they tried to close down the Las Vegas Solar and shut me up so I couldn’t say the sort of issues that I’m saying right now. In my newspaper. Which is inside their newspaper.
However, I digress. My authorized points with the Adelson household and their efforts to silence the Solar will end in a trial at which period the entire story might be advised. Till then, I ought to keep on with the topic, which is Trump’s disdain for the women and men who serve our nation in uniform.
He took the chance to heap $100 million value of reward on Miriam final week. In doing so, he belittled each one who has worn the uniform of america and each hero who has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
It was no totally different than when Trump attacked Sen. John McCain for being captured and held prisoner by the Viet Cong and who refused particular therapy and launch from captivity till all the prisoners who had been there longer have been launched. Trump mentioned McCain “was not a conflict hero.” He mentioned, “I like individuals who weren’t captured.”
And it was no totally different than the time he reluctantly traveled to France in 2018 to acknowledge the anniversary of the tip of World Warfare I. That’s when it was reported that he privately disparaged the Marines who died at Belleau Wooden. He known as them “suckers” and the troopers who have been buried within the American cemetery there — so removed from residence — “losers.”
What he did Friday was proclaim that those that have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor have been both in dangerous form as a result of they’d been hit so many occasions by bullets or they have been useless. He contrasted these heroes to Miriam — who wrote huge checks to Trump on the best way to her Presidential Medal of Freedom — and remained a “wholesome, lovely girl.”
Therefore the expression on the high of this column. OMG!
It can’t be that Trump is dropping it, as a result of he has felt this fashion about those that have served their nation within the navy at the very least since he proclaimed John McCain lower than the hero he was.
Possibly Trump has felt this fashion ever since he did his greatest — with nice success — to keep away from his personal navy service to america when it was his flip to step up. He stepped out, regardless that that will need to have damage him enormously, what with bone spurs and all.
I actually don’t know why he hates the navy — and, conversely, why some within the navy love him — however I do know that’s not the angle I wish to see within the commander in chief of America’s armed forces.
However, hey, that’s simply me. I used to be raised in a different way. I used to be raised to like my nation, to serve it when known as, and to do all I might do to guard it and develop it towards the best of constructing this a extra good union.
I suppose that’s why the one factor I might say or take into consideration Trump this week was, “OMG!”
And I’ll vote accordingly.
Brian Greenspun is editor, writer and proprietor of the Solar.
