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How do you know this?

 

Statements to the contrary.

What do you have to suggest he did ask for praise? There's no reporting suggesting anything of the sort.

 

Southern Baptists are about to vote on a proposal to condemn ‘alt-right white supremacy’

 

If you need a retroactive waiver, that means that you have been in violation up until the time you actually get the waiver.

"Sorry, officer, I was planning to get car insurance tomorrow" won't save you from a ticket today.

 

It's just as sad if they WEREN'T exhorted to praise him since his administration has achieved jack shit and they ought to be ashamed of enabling this two-bit toddler.

 

"Trump didn't make us praise him. We just spontaneously fell to our knees and blew him because he's so awesome!"

 

Any statement issued by any of the flunkies in the White House must operatively be considered bullshit.

 

The whole thing was highly orchestrated. And while Trump may not have directly told anyone himself, it was probably coordinated through some senior official like Preibus. That's how something like that would happen, regardless of whether it was Trump's idea. Anyway, it was surreal and pathetic. I lost what little respect I had remaining for a couple people in that room.

 

Unbelievable that this guy was allowed to foster kids, and was allowed to continue as a foster parent after a previous foster child burned herself to death to escape his madness.

Oh, and of course there's this:

The year before, he suggested in a letter to the editor that legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana would be a way to “stimulate the economy.”

Fucking loser.

 

A search of online newspapers show that Hodgkinson frequently wrote letters to his local newspaper, the Belleville News-Democrat, which published nearly two dozen of them between 2010 and 2012. Many included complaints about the same theme: income inequality.

Hodgkinson, who spent most of his life in the community of 42,000 just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, compared the economic conditions of the time to those that preceded the Great Depression and excoriated Congress for not increasing the number of tax brackets and adopting other tax-reform measures.

On May 14, 2010, he wrote: “I don’t envy the rich; I despise the way they have bought our politicians and twisted our laws to their benefit.”

Violence is no solution, but income inequality is an issue that scares the hell out of the middle class.


In 2006, he was arrested on a battery charge after allegedly punching a woman in the face, then striking her boyfriend in the head with the wooden stock of a 12-guage shotgun before firing a round at the man, according to a sheriff’s department report.

While trying to drive away from that confrontation, the report said, Hodgkinson used a pocket knife to cut a seat belt. The charges were dismissed later that year, according to the court clerk.

And why the hell were charges dismissed for those attacks? Those were really violent assaults.


Gunman who shot congressman had history of anti-GOP activity

 

Sadly, their letters still get printed. Biggest waste of print space in the world. If newspapers were as lax and hesitant to fact-check on their professional reporters' copy as they are with the blessed customers' letters, they'd all be sued out of existence. This is particularly true when the dear reader makes personal and bogus claims about a reporter.

 

Witness didn't show for court. Judge dismissed it.

It's mentioned in the Huffington Post story I linked to.

Judge wouldn't come to the door when a reporter went to his house looking for a comment.