Palin links son's domestic-violence arrest to Obama's neglect of veterans
Sarah Palin addressed the “elephant in the room” at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally for Donald Trump on Wednesday, linking her son Track’s recent arrest on domestic violence charges to President Barack Obama’s neglect of veterans.
“I can talk personally about this. I guess it’s kind of the elephant in the room - because my own family, going through what we’re going through today with my son, a combat vet having served in a Stryker brigade fighting for you all, America, in the war zone. But my son, like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened,” Palin said.
“They come back wondering if there is that respect for what their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military have given so sacrificially to this country, and that starts at the top,” she continued, touting Trump as the best choice for president. “It’s a shame that our military personnel even have to question, have to wonder if they’re respected anymore. It starts from the top. The question, though, it comes from the top, the question, though, that comes from our own president where they have to look at him and wonder, ‘Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America and to secure the freedoms that have been bequeathed us?’”
“So when my own son is going through what he goes through coming back, I can certainly relate with other families who kind of feel these ramifications of PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with, and it makes me realize more than ever, it is now or never for the sake of America’s finest that we’ll have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them,” she said.
Palin blaming the president for her son's alleged domestic abuse is cowardly and opportunistic, yes. But it is also rape culture at work.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) January 20, 2016
Rape culture thrives whenever we ascribe blame for sexual or domestic assault to anyone but the perp. Palin chose to blame the president.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) January 20, 2016
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“I can talk personally about this. I guess it’s kind of the elephant in the room - because my own family, going through what we’re going through today with my son, a combat vet having served in a Stryker brigade fighting for you all, America, in the war zone. But my son, like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened,” Palin said.
“They come back wondering if there is that respect for what their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military have given so sacrificially to this country, and that starts at the top,” she continued, touting Trump as the best choice for president. “It’s a shame that our military personnel even have to question, have to wonder if they’re respected anymore. It starts from the top. The question, though, it comes from the top, the question, though, that comes from our own president where they have to look at him and wonder, ‘Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America and to secure the freedoms that have been bequeathed us?’”
“So when my own son is going through what he goes through coming back, I can certainly relate with other families who kind of feel these ramifications of PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with, and it makes me realize more than ever, it is now or never for the sake of America’s finest that we’ll have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them,” she said.
Palin blaming the president for her son's alleged domestic abuse is cowardly and opportunistic, yes. But it is also rape culture at work.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) January 20, 2016
Rape culture thrives whenever we ascribe blame for sexual or domestic assault to anyone but the perp. Palin chose to blame the president.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) January 20, 2016
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