2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEric Trump claims Wisconsin recount killed at least 5,000 children and gets pounded on Twitter
DAVID EDWARDS
05 DEC 2016 AT 09:58 ET
Eric Trump, the son of President-elect Donald Trump, asserted over the weekend that at least 5,000 children had died due to an effort to verify the election outcome in Wisconsin.
In a tweet on Sunday, Eric Trump said that the sad truth was that the cost Of Stein/Clintons #Wisconsin vote recount could have saved at least 5,000 childrens lives.
Eric Trump ✔
@EricTrump
The Sad Truth: The Cost Of Stein/Clinton's #Wisconsin Vote Recount Could Have Saved At Least 5,000 Children's Lives https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/12/02/the-cost-of-steinclintons-wisconsin-vote-recount-could-have-saved-at-least-5000-childrens-lives/
4:01 PM - 4 Dec 2016 · New Rochelle, NY
5,845 Retweets 9,696 likes
The tweet included a link to a Forbes column by conservative writer Chris Conover, who argues that Green Party candidate Jill Stein should have redirected the $3.5 million spent on the recount to malaria prevention for children.
Many commenters on Twitter fired back at Trump, noting that thousands of children could also be saved with the millions of dollars the U.S. government is paying for Donald Trumps security in New York.
WendyBrandes ✔
@WendyBrandes
@EricTrump @Forbes how many lives would your father's security costs in NY save? How about his big tax writeoffs? You should be ashamed.
7:32 PM - 4 Dec 2016
129 Retweets 677 likes
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Nick Bilton ✔
@nickbilton
@EricTrump So could the 24-karat gold-plated seatbelt buckles on your dad's plane. But, Democracy.
4:56 PM - 4 Dec 2016
141 Retweets 1,018 likes
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Julie Laumann
@Zegota42
@EricTrump Your dad's $25 million fraud settlement for Trump U could have saved 36,000 children.His sham charity saves none,unlike Clinton's
8:27 PM - 4 Dec 2016
6 Retweets 21 likes
full article:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/eric-trump-claims-wisconsin-recount-killed-at-least-5000-children-and-gets-pounded-on-twitter/
The Velveteen Ocelot
(120,936 posts)for the cost of Donald Trump's gold toilet? Scrape the gold leaf off all the stuff in his faux-Baroque-whorehouse apartment, sell it and donate the money to children's charities; then we'll talk.
Unless, of course, it's all from a few cans of Rust-Oleum gold spray paint, obtainable for about $4.00 a can at your local hardware store...
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)hamsterjill
(15,510 posts)n/t
Sunriser13
(612 posts)Maybe contributed to the family brain-damage syndrome?
tclambert
(11,136 posts)around my house, so I can be just as ostentatious as he is. I think I'll start with the wastepaper baskets, then some 50-cent Bic pens, paper clips, plastic salt and pepper shakers, toenail clippers, etc. The idea will be to make cheap things LOOK expensive. I think that really captures the spirit of Trumpism.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(120,936 posts)be sure you wait a good long time before you use it, or you'll be stuck there.
I wonder if that ever happened to Trump?
Baitball Blogger
(48,087 posts)But, we can play that game, too. We will save more children in the next four years if Trump isn't President.
And we will probably be right about that.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)Eric Trump makes Barbara Bush look like a social worker in Bangalore.
barbtries
(29,813 posts)she of the infamous "beautiful mind."
aargh
BlueMTexpat
(15,496 posts)Cosmocat
(14,971 posts)This country has ushered in a new era of governance by complete psychopaths.
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)like his father, spends charity money on himself.
George II
(67,782 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)This is a reeeally goooood thing, can't wait to see them go to work on this until we have a new world order with all healthy children everywhere.
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,929 posts)A bit like a Monty Python upper class twit.
tclambert
(11,136 posts)Fighting malaria is one of the Clinton Foundation's main activities. Of course, if she donated to the Trump Foundation . . . no children would be saved from malaria.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)There most certainly has to be other dimensions wherein alternate realities exist. Being filthy rich affords you some sort of bridge between them that one can traverse back and forth on.
Fritz Walter
(4,349 posts)The rotten apple didn't fall far from the diseased tree.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)gordianot
(15,518 posts)Ridiculous
red dog 1
(29,340 posts)I like this response to the nitwit's tweet:
(from @GeoffThorne)
"Dude, shut your hole. The only children you care about are your own"