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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:46 AM Dec 2016

Eric 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/Clinton’s #Wisconsin vote recount could have saved at least 5,000 children’s 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 Trump’s 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


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Eric Trump claims Wisconsin recount killed at least 5,000 children and gets pounded on Twitter (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2016 OP
How many children's lives could have been saved The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #1
Or him paying taxes those 18 years he skipped! Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 #2
This!!!!!! hamsterjill Dec 2016 #13
Hey, they warn you about inhaling the fumes from that stuff... Sunriser13 Dec 2016 #9
Ooh, you gave me an idea. In honor of President Trump, I'm gonna start spray-painting things gold tclambert Dec 2016 #14
If you decide to spray-paint your toilet gold, The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #18
Deflection move with no merit Baitball Blogger Dec 2016 #3
You know, I always thought that people like Barbara Bush were out of touch with reality.... TwilightZone Dec 2016 #4
i know! barbtries Dec 2016 #7
Absolutely! eom BlueMTexpat Dec 2016 #11
They were mere out of touch plutocrats Cosmocat Dec 2016 #16
This is rich from a guy who... SaschaHM Dec 2016 #5
That and spends tens of thousands of dollars to go to Africa to kill innocent animals for sport! George II Dec 2016 #8
He is signalling, under trump there will be no more starving children in the world. Coyotl Dec 2016 #6
Eric Trump doesn't even look intelligent Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2016 #10
So he's recommending she give the money to the Clinton Foundation? tclambert Dec 2016 #12
This proves it (again) Plucketeer Dec 2016 #15
Thank you, Son of Twitler Fritz Walter Dec 2016 #17
Twitler! Douche doesn't fall far from the bag! lonestarnot Dec 2016 #21
Pure performance art. gordianot Dec 2016 #19
K&R! red dog 1 Dec 2016 #20

The Velveteen Ocelot

(120,936 posts)
1. How many children's lives could have been saved
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 10:51 AM
Dec 2016

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...

Sunriser13

(612 posts)
9. Hey, they warn you about inhaling the fumes from that stuff...
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:11 PM
Dec 2016

Maybe contributed to the family brain-damage syndrome?

tclambert

(11,136 posts)
14. Ooh, you gave me an idea. In honor of President Trump, I'm gonna start spray-painting things gold
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:33 PM
Dec 2016

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)
18. If you decide to spray-paint your toilet gold,
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:49 PM
Dec 2016

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)
3. Deflection move with no merit
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:08 AM
Dec 2016

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)
4. You know, I always thought that people like Barbara Bush were out of touch with reality....
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:19 AM
Dec 2016

Eric Trump makes Barbara Bush look like a social worker in Bangalore.

Cosmocat

(14,971 posts)
16. They were mere out of touch plutocrats
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:38 PM
Dec 2016

This country has ushered in a new era of governance by complete psychopaths.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
6. He is signalling, under trump there will be no more starving children in the world.
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:43 AM
Dec 2016

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.

tclambert

(11,136 posts)
12. So he's recommending she give the money to the Clinton Foundation?
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:22 PM
Dec 2016

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)
15. This proves it (again)
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:37 PM
Dec 2016

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.

red dog 1

(29,340 posts)
20. K&R!
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 03:06 PM
Dec 2016

I like this response to the nitwit's tweet:

(from @GeoffThorne)
"Dude, shut your hole. The only children you care about are your own"

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