Trump’s absence from slain Minnesota lawmaker’s funeral goes beyond indifference

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/melissa-hortman-funeral-trump-minnesota-killer-rcna216023

31 comments

  1. He wishes the assassin would have made it a bit further down the list.

    He already showed during Covid that people who didn’t vote for him deserve to die.

  2. This is such a fucking weak headline.

    They want us dead as painfully as possible.

    Stop sanitizing or softening this. This is what they want.

  4. This is what he wanted. He wants violence in america. He wanted dems to be scared. This is all according to the plan.

  5. I wouldn’t want the person who encouraged my murder to be at my funeral. He has no business being there.

  6. “In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

    – Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to
    watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

  8. Stop looking for any compassion sympathy and human kindness. These are monsters. Think Nazis Joseph Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hitler, that’s who you’re dealing with. Treat them like the monsters they are and stop looking for any human emotion other than their rage, anger vengeance, and now murder.

  9. If he had shown up he’d make it about him. Better he was not involved.

  10. From the article: “A responsible leader would have used a political assassination as an opportunity to bring the nation together at a time when political divides are going from rancorous to dangerous. But Trump [pardoned violent Jan. 6 insurrectionists](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-pardons-jan-6-insurrectionists-rcna187412). He treats political violence differently based on who’s doing it and who’s on the receiving end of it.”

    This exactly. When the violence is directed at Trump or his side, then it’s “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Republicans are justified in attacking back. But, when the violence is committed by Trump’s supporters against Democrats, then it’s “It’s not my fault. The Democrats deserved it and brought this violence on themselves.”

  12. He didn’t go because it would have been impossible from him to refrain from showing his enjoyment that some democrats were murdered by one of his cult followers.

    AND – He doesn’t care at all about people being murdered if he can’t exploit it.

    AND- He wants to see more violence committed against the Democratic Party or their voters.

  13. I’m sure he chose to just have a small private celebration.

  14. People need to get with the program. He is the enemy, they were his enemy. He represents the enemy Americans. You don’t usually go to your enemy’s funeral.

  15. He didn’t attend the funeral because he incited the violence to create a climate of fear. He doesn’t want to send mixed messages. He’s as culpable for these murders as he was for January 6th. This is by design.

  16. To be fair, I wouldn’t want the person responsible for my murder, my spouses murder, and my dogs murder, at my funeral either

  19. Him being there wouldn’t have helped. Honestly better that he didn’t. He wouldn’t be sincere to the grief of the situation.

  20. I am sure the people who attended were pleased he didn’t show.

  21. He’s a rude, sick, heartless S.O.B. who sees anyone who isn’t a Trump lackey as an enemy. He is not a patriot and hates over half the American people, including their elected representatives. He is an opportunist and a narcissist with no humanity. What else to know?

  22. It is a complete lack of empathy. This is why even if he is pathetic, he’s dangerous. He has no empathy and no remorse.

  24. Political assassinations should be soundly rebuked by all sides.

  25. Well, it would be a little awkward when he pardons the shooter in a couple years if he went to the funeral now.

  26. If you haven’t guessed by now, he doesn’t give a fuck about anything except himself.

    Also, if you didn’t reach that conclusion, your IQ is probably room temperature, measured in Celsius.

  27. If Obama did this to a republican senator; his absence would be Fox News front page.

  29. I feel his presence would have been a distraction and he would have only made it about himself.

    IMO it’s probably best he stay away from funerals and memorials like this.

  30. Oh wow people are just now realizing that he’s a selfish, self-centered, narcissistic, grandiose piece of crap?

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