President Donald Trump’s cruelty knows no bounds. Not only is he refusing to help Democratic governors battle the coronavirus pandemic out of sheer pettiness, he once literally denied medical care to a baby over a personal grudge.
Seriously.
New York, California, Washington and Michigan are all pleading with the federal government for help securing desperately-needed medical supplies such as ventilators to care for the overwhelming number of patients. But Trump is busy attacking them and even told Vice President Mike Pence not to take their calls because they aren’t kissing his a** enough to deserve help.
Well, it turns out Trump’s deranged love of retaliation is even more deranged, according to a New York Times report in 2016 revealing that he stopped paying medical bills for a baby born with cerebral palsy over 20 years ago in revenge after his nephew, Fred III — the son of Trump’s late-brother Fred Jr. — filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s father Fred Trump Sr’s will.
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The NYT report states:
Freddy’s son, Fred III, spoke at the funeral, and that night, his wife went into labor with their son, who developed seizures that led to cerebral palsy. The Trump family promised that it would take care of the medical bills.
Then came the unveiling of Fred Sr.’s will, which Donald had helped draft. It divided the bulk of the inheritance, at least $20 million, among his children and their descendants, ‘other than my son Fred C. Trump Jr.'”
Fred Jr’s children challenged the will in court, alleging that Donald persuaded his ill father to leave them out of it and deny them an inheritance. Rather than act like an adult, Trump took his anger out on the innocent child, and even admitted it during an interview with the Times.
Freddy’s children sued, claiming that an earlier version of the will had entitled them to their father’s share of the estate, but that Donald and his siblings had used ‘undue influence’ over their grandfather, who had dementia, to cut them out.
A week later, Mr. Trump retaliated by withdrawing the medical benefits critical to his nephew’s infant child. ‘I was angry because they sued,’ he explained during last week’s interview.”
Again, Trump retaliated against his brother’s children by halting medical payments on care for a baby with cerebral palsy. It does not get any more petty and vicious than that. And this is the same sorry excuse for a human being that is currently punishing millions of Americans across the country just because they have Democratic governors who won’t sing his praises.
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