(10-18-2017, 11:55 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(10-18-2017, 11:34 PM)B2hibry Wrote: Not the first and not the last, but certainly not normal protocol for this event/situation.

So what's the implication, then? You know the story behind this particular fallen soldier, right? Maybe the exceptional circumstances behind this man's death are why a Congresswoman would have been in the car?

That's not to excuse the politicization of this at all. Frankly, if anyone was going to open her mouth, it should have been the widow's decision to talk and the Congresswoman's corroboration, not the other way around. This was not something that was designed from the start to be a political ploy, but it was made into one, and say what you inevitably will to defend Trump, his words, even if out of context, were far less appropriate than what one would expect the commander in chief to say to the relatives of a slain soldier.