https://www.thedodo.com/trump-speaks-on-sons-hunting-1275724124.html
Unfortunately for one Republican presidential hopeful, the answer is: his sons.
Donald Trump was forced to weigh in on the issue this week after a gory photo of his trophy hunting sons resurfaced online, tying his family to the very practice that has sparked fierce backlash in recent days. When asked for his response at a press conference in Scotland this week, Trump was reportedly far from condemning of the fact that his sons had a hobby of killing innocent animals, too.
“My sons love to hunt,” The Telegraph and The Daily Mail report Trump said, though he reportedly refused to directly address shooting endangered animals. “They are members of the NRA, very proudly. I am a big believer in the Second Amendment. But my sons are hunters, Eric is a hunter and I would say he puts it on a par with golf, if not ahead of golf. My other son, Don, is a hunter. They’re great marksman, great shots, they love it. I em, like golf. I don’t do that.”
As benign as he makes it sound, Trump’s sons are hardly run-of-the-mill hunters. The family’s fortune has apparently been used to fund safaris to Africa, targeting beloved animals like elephants and leopards — hunting trips that can range in the tens of thousands of dollars.
While the senior Trump has stated before that he’s not a believer in hunting, his unwillingness to discourage the practice outright given the chance stands in contrast to the reaction of other public figures.
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I’m glad The Donald doesn’t hunt. He’s too busy shooting off his mouth instead.
Good point!
What should he have said? He’s probably pretty embarrassed. Should he publicly condemn his own sons? I hate what they did, but how should he have handled it?
I thought he had distanced himself from the kids’ hunting escapades. I’ll never forget when one of them cut off the elephant’s or rhino’s tail and held it up for the camera.
I wish that Palmer would be dropped off right on President Mugabe’s doorstep! He claims to have had it with ‘foreign vandals’ marauding Zimbabwe’s wildlife. A better description could not be found:
http://news.sky.com/story/1533438/mugabe-blames-foreign-vandals-for-lions-death
Maybe someone will hunt The Donald. With that hair, he could be mistaken for a wild animal.
I was afraid that whatever that is on his head was something his sons hunted. I’m glad it isn’t.
Ha ha ha.
It looks like a kind of fungus.
Donald… that’s not a defense, openly admitting your brood gets off on killing is not going to make people any happier about their actions… then again their actions are not defendable so…
The second amendment is to allow people to carry firearms for a *well-regulated* militia to assist the military and law enforcement forces should the need arise and to oppose tyranny, say the invasion/occupation of the US by an outside force or to overthrow an oppressive government (guilty of genocide, dehumanisation and whatnot). I can not believe how many people can not understand that.