Donald Trump Jr.’s Planned Prairie Dog Hunt In Montana Prompts Backlash

Donald Trump, Jr., son of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, lifts his fist after speaking during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Tuesday, July 19, 2016. (AP Photo/J. S... Donald Trump, Jr., son of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, lifts his fist after speaking during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Tuesday, July 19, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. will target more than just Montana’s Republican voters when he helps technology entrepreneur Greg Gianforte campaign for an open U.S. House seat.

A prairie dog hunt is also on the agenda for the four-city tour for President Donald Trump’s son that starts Friday.

Gianforte says nothing is more fun than an afternoon shooting the rodents considered pests because they eat crops. Trump’s son is an avid hunter.

He is lending star power to Gianforte’s campaign against Democrat Rob Quist in the May 25 election.

The Humane Society of the United States condemned the hunt.

Lindsey Sterling Krank is the group’s Prairie Dog Coalition director and says female prairie dogs are now nursing offspring.

She says she would love to take Trump to take pictures of prairie dogs.

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  1. Jesus fuck but that man is a waste of skin. He and his ilk are a festering cancer on this planet.

  2. Avatar for zoran zoran says:

    Ah look—The Trump family wildlife serial killer wants to butcher some nursing mothers. . . .
    Not loving the nursing mothers-- huh? I guess he figures those mammary glands are for something else.
    Like father, like son . . . .

  3. Don*t worry , the dogs will be doped before he kills them so they don`t attack him .

  4. This chapped my hide when I heard about it, still does, and here’s why: I have 80 acres of undeveloped land in Wyoming with wild horses, antelope, coyote, jackrabbits and a shit ton of prairie dogs. I love watching and filming them. My land backs up to BLM land where I can’t do a damn thing about what happens there. I hear guns going off all summer and I know they’re shooting the prairie dogs - I’ve hiked up there and seen dozens of little dead bodies rotting in the sun. Only a bs coward shoots prairie dogs. But we knew that about this jerk already.

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