None Of The Recovering El Paso Victims Wanted To See Trump When He Visited

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 26: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Joshua Holt, members of Holt's family and the congressional delegation of Utah at the U.S. at The White House on May 26, 20... WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 26: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Joshua Holt, members of Holt's family and the congressional delegation of Utah at the U.S. at The White House on May 26, 2018 in Washington, DC. Holt, who had been imprisoned in Venezuela for two years, was released following diplomat efforts by the Trump and Obama administrations. (Photo by Chris Kleponis - Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s communications team wouldn’t allow reporters to accompany him to the hospital in El Paso, Texas where eight victims of Saturday’s mass shooting were still recovering on Wednesday, and now it’s not hard to see why.

According to the Washington Post’s report on Thursday, all of the victims at the University Medical Center refused to see the President when he came to visit.

“Some of them said they didn’t want to meet with the President,” the hospital’s spokesperson told the Post. “Some of them didn’t want any visitors.”

However, the two patients who’d already been discharged reportedly did come back to see Trump.

Trump visited the city amid fury toward the President for his racist anti-immigrant rhetoric, which was largely echoed in the suspected El Paso gunman’s alleged manifesto on the “Hispanic invasion.” Additionally, Trump still owes El Paso more than $400,000 for a campaign rally he held there in February.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who represented El Paso while serving in Congress, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) and El Paso City Councilwoman Alexsandra Annello all said that Trump’s visit was unwelcome.

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  1. …all of the victims at the University Medical Center refused to see the President when he came to visit.

    This is a real head scratcher.

    Perhaps they were being consoled by Michelle and President Obama at the time tRump arrived with his box of paper towels to throw at them.

  2. The fact that Trump is a racist whose rhetoric was swallowed lock, stock and barrel by the shooter is just a coincidence, right?

  3. From the WaPo article:

    Before Trump’s visit Wednesday, however, some of the hospitalized victims accepted visits from a number of city and county elected officials, as well as Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-Tex.) and Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.).

  4. time tRump arrived with his box of paper towels to throw at them.
    time tRump arrived with his box of blood soaked gauze bandages

  5. I think their impudence deserves a Twitter-lashing.

    Ungrateful losers.

    (Good for them)

    ETA: Will he at least tweet out at WaPo for the fake news story - everyone wanted to see him and they all had a great day celebrating gun massacres.

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