Post by Logan on Jan 20, 2016 18:01:36 GMT -6
Sarah Palin blames son's domestic violence arrest on lack of leadership from Obama lack of leadership from Obama
A day after her endorsement of Donald Trump, Sarah Palin hit the campaign trail with the billionaire businessman, and she sought to tie President Obama's treatment of veterans to the recent arrest of her son on a domestic violence charge.
Palin's son, Track, 26, was arrested this week in a domestic violence case in which his girlfriend said he had an AR-15 assault rifle and that she was afraid he would shoot himself with it. Track Palin, a veteran of the U.S. Army, served in Iraq.
"Going through what we’re going through today with my son, a combat vet ... like so many others, they come back a bit different, they come back hardened," his mother said Wednesday at a rally alongside Trump in Tulsa, Okla. "They come back wondering if there is that respect for what their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to the country."
Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential pick of Republican nominee John McCain, accused Obama of failing to provide veterans with adequate care.
Continued at www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-01202016-htmlstory.html#1000 .