Which GOP Candidate Helped Sergeant Tahmooressi After He Was Finally Freed

[Bob Pelini_]

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/08/399...Owned&utm_term=ijreview&utm_campaign=Politics

The candidate, Donald Trump, acknowledged Sustersen’s activism at a town hall earlier this week.

He said:

We don’t have a good relationship with Mexico. Remember Sergeant Tahmooressi, they kept him in jail, we couldn’t get him out. We had a president that wanted to make a phone call. He was in that jail, rotting in that jail and I helped him with Greta and some people, and I helped him financially.

And finally he got out. But he was in there so long. By the way without her, he’d probably still be there.”

As it turns out, Trump sent Tahmooressi a big check to help get him back on his feet.

Donald J. Trump

✔ @realDonaldTrump


It is my great honor to send $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi. #marinefreed


One thing Trump has said while on the campaign trail is that our “veterans are treated like third-class citizens.”

Hats off to Mr. Trump for helping a veteran who was truly in need.

 

[gusto79]

I'd have a lot more respect for trump doing that if he hadn't tweeted that he had done it.

 

[TexMichFan]

I'd have a lot more respect for trump doing that if he hadn't tweeted that he had done it.

I don't care if he makes it a campaign commercial it was a great gesture on his part. Lots not to like about Trump but this is not one of them.

 

[Huey Grey]

Hate to break it to you, but Mexico had every right to jail this prick. Fact is that he was in and out of Mexico prior to getting caught and just chose to ignore their laws.