When will individuals/groups understand that the vast majority of politician is not there for them but for themselves and that they are only PR pawns – PB/TK
Families say group tied to Trump campaign ‘exploited’ their children’s deaths – By Joshua Eaton / June 3 2017
“Nothing has moved me more deeply than the time I’ve spent with the families of the Remembrance Project,” then-candidate Donald Trump said last year at a high-priced fundraiser for the group, which claims to help families of people killed by undocumented immigrants.
Now, many of those families say the group raised money using their names and stories while they never saw a dime, according to a report by Politico.
“Trump used the Remembrance Project to get to us, and the Remembrance Project also used him,” former Remembrance Project participant Brenda Sparks told Politico.
Sparks’ son died when his motorcycle was in a crash with a car driven by an undocumented immigrant, Politico reported. She spoke at Trump rallies last year alongside several other families involved in the Remembrance Project.
Trump joined forces with the Remembrance Project just three week after he announced his candidacy by calling undocumented immigrants from Mexico “rapists” in June 2015, according to Politico.
“It’s a very sad occasion,” Trump told reporters as he stood flanked by Remembrance Project families at a press conference after the meeting. “I just spent quite a bit of time with these incredible families going over the loss of their children.”
Continue to thinkprogress.org article: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-campaign-remembrance-project-exploitation-claims-8bcf4d52b4ed
