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Eugene

(62,623 posts)
Sat Aug 17, 2019, 01:26 PM Aug 2019

"May God ruin Trump", Tlaib's grandmother says

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS AUGUST 17, 2019 / 10:30 AM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

"May God ruin Trump", Tlaib's grandmother says

Ali Sawafta
4 MIN READ

BEIT UR AL-FAUQA, West Bank (Reuters) - Sitting under an olive tree in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Muftia Tlaib scoffs at the attention she has recently received from the president of the United States.

“May God ruin him,” she says.

Tlaib is the grandmother of U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, at the center of an affair that has drawn Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu together against U.S. Democrats.

On Thursday, bowing to pressure from Trump, Israel barred a visit by Rashida Tlaib and fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar that it had initially said it would allow.

The next day, Israel said it would let Tlaib visit her family in the West Bank on humanitarian grounds - but Tlaib rejected the offer, saying that Israel had imposed restrictions meant to humiliate her..

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/may-god-ruin-trump-tlaibs-grandmother-says-idUSKCN1V70EL





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"May God ruin Trump", Tlaib's grandmother says (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2019 OP
I so agree with Grandma. sinkingfeeling Aug 2019 #1
I join Grandma Tlaib in her wish rurallib Aug 2019 #2
Grandma, you may be far away Polly Hennessey Aug 2019 #3
That makes me wish that I believed! In reality We The People abqtommy Aug 2019 #4
God will send every Trump supporter to the Fifth Circle of Hell. Trump and his inner circle walkingman Aug 2019 #5
Campaign help guss Aug 2019 #6
Sounds like Trumpy soiled his Depnds again. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 #7

walkingman

(8,250 posts)
5. God will send every Trump supporter to the Fifth Circle of Hell. Trump and his inner circle
Sat Aug 17, 2019, 06:11 PM
Aug 2019

are going to the Eighth Circle of Hell.

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