Sarah Palin cites son’s PTSD at Trump rally

During her second speech in stumping for GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump, partial term governor Sarah Palin blamed President Barack Obama for her son Track Palin’s domestic violence arrest.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks to a crowd as she introduces Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Tulsa, Okla., Wednesday, Jan 20, 2016. “And that starts from the top”. And you know, interestingly, Savannah, and this is 100 percent fact, when she came to see me and when she talked to me, and I could see that she liked what we were saying.

Later, Palin added: “When my own son is going through what he goes through coming back, I can certainly relate with the other families who kind of feel the ramifications of some PTSD and the woundedness our soldiers return with”.

Track, who served in Iraq, has been charged with three misdemeanors: assault, interfering with the reporting of domestic violence, and possessing a gun while intoxicated. The charges followed an altercation with his girlfriend at the Palin family’s Wasilia, Alaska, home in which Track, 26, allegedly threatened to shoot himself.

Palin family attorney John Tiemessen declined to comment on the case other than to say in an email to the Associated Press that respect for the family’s privacy is appreciated “as Track receives the help that he and many of our returning veterans need”.

Don’t blame President Obama for the PTSD that Sarah Palin claims her oldest son is battling. Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America?'”Palin said”. She told him that she already called the police in an attempt to calm him down, even though she still had not at that time.

That being said, you could at least argue that this speech was infinitely more coherent than the Trump endorsement she delivered on Tuesday. “I have no idea”, he said, according to CNN.

Trump and Palin did not discuss how the endorsement had come about, but Trump’s national political director, Michael Glassner, previously worked for her. Trump said earlier Tuesday that he doesn’t typically put much stock in endorsements, but said of this one, “I think it could very well result in votes”.

Palin slammed Obama as the “capitulator in chief”.

But Trump said it was his idea for her to address the subject.

He also told NBC he hopes the issue “doesn’t become a portable chew toy in a political campaign”. “Like you guys haven’t tried to do that everyday since that night in ’08 when I was on stage nominated for VP and I got to say, ‘Yeah, I’ll go, send me, you betcha, I’ll serve!’ And like you all, I’m still standin”!”

“I could care less” about Palin’s support for Trump, said Scott Heckart, 49, who said he had made up his mind to caucus for the billionaire businessman and former reality TV star.