Trump has dodged many bullets in his deplorable term as President, but he won't get out of this line of fire. Military wives and mothers and fathers are asking for answers about the Russians paying bounties for dead Americans. Trump can tell another hundred of his 20,000 lies denying he knew, but he now has an enemy that will not give up.
In 2011 and again in 2013 I was on a roster to be deployed to Afghanistan. In both cases I did some pre-deployment training. The first time I was cut from the roster when the deployment was reduced in size, the second time the entire deployment was cancelled.
If I had deployed, I planned to blog every day if possible. And if I did, I knew that my main audience would be the wives and mothers and other family members of the soldiers in my unit.
When I deployed the first time and blogged every day, I thought my audience would my friends and family and maybe those who were curious about military service. They were my audience also, but most of the comments I got were from wives and mothers who heard little or nothing from their soldier. They really wanted to know what we ate, where we slept, what we did night and day.
If I had deployed, I planned to blog every day if possible. And if I did, I knew that my main audience would be the wives and mothers and other family members of the soldiers in my unit.
When I deployed the first time and blogged every day, I thought my audience would my friends and family and maybe those who were curious about military service. They were my audience also, but most of the comments I got were from wives and mothers who heard little or nothing from their soldier. They really wanted to know what we ate, where we slept, what we did night and day.
The most popular post I wrote the whole year was about the containers we slept in.
The wives and parents wanted to know about everything and they worried over every news report. If a base was attacked 200 miles away, someone would ask me what happened. I would answer that the attack was 200 miles away. The response would be some variation of, "No one tells me anything."
With more and more reports coming out confirming that both Pentagon and intelligence leaders knew the plot to be true, military wives and parents will demand answers until they get them.
No amount of bullying or whining will make this crisis go away. A grieving parent who feels betrayed is an implacable enemy.
