Sarah Palin was in, um, fine (?) form when she endorsed Donald Trump a few weeks ago. But it was at a later forum in Oklahoma that the vice presidential candidate turned full-time grifter really distinguished herself by suggesting that her son Track, who had just been arrested for domestic violence, was suffering PTSD as a veteran and that it was President Obama's fault.
"They [veterans] have to question if they're respected anymore. It starts from the top," she said. "The question, though, that comes from our own president where they have to look at him and wonder, 'Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we're trying to do to secure America?'"
Which pretty much sounds like blaming President Obama, which she now says she absolutely did not do and how dare Today show hosts ask her about it?
Palin tried to chastise "Today" hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie for asking her why she appeared to lay the blame for her son Track's PTSD at the President's feet, insisting she had agreed to do the interview to talk about Iowa politics and "not to talk about my kids."
"I never blamed President Obama,'' Palin said. "What I have blamed President Obama in doing, though, is this level of disrespect for the U.S. military that is made manifest in getting budgets, in not trying to beef it up and let our military do the job that they are trained to do."
Lauer told viewers there had been no agreement to avoid discussion of Palin's son's arrest or her comments during her endorsement of Trump. […]
"I don't regret any comment I made because I didn't lay PTSD at the foot of the President,'' she said. "I did say, though, and suggested very adamantly, that there is much more that our commander-in-chief could do to prove that he respects our troops and will let them do their job."
Leave it to Palin to make herself the victim of the "lamestream media" in this. Gee John McCain, thanks one more time for foisting this on the nation.