Trump-loving special education teacher 'forgives' him for mocking people with disabilities

The Atlantic's John Hendrickson recently traveled to a Trump rally to see how his supporters felt about him mocking people with disabilities, such as when he mimicked President Joe Biden's stutter or when he did an impression of reporter Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital joint condition.

Many supporters told Hendrickson they weren't fond of Trump mocking people with disabilities, but they came up with all kinds of ways to rationalize his behavior.

“I think he’s got every right to do whatever he wants to do at this point,” a Trump fan named Todd Rossbach said. “The level of, uh, cruelness, may seem tough, but they’re being very cruel with him, so it seems justified.”

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Cheryl Beverly, a Trump supporter with a learning disability herself, told Hendrickson that seeing Trump mock people's disabilities was personally hurtful, but she separated those feelings from her intention to vote for him this fall.

She also told Hendrickson that she'd even come up with a way to rationalize Trump's attacks on people with disabilities to children.

“You’re just finding a way for you to become the winner and they become the loser,” she said she'd tell a child who questioned her about Trump's mockery. “It’s just trash-talking.”

A special education teacher who only wished to be identified as "Shana," meanwhile, chalked Trump's ridicule of others' disabilities as an honest mistake, even though he has done so on multiple occasions and has never shown any remorse for it.

"I would still support him because I feel like people make mistakes," she explained. "They say things they shouldn’t say. And I feel like God is the judge on that, you know, and that we’re to forgive him."

Read the whole report at this link.

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