Dwyane Wade’s family is grieving today.
A cousin of the pro basketball superstar was shot and killed in Chicago last night while she was walking her baby.
Now, how does an American politician respond to such news? Does he or she offer a word of condolence? A statement of horror at the event?
That depends. If that politician is Donald J. Trump, Republican nominee for president, he sends out a tweet that says in effect, “I told you so!”
That was how Trump reacted overnight to the death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin.
“Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”
Trump’s been seeking to “appeal” to black voters by saying that they live in crime-ridden hell holes that aren’t as safe as some war zones where we’ve deployed troops to fight terrorists.
This tragedy, he said, proves the point he has sought to make.
Nothing at all, not even a family’s profound personal grief, can be off limits for this guy — Trump.
Many of the rest of us are left to shake our heads in utter disbelief.
Again!