The guy should have had an unsent text on his phone...

Ah, that’s how that works! (thank you for the explanation)

The story I read didn’t specify their son’s beneficiary. I misinterpreted a reference to dad’s wife. I don’t have a WaPo subscription and I guess the Huffingtonpost rewrite wasn’t clear. I was really hoping the dad was misunderstood. I saw a pic of the dad and the soldier and the looked so happy.

I thought it was the son’s ex that got the money. The father didn’t have the money for a funeral.

I love that old fashioned practicality!

Please stop suggesting that Pence would be worse than Trump.

Today was a good one! Older man needs a will right away. He has no kids, and he’s leaving everything to the woman he’s marrying on October 31. He’s having surgery on November 1. She’s kind of pushy about making sure she gets the house if something happens to him. I tell her that she has to leave the room while we’re…

As an estate planning attorney, I concur. I hear what people REALLY think about their families. If one parent was left off, there’s a reason.

THIS. I had a student once whose parents hadn’t been together in years, but never got legally divorced. The dad pretty much raised the girl on his own. Unfortunately he died suddenly when the girl was still a teenager. He had no will, so his wife automatically got his pension, and spent it ALL within a few weeks on a…

As an estate planning attorney, I concur. I hear what people REALLY think about their families. If one parent was left off, there’s a reason.

This also occurred to me. Like, there could have been a reason the father didn’t get any of the money. If Trump wants to throw pocket change [for him] at people, he can do that, but don’t make a mess of it by saying you’ll send it, then don’t, then when it’s public say it’s in the mail. And definitely don’t expect…

Yeah, I was pretty disgusted at that “look at how evil my ex is because she took all the death benefits!” approach (and probably knew Trump would go for it), when the mother was *not* the one who decided who got the death benefits.

Yeah, the father is kind of a dick himself. He complained that the soldier’s government life insurance ($100K) was all going to the mother and none to him, but that was the soldier’s decision. He could have named his father as beneficiary (or split the benefit), but chose to name his mom. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be…

That would explain her setting herself up to get owned with this.

The White House’s defense is literally “the check is in the mail.”

So, Tomi Lahren has just made public her deep humiliation/sub kink?

But has he paid it? “The check has been sent” sounds a lot like “The letters to the fallen soldiers have gone out” (they hadn’t).

Hey give him a break, this will be the first time he’s ever paid anyone he owes money to.

“It’s disgusting that the media is taking something that should be recognized as a generous and sincere gesture, made privately by the President, and using it to advance the media’s biased agenda.”