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Mom Embraces #WalkAway equally Libs Set on Her Thanking Eric Trump for Cancer Donation

A mother who was attacked for thanking Eric Trump for his donations to St. Jude's Children'due south Infirmary, which treats childhood cancer and other serious diseases, has joined the #WalkAway movement of former liberals explaining why she left the Democrats.

Sherrie Hopper, host of the 19 Strong Evidence on KWAM-AM in Memphis, Tennessee, became the target of online attacks after a late-June tweet thanking the president'due south son for his piece of work with the hospital.

"Thanks for your commitment to St. Jude," Hopper tweeted to Trump. "This St. Jude family is eternally grateful."

It wasn't long, she says, before she was attacked with waves of hate when Trump responded.

In her video, Hopper explained that her nephew Zachary had been treated by the infirmary, which is in Memphis, for cancer.

"Then I vow to say thank you to anybody who helps brand that infirmary run," Hopper said.

Instead, "the hate that has come out is unreal. Unreal."

That included claims she didn't really have a nephew who was treated at the infirmary, and — but, of class — claims that she was a Russian bot. You know, a Russian bot with a radio testify.

Practice you support the #WalkAway move?

Yeah: 98% (341 Votes)

No: ii% (vii Votes)

Those Russian bots, they are talented nowadays. Maybe they can even get one to supersede Joy Reid on MSNBC. Or mayhap Joy Reidis a Russian bot! I think we may have stumbled upon something hither.

Anyway, Hopper struck back by condign the latest person to join the viral #WalkAway entrada.

(Past early Monday morning, this video had been removed for "violating YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content," according to the explanation provided by YouTube. In that location was, however, no nudity or sexual content in the video when we watched it before it was taken downwards. — Ed. note)

"This whole matter that is going on with this … the (vitriol), the aroused … the nastiness, just the hate that is surrounding the president and his family unit and just anybody who is affiliated with him at all is just … it'southward just atrocious," Hopper said.

"Now you're gonna assail a charity? Y'all're gonna assault a St. Jude family, someone who went through hell for four years?" Hopper said.

"Come on at present. Then I'm seeing where they just have no boundaries. They don't care. They take no conscience (whatsoever)."

"I don't empathize how we take become then hateful in our society. I don't become information technology and all I did was say thank yous," she added while noting that the back up "greatly outnumbered the nastiness."

"That was me. The #WalkAway folks have been amazing and now their back up has greatly outnumbered the nastiness," she later tweeted. "They even tracked down his fundraiser for St. Jude and donated. I am in awe."

Wow. It almost seems that conservatives are more than charitable than liberals. What a concept.

C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and earth affairs, he'due south written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.

C. Douglas Golden is a author who splits his time betwixt the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and globe affairs, he's written for Bourgeois Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, java, Formula Ane and football (of both American and world varieties).

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Morristown, New Jersey

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Cosmic University of America

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English, Spanish

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American Politics, World Politics, Civilization