Trump's plan to surprise the parents of a slain British teen was an embarrassingly tone-deaf, failed publicity stunt

You can almost imagine the reality-show excitement that surely went into the ill-considered plan to introduce Anne Sacoolas, the American diplomatic wife who killed 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry Dunn when she drove down the wrong side of an English lane in August, to Dunn’s grieving parents. Sacoolas left the U.K. in early September under diplomatic-immunity protections and has not been seen in public since.

The Dunn family, now in the United States to drum up support to send Sacoolas back to the U.K. to face justice, had accepted an “urgent” invitation by the White House from National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, to visit Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night.

President Trump said Wednesday that he had arranged the meeting at the request of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Speaking at a joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, he described the encounter as “beautiful in a certain way,” adding that he expressed condolences “on behalf of our country. ”

He then admitted that he tried to get the family to meet Sacoolas, who was waiting in an adjacent room. “I offered to bring the person in question in,” he said. “And they weren’t ready for it.”

Trump, it seems, thought he could convince the Dunns to meet the woman who killed their son, and would do so by opening a side door through which she would walk. The whole scene would be captured by a pool of photographers who had been summoned for the meeting.

But the Dunns would have none of it and refused to meet her. Dunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said that the family felt “ambushed” when the “bombshell” was dropped that Sacoolas was next door.

They had envisioned meeting her one day, but as Seiger told The Daily Beast, “only on British soil” and “only with mediators, counselors, and their legal team in tow.”

'Wolfie wrote:

To think that it could be so easily fixed by the US...

Point out that the British police were mistaken when they let her go under the "misapprehension" that her crimes were protected by her hubbie's 'diplomatic immunity';

Deny her any continuing faux "diplomatic" protection;

Arrest her, and extradite her back to Britain;

And 'let justice take its course'..


True to form, though, the US gov't keeps on tripping over their own inbred arrogance, once again deluding themselves that they are above anyone or anything else --  and especially so wherever their rich chums/buddies/mates are concerned.

'Wolfie wrote:

To think that it could be so easily fixed by the US...

Point out that the British police were mistaken when they let her go under the "misapprehension" that her crimes were protected by her hubbie's 'diplomatic immunity';

Deny her any continuing faux "diplomatic" protection;

Arrest her, and extradite her back to Britain;

And 'let justice take its course'..


True to form, though, the US gov't keeps on tripping over their own inbred arrogance, once again deluding themselves that they are above anyone or anything else --  and especially so wherever their rich chums/buddies/mates are concerned.