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  • Trump Suggested Some With Disabilities ‘Should Just Die,’ Nephew Says

    Trump Suggested Some With Disabilities ‘Should Just Die,’ Nephew Says

    Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich. last weekend. (Neo Hopkins/The Detroit News/TNS)

    by Michelle Diament | July 25, 2024 disabilityscoop

    In a new book, Donald Trump’s nephew Fred C. Trump III says that the former president told him that people like his son, who has intellectual and developmental disabilities, “should just die.”

    The claim comes in Fred Trump’s memoir “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got to Be This Way” that is set to be released next week. An excerpt was published by Time on Wednesday.

    Fred Trump, the son of Donald Trump’s late brother Fred Trump Jr., said that he saw his uncle being in the White House as an opportunity to advocate for housing support and other needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities like his son William, 25.

    After the 45-minute Oval Office meeting concluded, Fred Trump said his uncle asked to see him.

    “I thought he had been touched by what the doctor and advocates in the meeting had just shared about their journey with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong,” Fred Trump wrote.

    “Those people,” Fred Trump said his uncle told him, “the shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

    Not knowing what to say, Fred Trump said he “turned and walked away.”

    On another occasion, Fred Trump said he reached out to his uncle to ask for help with a medical fund that the family had set up for his son that was running low. After explaining the situation, Fred Trump recounts that the former president told him “I don’t know,” then let out a sigh and said, “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

    The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Disability Scoop about Fred Trump’s claims. Time also said that it asked the former president to respond and received no reply.

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  • Don Tassone releases new book

    Don Tassone releases new book

    Loveland, Ohio – After a long career in the corporate world, Don Tassone again returned to his creative writing roots and again released a new book, Journeys Within. He is the author of two novels and eight short story collections. Don and his wife Liz are longtime Loveland residents. They have four children.

    Below is the lead on Amazon where you can purchase Don’s short story collection called Journeys Within that has just been published by Rochak Publishing. The book is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and will soon be sold at Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Rookwood) and The Bookmatters (Milford).

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      Journeys Within features an eclectic mix of 30 new short stories. Unexpected events prompt the characters in many of these stories to take a fresh look at their lives and their choices. What they discover sets them on a new path.

        A violin virtuoso whose life has been saved by music is called to share his gift with those caught in a civil war. A chance meeting of a retired woman and a young man, both feeling lost, leads them to re-examine their purpose. Nearly killed in a plane crash, a lifelong bully finds himself at the mercy of others.

        Some of these stories touch on current issues and events. All are stories for our time.

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    Journeys Within is Don’s eighth short story collection and tenth book. His first novella, The Liberation of Jacob Novak, will be published in 2025.

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  • Don Tassone releases new book of bite-size stories based on everyday themes

    Don Tassone releases new book of bite-size stories based on everyday themes

    Don Tassone

    Loveland, Ohio – After a long career in the corporate world, Don Tassone returned to his creative writing roots. He is the author of two novels and seven short story collections. Don and his wife Liz live in Loveland, Ohio. They have four children.

    Tassone said, “I’m delighted to let you know my new short story collection, Musings, has just been published.” 

    Tassone continued, “The 75 new stories in this collection come from my own musings about real-life happenings. I hope they show what pausing to reflect can reveal and invite a closer look at the passing parade of events through our daily lives.” They are bite-size stories based on everyday themes.

    You can buy Musings here.

    Read more about Don Tassone and the other books he has published by visiting his website. His books include two novels and seven short story collections.