CNN commentator Ana Navarro didn’t hold back when asked about Trump’s racist comments about burying a Latino soldier that were reported in The Atlantic.
This was one of the more disgusting parts of the report, along with Trump saying he needs “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
After using the family for a photo-op, he backed out on paying for the funeral.
In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by his girlfriend, burned Guillén’s body. Guillén’s remains were discovered two months later, buried in a riverbank near the base, after a massive search.
Guillén, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in Houston, and her murder sparked outrage across Texas and beyond. Fort Hood had become known as a particularly perilous assignment for female soldiers, and members of Congress took up the cause of reform. Shortly after her remains were discovered, President Donald Trump himself invited the Guillén family to the White House. With Guillén’s mother seated beside him, Trump spent 25 minutes with the family as television cameras recorded the scene.
