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Disabled Boy’s Mom Clears The Air About Trump, Congress & Obamacare
"... very professional and frustrated ..."

The mother of the boy who became fodder for a misleading attack on President Donald Trump doesn’t care about the media fuss over a video edited to wrongly imply Trump ignored her son at a recent event.

What she cares about is getting Obamacare fixed.

As reported by Western Journalism, author J.K. Rowling was forced to apologize after using an edited video clip to falsely accuse Trump of snubbing Monty Weer during a White House event last week.

Marjorie Kelly Weer, the boy’s mother, said there is someone to blame in Washington, but it is not Trump.

“You want to know who snubbed my son? Congress snubbed my kid in D.C. when they failed to pass meaningful legislation. Everyone missed the point of why we were there in the first place. They didn’t come up with a dynamic plan and they didn’t go out and sell it to the American people. If they have a plan, what is it and where is it?” she said.

If Congress has disappointed her, the Trumps did not.

First lady Melania Trump spoke to Weer and her family on an earlier visit to the White House.

“She was very kind and very gracious,” Weer said. “She didn’t have to take time out of her busy schedule.”

After they returned home, Melania Trump sent Monty a package with 11 books, a book bag, a puzzle, candy, a stuffed bunny and a “Make America Great Again” hat.

On Weer’s second visit, she met the president.

“He came across as very professional and frustrated about what he has to work with in Congress,” she said. “He’s not what they make him out to be in the press.”

“I appreciate people trying to stand up for me and my family but even slinging mud at people like (Rowling) doesn’t move the conversation. I like action, I like movement and I like solving problems,” she said.

Weer said that when the media thought it could get a good anti-Trump story, everyone wanted to talk to her. But when it comes to her problems with Obamacare, it is a different story.

“Where was CNN when we were complaining about health care? That’s why I went with Fox News, they talked to us beforehand,” she said, adding that most media outlets “want to use my family. They saw a potential catfight between me and J.K. Rowling and I’m not giving them that.”

Monty, 3, suffers from spina bifida. Majorie Weer’s South Carolina provider became out of network in 2016, which forced her to go to Boston Children’s Hospital for her son’s yearly check-up. Then she learned that due to problems with Obamacare, the hospital might only accept in-state patients and launched a six-month battle, which she finally won, to gain access.

Weer wondered why if she could adapt and overcome every time she hit a wall, Congress cannot do the same.

“In my case, a ‘no’ can equal death. If you hit a wall, who the heck cares? It’s just a wall, you can work through the impossible. That’s the world I live in,” she said.

Weer criticized the “we can’t” attitude of Congress and said if Congress can’t do its job, the American people need to come up with solutions and push Congress to adopt them.

“We need to be a part of the discussion because it’s our health care, our money and the lives of our family at stake here,” she said. “That’s why I was in Washington. In the middle of changing diapers, I’m trying to come up with ideas that might work too.”

Weer said if this Congress can’t do the job, she will remember.

“Get your job done, or we’ll sit home in 2018,” she said.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/disabled-boys-mom-clears-air-trump-congress-obamacare/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=WJDailyEmail&utm_content=2017-08-05