Besides the Daily Beast trying to dig up another old news story on Donald Trump in order to vilify him, they also chose to sensationalize hunts that are completely legal. Oh, and by the way, the dumbass who wrote this post for the Daily Beast doesn’t know the difference between a leopard and a cheetah.
Back in 2012, photos surfaced of the elder Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, proudly posing with the carcasses of dead animals they hunted while on a big-game hunting expedition in Africa. The photos showed Donald and Eric posing with a lifeless cheetah, Donald clenching a knife along with the bloody, sawed-off tail of an elephant, and the pair posing next to a crocodile hanging from a noose off of a tree.
The Trump boys were hunting in Zimbabwe—the same country where Cecil was killed—and though Zimbabwean animal conservation groups looked into the incident, the hunt was deemed perfectly legal. Once the photos went viral online, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted (and then deleted): “Not a PR move I didn’t give the pics but I have no shame about them either. I HUNT & EAT game.”
Later, Donald Jr. clarified his thoughts on the big-game hunt in an interview withDeer & Hunting magazine in August 2012.
“I think what made it sort of a bigger story and kind of national and even global news was that I didn’t do what a lot of other people do, which is immediately start apologizing for what I am and that I’m a hunter and all this,” Donald Jr. told Deer & Hunter. “I kinda said, ‘No, I am what I am. I did all those things. I have no regrets about it.’”
Read more: The Daily Beast
How quickly the press forgot about Donald Trumps spoiled kids being exotic animal killers but I didn't. #CecilTheLion pic.twitter.com/nVEcY0Q62Q
— Meghan Chavalier (@MeghanChavalier) July 28, 2015
@EricTrump @apprenticenbc whatever horrid crocodile killer. pic.twitter.com/PW5MUN4pj5 Eric and Donald trump jr animal killers hunters
— . (@anotheraka) April 1, 2013
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