I actually wondered if Sarah Palin would bring it around to this. A few nights ago, Sarah Palin’s oldest kid, 26-year-old Track Palin, was arrested in the family’s Wasilla home. You can read Gawker’s extensive coverage here (they must have FOIA’d the arrest report). He punched his girlfriend in the face and was acting reckless with an automatic weapon. It seemed like alcohol was involved. Track Palin was arrested and charged with three Class A misdemeanors. As followers of the Palin family probably know, Track is also a veteran who served one tour of duty in Iraq. So when Sarah Palin got around to addressing her son’s arrest, she brought it around to his service and something something it’s Obama’s fault.

Sarah Palin addressed “the elephant in the room” at a rally for Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, suggesting that PTSD, as well as President Obama’s lack of “respect” for veterans, each played roles in her son Track’s domestic violence arrest.

“I can talk personally about this. I guess it’s kind of the elephant in the room – because my own family, going through what we’re going through today with my son, a combat vet having served in a Stryker brigade fighting for you all, America, in the war zone,” Palin said at the event, where she endorsed Trump for president. “But my son, like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened.”

Track, 26, Palin’s oldest son who served in Iraq, was arrested in the family’s hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, on Monday and charged with three Class A misdemeanors: assault in the fourth degree (domestic violence), interfering with the report of a domestic violence crime and possessing weapons while intoxicated, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE. Track’s girlfriend reportedly told police he punched her in the face, kicked her in the knee and threatened to commit suicide with an AR-15 rifle, according to NBC News.

Palin did not explicitly point the finger at Obama in her speech but said veterans are forced to look at “our own president” and “wonder, ‘Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America and to secure the freedoms that have been bequeathed us?’ They come back wondering if there is that respect for what their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military have given so sacrificially to this country, and that starts at the top,” she continued. “It’s a shame that our military personnel even have to question, have to wonder if they’re respected anymore. It starts from the top.”

“So when my own son is going through what he goes through coming back, I can certainly relate with other families who kind of feel these ramifications of PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with, and it makes me realize more than ever, it is now or never for the sake of America’s finest that we’ll have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them,” she said.

[From People]

Sigh… I believe it’s more than possible that Track Palin has PTSD or some kind of post-combat disorder. I also believe it’s a possibility that Sarah Palin is cloaking herself and her family in the American flag as a craven and pathetic way of defending her son’s physical abuse of a girlfriend. And while Pres. Obama could do more for veterans and should do more for veterans, it’s not like Obama is the only one to blame. Especially since… um, Track Palin served in Iraq when Pres. Bush was in office.

Also – if Sarah Palin was really so concerned about her son and his PTSD, why does the Palin family still let Track have access to guns? Something something Obama, I bet.

(PS… I fell down the Palin rabbit hole reading this piece about Track.)

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