Thursday, October 25, 2018

PTSD Veteran and family denied rental over Trump's Wall?

Army veteran won't be renting from Phoenix landlord after a President Trump rant

NBC 12 News
Author: Mike Gonzalez
October 24, 2018
The landlord at first told her he was not accepting anyone receiving government payments because he was afraid Trump's proposed wall along the U.S. border with Mexico would threaten those payments. He has since said he regrets the exchange.
PHOENIX — When Alyssa Gillaspy and her wife reached out to try to rent a house near 89th Avenue and McDowell Road in West Phoenix, she was shocked at the email messages she received from landlord Gary Faulkinbury.

Faulkinbury apparently told her he was not accepting anyone receiving government payments because of President Trump.

“When we inquired on the home and got that back, it was very shocking," said Gillaspy, who is receiving benefits for her post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq.

One of the emails to Gillaspy reads in part: "You stupid [expletive]. It’s called qualification. Trump is causing this not me. Get a job because he’s cutting your benefits and there’s nothing you can do," said Faulkinbury.

Team 12's Mike Gonzalez talked to Gillaspy via Skype from her Olympia, Washington, home.

She was still trying to figure out why the landlord had such a fear that President Trump would pull funding from veterans. Faulkinbury was apparently upset the president is threatening to build a wall on the Mexican border, in turn putting her disability benefits at risk.
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