Crime & Safety

Portland Man Warns of Trump's "Tiny, Baby Hands"

Henry Kraemer says there may be no greater threat facing the country.

Saying that Donald Trump's "tiny, baby hands" are a national security threat, Henry Kraemer of Portland has started a political action committee to educate the country.

"People talk about whether Trump has the temperament to be president but that's not the issue," Kraemer told Patch. "The issue is imagine, he had the nuclear codes and needed to use them.

"The question becomes: can his stubby little fingers even push the buttons."

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Kraemer's PAC capitalizes on a controversy that started when Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) attacked Trump, implying that the size of Trump's hands might signal other anatomical deficiencies.

Kraemer says they finally got their paperwork in with the FEC and everything approved for their website to start taking donations late Tuesday.

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He says they plan to use whatever money they raise to take out whatever advertisements they can afford.

"People around the country have been sitting on their regular-sized hands long enough," said Kraemer. "We've let Trump lie about his tiny, baby hands long enough.

"Imagine if he is in the White House and the phone rings at 3AM. Can he even get his hands around the receiver?"

Trump, for his part, chose not to let the slight slide and has brought it up again and again, talking about all of his hands's accomplishments, including how they hit a golf ball 285 yards. Really.

The size of Trump's hands go back to the 1980s when Spy Magazine referred to him as a "short-fingered vulgarian."

Graydon Carter, who was one of the editors of the magazine, has said in recent interviews that Trump still sends him pictures of his hands from magazines with his hands circled. This is 30 years later, by the way.

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