- Real estate tycoon says US shouldn't send its armies to western Africa unless China and Russia put their own troops at risk
- After a raft of mistakes, Trump says, 'Obama has become immune to "hell to pay"'
- Military men and women will be exposed to Ebola, he told MailOnline, and it's 'morally unfair to the soldiers, and to the soldiers' families'
- Dozens of the 4,000 military personnel deployed to western Africa are now subject to isolation in a quarantine ward on an Italian military base – including their commanding Major General
- The White House could soon be in the position of requiring quarantines for soldiers who had limited contact with Ebola while NOT requiring them for doctors and nurses who cared for patients
PUBLISHED: 20:19 EST, 28 October 2014 | UPDATED: 02:03 EST, 29 October 2014
eal estate tycoon Donald Trump blasted President Barack Obama on Tuesday for his handling of the Ebola crisis overseas, telling MailOnline that putting servicemen and women in close proximity to the deadly virus is 'morally unfair to the soldiers, and to the soldiers' families.'
The perennial Republican maybe-candidate said in an interview that exposure to Ebola is inevitable for the hundreds of U.S. military personnel serving in Liberia.
And it may be only a matter of time, he predicted, before men and women in uniform contract the disease – which kills between 50 and 70 per cent of its victims.
'You're going to see a whole new kind of "hell to pay" if they catch it,' Trump said.
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FIGHTING WORDS: 'Obama has become immune to "hell to pay",' Donand Trump says, skewering the president for what he sees as a 'morally unfair' Ebola mission handed to servicemen and women
STOPPED: U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams (center), commander of U.S. Army Africa, cheered the groundbreaking of an Ebola treatment center in Liberia just two weeks ago – but he's enduring a 21-day quarantine before he can come back to the United States
SUPERVISION: Soldiers on the base in Vicenza, Italy are confined to a housing complex with barracks, a dining hall and a gym, but allowed no outside access – and they must not interact with other personnel at the site
But with a shrug in his voice, he said moral outrage that used to bother the president now seems to roll off his back.
'He has been hit from so many angles, for so many mistakes that he's made,' Trump explained. 'Obama has become immune to "hell to pay".'
Already a group of about 40 soldiers and army officers – including a major general – are languishing in quarantine on an Italian military base.
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