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Here Are The Powerful Stories Of Several Guests Of President Trump Tonight

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President Trump has invited ordinary citizens to be his guests for his State of the Union address tonight, but those ordinary citizens each have poignant and emotional stories to tell.

The daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of Gerald and Sharon David, the elderly Nevada couple whom police say were murdered by an illegal immigrant who broke into their home last month, will attend. In addition to them, 80-year-old Judah Samet, a Jewish man who survived the horrors of a Holocaust death camp as a small boy and escaped being murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh by a crazed anti-Semite only when police stopped him as he parked his car in a handicapped space, will attend. Pittsburgh police officer Timothy Matson, a member of the SWAT team that responded to the shooting who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his leg, will join him.

Grace Eline, a nine-year-old girl who was successfully treated for brain cancer, will be in the gallery, joined by Ashley Evans, a former opioid addict who had relapsed into addiction after she gave birth to her daughter, but is now sober and will rejoin her daughter next week. Joshua Trump, 11, has been bullied incessantly by his schoolmates simply for sharing the president’s last name. Tom Wibberley, the father of Craig Wibberley, a Navy Seaman murdered in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 by terrorists from Al-Qaeda, will also attend.

Alice Johnson, a grandmother who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for drug dealing in 1996, will attend; her sentence was commuted by President Trump at the behest of Kim Kardashian. Johnson’s conviction was her first; some co-conspirators testified her so they could garner plea deals. Johnson has become an ordained minister since being in prison.

Last week, Wilber Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, an El Salvadoran native, was charged with killing the Davids; he admitted to the killing, saying he used a gun he stole from their home. Jerry David was 81; his wife Sherri was 80. President Trump had taken note of the killing, tweeting:

In 1944, Judah Samet was seven years old in Hungary when he and his family were seized by the Gestapo and put on a train to Auschwitz. En route, Czechs blew up the train tracks, forcing the journey to be rerouted to Bergen-Belsen, where 50,000 people died, including Anne Frank and her sister, Margot. Samet told CNN, “In Auschwitz you arrived, in 50 minutes you were dead. You came out the smoke stacks. But in Bergen-Belsen, they killed you by the method of starvation. But my mother saved us all. She divided the rock-hard bread, she broke it down into little pieces and she fed us six times a day.” In spring 2018, he told a group of high school students, “Many people just laid down and died. They knew they were eventually going to die, so why suffer?” He added that many people simply threw themselves into electric fences to die by suicide.

Just prior to the Allies liberating the camp, German officers said 2,500 prisoners had to leave Bergen-Belsen by train; Samet’s mother decided they would get on the train. He asked her later why she had wanted them to leave for an unknown destination; she answered that it was the “difference between the sure thing and the maybe thing.”

Grace Eline, 10, who was diagnosed at the age of nine with germinoma, already personifies her first name; as NJ.com notes, “Grace at an early age decided to ask for charitable donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital rather than birthday presents for herself.” In May 2018, she began treatment for the disease; in October she was named a gold ribbon hero of the American Childhood Cancer Organization in October, which stated, “This little warrior exudes good vibes and positive energy 24/7.” She is currently cancer-free, and loves gymnastics, softball, bicyling, reading, painting and swimming.

Joshua Trump, who is unrelated to President Trump, had to be pulled out of school in Delaware and change his surname (which is his mother’s maiden name) after being bullied repeatedly since President Trump launched his presidential campaign. The boy was bullied in elementary school. Then his father, Robert Berto, homeschooled him for a year, and then when Joshua was reentered in middle school, the bullying started again. His father then changed the boy’s last name to Berto in the school’s database. Joshua’s mother Megan told ABC News, “They curse at him, they call him an idiot, they call him stupid. He said he hates himself, and he hates his last name, and he feels sad all the time, and he doesn’t want to live feeling like that anymore, and as a parent that’s scary.”

Seventeen American sailors were killed in the USS Cole attack; five of them, including Wibberly, were only 19 years old. One of the co-conspirators in the attack, Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al-Badawi, was reportedly killed in a drone strike on January 1, 2019.

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