Here's my Trump CD.
And I was in a hurry to get this thing done.
I wrote the original Trump Train song.
And there's a song on here called Build The Wall.
America's Choice, Save Our Nation.
Kraig followed Trump to 45 rallies,
supporting him all along.
But since then his support has waned.
We met up with him in his trailer in upstate New York
in one of the only counties in New York
where Trump got over 60 percent of the vote.
Make America Great Again means to me.
Well it would be great if I could get my son back.
Kraig says his son Rob struggled
with heroin and opioid addiction for years.
Rob died from an overdose in 2014.
I called out his name
but he didn't answer.
So at that point in time I went right
in his bedroom. That's when I found my son
not breathing, in his bed
with a book on his chest like
he just finished reading it.
And that was pretty much the
end of that portion of my life.
This is something my son wrote to me.
And says I love my
whole family.
With my whole heart.
If you're finding this I'm either dead
or in jail.
I just didn't want to deal
with my life.
and bull sh-t anymore.
Later.
Love always.
He signed it Rob,
then he didn't like the way he did it
so he signed it again, neatly.
Kraig is from an area that's been particularly
stricken by the opioid crisis.
Two years after his son's death, Kraig
found something that he thought could help other parents
avoid the pain he was forced to go through.
And this is what started it all.
This portrait was in a in a warehouse.
There it was and what a bizarre thing to
see, this 8 foot by 15 foot painting.
It was good.
It was very detailed.
You can imagine eight foot by 15 foot of this.
That's the name of the painting
Unafraid and Unashamed.
That portrait had such an effect on
Kraig, he followed its painter to
Iowa for a Trump rally.
It was in Urbandale, Iowa, January 15, 2016.
And I was right up front.
Any questions?
Go ahead. Go ahead.
Raised my hand.
I asked if he became president.
What would he do to combat the
ongoing heroin epidemic.
By that time I was crying.
It was very emotional for me.
Understand this is just
shy of two years
from the date my
son Rob died.
It's a tough deal.
Come on.
That's a tough deal.
He was very compassionate
and came out very convincing came
out from behind the podium to address
my question.
And he's a great father.
I can see it.
And your son is proud of you.
Your son is proud of you.
You know he said he was going to help
with developing rehab centers
and getting more rehab centers more
treatment centers through health care.
He understands that you know there's
a big big problem that was
top on his list to tackle
It's tough stuff it's tough stuff.
And it could be stopped.
That one interaction led to Kraig's
journey on the campaign trail
I enjoyed meeting the people on the
trail and I really enjoyed because
I thought I had a I thought I was
on the right.
The right path and doing the right thing.
What he talked about the opioid
crisis, wanting to tackle that.
It was what kept us going, it was what kept me going.
And as I met these people a lot
of people at the rallies that were there
for the same reason you know
they lost their son
or daughter.
The only thing I do that
gives me a purpose is
when I can talk to people who lost loved ones.
and tell them how I deal with it, it doesn't go away.
But then.
The first health care bill of the Trump administration was released.
It never passed
but it was set to repeal
and replace Obamacare.
Kraig said it didn't dedicate nearly
enough to the opioid crisis.
No matter what
Trump had promised a crying father
just months earlier.
That's when I first realized this is who he was.
He didn't care about opioid addiction.
He didn't care about health care.
Kraig thought back to the first moment he met Trump.
Candidate Trump consoles
father who lost son to heroin,
there was headlines everywhere, it helped him tremendously.
Exploiting my personal story
and trying to make the American people think
that he actually cares about this issue
you take care of yourself take care of yourself.
It's very cool.
I bet he was a great boy.
Thank you man.
That's probably why he said thank you.
He knew I was going to help him.
I didn't even have to think about it.
I just said you know what.
I can't believe these treatment centers
are getting closed down, rehab center
closed down. Anything that had Obama stamped on it.
Good or bad, anything that had Obama,
Was it Obama? Was it good?
Well, we'll redo it, call it Trumpcare.
It just doesn't seem that Mr.
Trump is so passionate about the fight
against the opioid crisis because he's
not letting loose the money
He's cutting money from funding that's
already there that's helping the opioid
crisis.
How is he going to give all these
tax credits by cutting government
subsidies you know, just cutting them out.
He's changed so many times.
He'll change from one city to another.
I went to 45 rallies.
The truth of the matter is the president
is like any other politician.
He will look in somebody's eyes.
He's very charismatic
and he'll tell them what they want to hear so
that they can jump on his bandwagon and vote for him.
But in reality you look at what he's gotten
done and everything he's been trying to
do has just failed.
Kraig says he has brought to Trump by grief
over the opioid crisis.
But that obviously wasn't
the only issue raised on the campaign trail.
When you were travelling with the campaign.
How did you feel when he said things about the Muslim
community and the immigrant community.
Aw let me tell you something
Comments like that. We want to ban the Moslems.
These are the things that are very
very difficult to turn your head on.
You know I didn't agree
with any of that at all.
Those are things just really
turned me off.
You know the negative comments the
comments about you know all
immigrants are drug dealers
rapists murderers, there might be a few.
He knows there's a very
high percentage of Americans that
are racist
and you know whether they're being against
Latino, it doesnt matter.
or against their religion, against a color.
But he got them.
Talk about Trump supporters, the diehard
Trump supporters.
They will stop at nothing.
They treat him like their
losing football team.
No matter what he does,
no matter what he fails at, it doesn't
matter. That's their guy.
I was there for the opioid crisis.
I was there for his stance on that.
I believed him.
As far as him parading these other people
on stage and whatnot it didn't matter
what he did as far as the money was
going to be there.
And that's what it all comes down to
When I think about the policies
that could have been put in place that could
help people like my son.
First of all I guess it would be to keep
what was working, not to shut down
the places that were already in place
because they had Obama on them.
What would have helped my son would be.
To have.
Centers that were set up for.
Kids who have problems.
My son would have been the leader of that.
My son who worked on this little fill right here.
with the little dozer.
And he's driven that truck.
Kraig may have lost his faith in the president
but he hasn't lost faith in the political process
as a whole.
Who does he think can attract voters
like him in 2020?
Addiction with the heroin and
opioid has no boundaries
And it gets into lower class,
middle class, upper class, it's just there.
There's one person that really
is compassionate about the people.
And that is Senator
Elizabeth Warren.
I want to be on her team so bad bad.
And while he may be done with Trump
he isn't done with music.
This is his most recent song
written from letters he had from his son.
He was all that I had lived for.
He's everything I dreamed.
He was hide & seek and make believe.
He was Captain Hook and knots in trees
God show me he's all that I need.
Memories of this.
Cherished memories.
That's about all a man has, you know,
when he lost everything he wanted, is memories.
Life goes on.
And.
I've got a jeep in the creek I've got to get out.