Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 03:09 PM Sep 2020

Trump, Biden clash over military support after president's alleged disparagement of fallen troops

The question of support for the nation’s military moved to the center of the campaign Friday as Democrat Joe Biden and President Trump clashed over allegations in a magazine article this week that the president had called dead American service members “suckers” and “losers.”

Biden lambasted the president’s purported remarks as “disgusting” and “un-American” and accused him of having demonstrated “no loyalty to any cause but himself.” He demanded that Trump apologize to the families of fallen troops. Trump denied the report and called it a “hoax.”

“Who the heck does he think he is?” said Biden, whose late son Beau served in Iraq with the Delaware National Guard. “How would you feel if you had a kid in Afghanistan right now? How would you feel if you lost a son or daughter, husband, wife? How would you feel, for real? But you know in your heart, you know in your gut: It’s deplorable.”

The White House mobilized rapidly in hopes of preventing the debate from becoming “a major election issue,” one senior official said. More than 10 current and former senior aides — including national security adviser Robert O’Brien and senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law — vehemently denied the Atlantic’s account of the president’s trip to France in 2018.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-biden-clash-over-military-support-after-presidents-alleged-disparagement-of-fallen-troops/ar-BB18J3Cd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

1 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Trump, Biden clash over military support after president's alleged disparagement of fallen troops (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Edit: 'CONFIRMED disparagement of fallen troops' empedocles Sep 2020 #1
Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Trump, Biden clash over m...