Don Trump (again) says US troops are thieves. Vets explode in anger.

[UCmeNdc]

Donald Trump yesterday, for the second time, appeared to accuse US troops in Iraq of being thieves.

Trump had made the same accusation a year ago, suggesting this wasn’t simply an off-the-cuff mistake. Also, it’s difficult to believe, as the Trump campaign is now alleging, that Trump was referring to Iraq troops, when Trump made the same claim a year ago.

As you can imagine, the troops and vets are not at all pleased with their potentially future commander-in-chief accusing them of being crooks, and “living ver well” after leaving Iraq, when many left Iraq with PTSD and serious injuries.

First, a look at what Trump said, then the response from the troops. Here’s John Harwood of the New York Times and CNBC:




http://americablog.com/2016/06/trump-says-us-troops-thieves-vets-explode-anger.html

[auntpurl]

1. Jesus, this idiot truly does not know when to shut his mouth.

It's like he's trying to alienate every single group of human beings on earth.

[UCmeNdc]

4. Well I think Trump does not know what he is going to say from one minute to the next

Trump just blabs about anything that comes to the front of his head. The only real thing Trump cares about is his own gigantic ego and satisfying that large ego.

[FSogol]

10. A Kurt Vonnegut quote comes to mind:

"Not Even The Creator of the Universe Knew What The Man Was Going to Say Next."

[ailsagirl]

23. LOL

[Grins]

25. And in ONE MONTH, he's going to get the Presidental Daily Brief!

Barring the unforeseen, as the GOP nominee that orange bag of tainted meat is going to get it.

As someone once said, "Now suck on this."

[Else You Are Mad]

2. I am now convinced...

Trump is trying to sabotage his own campaign. No GOP candidate that wants to actually win an election would ever say anything negative about our troops.

[jehop61]

3. This story

Is from last week, not yet another one of his idiotic prouncements. He's been relatively quiet over the past two days. He's a disaster!

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. This kind of thing is pure Late night AM radio

Banter. He gets all of his content from those kind of sources.

[SDJay]

6. He May As Well

just climb up on stage and poop on the American flag at this point. What else is left?

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. And he very well would still come out smelling like roses

He's already passed the "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters" test.

Its disturbingly fascinating the social phenomenon of that kind of blind loyalty, when there is no flip flop or no questionable actions, that can dissuade a voter from changing their minds on a candidate. I'll just stop there.

[SDJay]

8. Idol Worship

It's really never worked out well for the worshipers in the past.

[LanternWaste]

9. I honestly believed Palin was the most bufoonish caricature of a politician ever presented to the e

In 2008, I honestly believed Palin was the most bufoonish caricature of a politician ever presented to the electorate (and yes-- that includes Pres. Fillmore), and that the GOP would learn before it burned.


I was so, so wrong. Trump is the personification of Icarus' grand voyage to the sun.

[FSogol]

11. Palin was just a warm up.

[PJMcK]

27. Quote of the day, LanternWaste!

"Trump is the personification of Icarus' grand voyage to the sun."

Thank you.

[pansypoo53219]

12. RUMP should be pointing to HALIBURTON + NO BID CONTRACTS.

PROFITEERING in the GWB years.
but that should be hillary's answer.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. He also said...

That paying taxes was like throwing money down the drain.

So, military payroll and benefits is throwing money down the drain.

Are you listening, Armed Forces members?

[Scientific]

14. Big Money was stolen - but by Cheney and his Corporate Republican Gangsters & Mercenaries

How Republican to dodge responsibility for stealing - just like all the Republican chickenhawks who dodged military service -- and then to point the fat finger trying to blame our sons and daughters in uniform who are actually serving America.

Republicans show again that they are a party with No Shame and No Honor.

[Scientific]

15. Missing Iraq money may be as much as $18 billion

Ever wonder why the Republicans never investigated this massive, evil, greedy Republican crime against America?

Missing Iraq money may be as much as $18 billion

The pallets of cash in Iraq that the Republicans & cabal stole from the American taxpayers & needy people of Iraq - a crime that Republican so-called "hero" Donald "I got five military deferments. Ha-ha." Trump is now trying to blame our American men and women in uniform:


In 2004, the Bush administration flew twenty billion dollars of shrink-wrapped cash into Iraq on pallets. Now the bulk of that money has disappeared. The funds flown into the war zone were made up of surplus from the UN’s oil-for-food program, as well as money from sales of Iraqi oil and seized Iraqi assets. Recent estimates had the amount of missing money at about $6.6 billion, but according to Al Jazeera, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi says the figure is closer to three times that amount.

http://www.rawstory.com/2011/06/missing-iraq-money-may-be-as-much-as-18-billion/

[TomVilmer]

22. Massive, evil, greedy Republican crime against America???

All of that shrink-wrapped cash was stolen from the people of Iraq. USA did not provide or own any part of it, and that is why they treated it like shit.

[Scientific]

24. Where did the pallets of money come from?

And where did they go?

Republicans have to answer for that.

[yellowcanine]

16. Not that much outrage though. If Hillary had said this........

Imagine the shit storm.

[Scientific]

17. IOKIYAR - Republicans always excuse the crimes of Republicans

No frikken honor in Republican land.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. Republicans have been fucking vets over for years on benefits

Yet many keep lining up to vote for them because, the flag and shit.

[VulgarPoet]

18. ...I didn't think I could hate him any more than I do.

Turns out, I have a much larger capacity for "I hope you get hit by a train" flavored hatred than I thought I did.

[keithbvadu2]

19. Wonder if Sen Tom Cotton backs him up on this?

[LAS14]

21. My theory now is that Trump...

... is trying every way he knows how to lose the nomination. Nothing is bad enough. A recent story by a former staff member suggested that he never wanted to be President. He wanted to come in a respectable second. That sounds believable to me.

[AntiBank]

26. interesting, do you have the link?

[LAS14]

29. Sorry, I don't. I believe...

... I saw it today or maybe yesterday and it must have been in DU.

[Nitram]

28. This can only be proof that Trump will do anything to sabotage his candidacy.

He clearly doesn't want to be president. The whole think has been a publicity and money-making scam from day one.