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Showing Original Post only (View all)'Unprecedented public attack': Widespread shock as Trump blasts the Pentagon -- from the White House [View all]
Source: Raw Story
President Donald Trump accused the top brass of the Department of Defense of needlessly waging wars to boost the profits of defense contractors during a Labor Day press conference held at the White House.
Im not saying the militarys in love with me, the soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably arent because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy, Trump argued.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/unprecedented-public-widespread-shock-as-trump-blasts-the-pentagon-from-the-white-house/
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'Unprecedented public attack': Widespread shock as Trump blasts the Pentagon -- from the White House [View all]
Lunabell
Sep 2020
OP
needlessly waging wars? Military doesn't start wars, politicians do. Rumpie is so stupid.
KS Toronado
Sep 2020
#56
A pre-emptive strike by Trump so as to hold any future revelations of Trumps unfitness
OAITW r.2.0
Sep 2020
#15
This tells me that some of the people who gave the Atlantic the story about Trump calling KIA vets..
Botany
Sep 2020
#6
BTW Trump going on and on about the MIC (military industrial complex) is pure bull shit
Botany
Sep 2020
#78
Don't forget the reported large minority of Dominist's in the higher ranks especially the Air Force.
Tommymac
Sep 2020
#68
I ALWAYS listen closely to Gen. Clark when he's on tv. So clear thinking, good at communication.
Karadeniz
Sep 2020
#76
yeah trashing BLM and kids in cages social security misogyny etc no you won't fool us
mucifer
Sep 2020
#49
"One cold-hearted globalist betrayal after another, that's what it was," the president says in talki
riversedge
Sep 2020
#38
Defense Sec Esper's previous job: VP for govt relations at defense contractor Raytheon
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2020
#39
He doesn't give a shit about the wall. That is nothing but a diversion, a shiny object to focus on
not_the_one
Sep 2020
#75