Posted on 03/06/2016 3:12:59 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Decorated veterans are going after Donald Trump’s character in hard-hitting new Florida ads designed to drive down the Republican presidential front-runner’s popularity to stop him winning the crucial winner-take-all state on March 15.
In new attack ads, released by conservative nonprofit American Future Fund within a multimillion-dollar rotation, two veterans, Afghanistan Special Forces Commander Lt. Col. Michael Waltz and retired Vietnam pilot and prisoner of war Lt. Col. Tom Hanton, hit Trump for dodging the draft in Vietnam, “serving only himself,” and for criticizing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being captured during the Vietnam War.
American Future Fund spokesman Stuart Roy said in an email to The Hill Saturday that the group is swapping out its current ads in the Florida Panhandle for the new veteran ads and said it "will be adding new money there on Monday, as well."
“The Panhandle is full of active and retired military. Think Eglin Air Force Base, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Hulburt Field, Naval Support Activity Panama City, and Tyndall Air Force Base.”
In one of the ads, Waltz tells viewers to put a stop Trump's campaign.
“Donald Trump hasn’t served this country a day in his life, essentially dodged the draft in Vietnam through multiple deferments,” Waltz says, speaking directly into the camera. “All Donald Trump has served is himself. Don’t let Donald Trump fool you. Look into his real record and stop Trump now."
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They were both 2 years old when the draft ended.
” but this one seems legit.”
Bull! It’s not remotely legit! Have you had a draft physical?
We'll wait.
His Daddy had hundreds of millions of dollars and the political connections that go along with it.
I come from about 120 years of Marines before I enlisted, thank you very much. But I can’t help when I was born...
And re: the rest of your tripe, go back and read my posts here and you’ll see that you are mistaken.
Who, in that era, would have insisted their son volunteer instead?
Or, did I miss the issue entirely?
So he told the draft board he had bone spurs, and bribed them to go along with it? Are you sure? How do you know this?
No that seems to be the crux of the matter. The issue really comes down to the definition of draft dodger. See my 54.
MY parents.......but that's neither here nor there.......
That’s why we need to take care of our Vets, show them respect, make sure the healthcare we promised them is as good as we can make it. That’s one of the promises that Trump has made which I believe is central to who he is and to what he will accomplish.
We send young men into harms way give them experiences that will haunt them and isolate them; we need to see them through the aftermath and not abandon them. The difficulties returned servicemen have getting their benefits & care is a National disgrace.
Identify the rest of the “tripe”.
No one can help when they were born, but anyone can refrain from piling scorn on someone else.
And are you in charge of the qualifications for draft dodger?
I guess our experiences were different. Many of these disgusting clowns are today running our country today as part of the federal workforce and were responsible for the discrimination veterans received after the war. No, they are probably on cushy government retirements.
This is a brain fart of yours, what proof do you have and why should we listen to you making up things to attack Trump out of thin air?
The facts in the case are that he had a medical cause of ineligibility. The armed forces gets to decide if you are fit for duty and they don’t take the draftee’s word for anything.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has sole responsibility of ownership, storage, and retrieval of Selective Service records for men born before 1960. Consequently, NOTE: Selective Service can no longer access any of these records.
He seems to have backed Santorum, Huckabee, and maybe Chris Christie.
Don't know if he got money from (say) Cruz or Romney...or if this is on his own hook.
Trump talks about Pershing, Patton, MacArthur. He didn’t consider McCain a hero just because he was a POW.
No worry. It was a long time ago!
When the Draft lottery was held for men of his birth year, his birthday, June 14, was very high (353) and he was virtually immune from the draft ever after.
Real draft dodgers fled to Canada, elsewhere, or went to jail. Well, at least one simply refused orders and later became President.
Trump was strictly speaking not a draft dodger and those who say else are either ignorant or lying.
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