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Decorated veterans star in tough new anti-Trump ads (Video)
The Hill ^ | 3-5-2016

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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I did not know Tump was a draft dodger.
1 posted on 03/06/2016 3:12:59 PM PST by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

I’m not sure he was; I thought he had medical deferments.


2 posted on 03/06/2016 3:16:15 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Citizen Zed
I did not know Tump was a draft dodger.

He wasn't, it was back in the sixties and he failed the physical.
3 posted on 03/06/2016 3:17:52 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: Citizen Zed

Screw them.


4 posted on 03/06/2016 3:18:58 PM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: JoSixChip

Trump’s got to come out and start hitting cruz on things like his misleading Texas voters on his citizenship status when he ran for the Senate. And on cruz’s support of TPA and his vote for the corker bill. There are a lot of very big issues to hit cruz on and it is time to show where cruz has flat out lied to the voters and sided with the GOPe over his own constituents.


5 posted on 03/06/2016 3:19:52 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: JoSixChip

So the decorated Veterans are lying


6 posted on 03/06/2016 3:20:12 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: JoSixChip

But now he’ll be the healthiest president ever?


7 posted on 03/06/2016 3:20:13 PM PST by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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He is a draft dodger.

He lied about having bone spurs to avoid the draft.

8 posted on 03/06/2016 3:21:11 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Citizen Zed

“Conservative PAC” trash. Trump didnt dodge anything!

Just which candidate are they pitching for?


10 posted on 03/06/2016 3:21:50 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Citizen Zed
Uh oh. It's starting to sound like Trump's Tidal Wave has pretty much reversed course over the past couple of days.

The Trump Banshees have been shouting down Cruz supporters for weeks now, but the volume of pro-Cruz postings is increasing exponentially. Looks like a building victory for reason over rhetoric.

11 posted on 03/06/2016 3:21:51 PM PST by Kenton
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To: Steelfish

Wouldn’t be the first time.

Remember, Benedict Arnold was once a great hero.

Several of the guys who came back from the Hanoi Hilton were discretely retired “for the good of the service”.


12 posted on 03/06/2016 3:22:05 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: wideawake

And the link to the proof of that statement?


13 posted on 03/06/2016 3:22:27 PM PST by JayGalt
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To: wideawake
He is a draft dodger. He lied about having bone spurs to avoid the draft.

Source?
14 posted on 03/06/2016 3:22:51 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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Uh huh. Sure. So we can take the word of one of the more rabid braying trumpeters...or we can do a little research. I choose the latter and I’ll let others make their own decision:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-linger-about-trumps-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-war/2015/07/21/257677bc-2fdd-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html

Now, in 3....2....1....you’ll attack either me or the source of that article. It’s how you trumpeters roll.


15 posted on 03/06/2016 3:23:05 PM PST by Axeslinger (Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
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To: Kenton

You mean rise of the establishment.


16 posted on 03/06/2016 3:23:26 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: Steelfish
So the decorated Veterans are lying

Exactly.
17 posted on 03/06/2016 3:24:00 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: Citizen Zed

He wasn’t! He at first had a college deferment. So did I and millions of others. Then when he did take the physical, they found bone spurs on his heel. Probably would have needed surgery. A deferment. I was also deferred for a medical reason. Not uncommon.


18 posted on 03/06/2016 3:24:07 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Steelfish

Yup, they are.

Doesn’t matter who they are.

This stuff is documented. If people that think he did have some proof then put it on screen, not hide behind a military uniform of two people that didn’t even bother to furnish proof.


19 posted on 03/06/2016 3:24:08 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Citizen Zed
To put this ad into perspective, change the name from Trump to Clinton then compare who gets the most criticism..........
20 posted on 03/06/2016 3:24:47 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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