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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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To: Steelfish

Not lying, stretching the truth.

” essentially dodged the draft in Vietnam through multiple deferments”

receiving deferments was never the same as draft dodging unless the deferments were obtained illegitimately for the specific purpose of avoiding the draft.


61 posted on 03/06/2016 3:47:27 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Citizen Zed

Trump had his own Viet Nam:

“I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,’ he said of sexually transmitted diseases. ‘It is a dangerous world out there,’ he said. ‘It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era.’ ‘It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3451452/Trump-says-sex-eighties-personal-Vietnam-Howard-Stern-interview-1997.html#ixzz42Aad9UZ5


62 posted on 03/06/2016 3:47:39 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Trump had his own Viet Nam:

“I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,’ he said of sexually transmitted diseases. ‘It is a dangerous world out there,’ he said. ‘It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era.’ ‘It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3451452/Trump-says-sex-eighties-personal-Vietnam-Howard-Stern-interview-1997.html#ixzz42Aad9UZ5


63 posted on 03/06/2016 3:47:39 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: beandog

Cruz could have volunteered. He did not. He let other people go in his place.


64 posted on 03/06/2016 3:47:55 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Iowa David

“Bone spurs?”

They can be very painful and limiting. A few years ago a LEO buddy had to retire early cuz he could no longer limp around. Bone spurs in his feet. Operations on each foot, and a pretty long recovery time.


65 posted on 03/06/2016 3:48:01 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: Vendome

Which is why he plays golf, though it is a bit perplexing, since he still has sex and doesn’t wear ugly pants.

He didn’t lose his legs. I’m sure he drives around on the golf course....a lot different than crawling around the jungle slowing down and putting in danger those who serve with you. If he was medically disqualified by military doctors, this is a non issue.


66 posted on 03/06/2016 3:48:25 PM PST by mouse1 (u)
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To: Citizen Zed

John McCain received citations but not one of his citations described as required in military manuals a specific act of heroism, not one. The reason he received the citations is because he was an Admiral’s boy and nothing more than that.

McCain is highly decorated with empty citations. He was and is a fraud.

Yes he suffered as a POW but so did countless others who were wounded and left to die in the jungles of Vietnam.

Suffering is not a citable action for heroism unless it was to save lives or accomplish a critical mission. All of this is clearly described in military manuals for citations. I posted direct links and sources last year that left zero room for argument.

People that learn the truth about McCain become angry and angrier still when he calls anyone supporting Trump ‘crazy’. He called the 15,000 Trump supporters in AZ “crazies”. And you can bet he’s cackling over those like Beck who are insinuating that Trump supporters are Nazis.


67 posted on 03/06/2016 3:48:26 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Donglalinger

-—Where did little Rubio and Ted serve again?
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Ted’s dad fled to Canada during the draft.


68 posted on 03/06/2016 3:48:54 PM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp (noob)
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To: mouse1

It was too high. My brother also had a high lottery number, thank God.


69 posted on 03/06/2016 3:49:31 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Did the Canadian and the Cuban file for selective service?


71 posted on 03/06/2016 3:50:50 PM PST by mouse1 (u)
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To: Iowa David
but I try to evaluate charges against Trump fairly

LOL!!!!
72 posted on 03/06/2016 3:51:08 PM PST by visualops (It's the majority of the American people and Trump against the enemies of the republic - Windflier)
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To: BykrBayb

Trump’s exposure to the draft, however, didn’t last long. Two months later, on Sept. 17, 1968, he reported for an armed forces physical examination and was medically disqualified, according to the ledger from his local Selective Service System draft board in Jamaica, N.Y., now in the custody of the National Archives.


73 posted on 03/06/2016 3:52:40 PM PST by Abby4116
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To: mouse1

You don’t understand Draft Lottery Numbers, do you?

In order for him to be drafted with that number, essentially every eligible man in the entire country in that “year group” would have been drafted.


74 posted on 03/06/2016 3:53:01 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: miss marmelstein

It was too high. My brother also had a high lottery number, thank God.

Didn’t realize the numbers corresponded to day of the year (birthdate). My mistake.


75 posted on 03/06/2016 3:54:02 PM PST by mouse1 (u)
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To: Spunky
Scroll down the the 7th paragraph and it starts telling about all the deferments he got.

Are you saying that there is actual evidence of Bill Clinton's military deferments?

While that is indeed huge, I'm still waiting to see John F'n Kerry's military medical records that substantiated his 3 purple hearts that resulted in his early out.............

Can ya help this brutha out?

76 posted on 03/06/2016 3:54:13 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Axeslinger
I did not render judgment either way. I am merely providing info instead of just spouting off. Personally, given his wealth and connections I think it highly likely that he used all legal means to avoid service.

Do you really not see that you are doing exactly what you are saying you are not doing all in the same paragraph?
77 posted on 03/06/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: VanDeKoik

“Just which candidate are they pitching for?”

Hillary, naturally.


78 posted on 03/06/2016 3:55:00 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: DuncanWaring

He may be too young to understand that lottery system. I thank God my brother got a high number. We spent a horrible summer (I don’t remember which year - blanked it out) worrying that he would be drafted - and die needlessly in a war that was not fought to be won.


79 posted on 03/06/2016 3:55:06 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: DuncanWaring

No I didn’t understand - Looked up and realized the number corresponded to birthday. Makes sense now. Amazing at 55 years old I am still learning things I should have in the public school system.


80 posted on 03/06/2016 3:55:32 PM PST by mouse1 (u)
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