Posted on 06/06/2024 12:51:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
Three veterans slammed former President Trump as a “draft dodger” and argued he is unfit to be commander in chief in a new video from President Biden’s reelection campaign unveiled Thursday, marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Marine Corps veteran Curtis Register, Army veteran Ed McCabe and Navy veteran Matthew McLaughlin participated in the minutelong video, which was intended to “highlight the stark contrast between Donald Trump, who criticizes veterans and has refused to take accountability or attend military funerals, and President Biden, who stands with our troops abroad and takes care of them at home,” according to the Biden campaign.
“A good commander in chief is somebody who gives a s‑‑‑,” Register said to open the video.
“Donald Trump has zero accountability in his life,” McLaughlin said.
McCabe added, “He’s a draft dodger, simple as that.”
The campaign highlighted that Trump reportedly referred to American veterans buried in France as “losers” and “suckers” and mocked then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was a prisoner in the Vietnam War. Trump has previously denied making the “suckers” remark, though it was later confirmed by his former chief of staff, John Kelly.
“From draft dodging to promising to take away veterans’ hard-earned benefits to repeating the rhetoric of dictators, it’s clear that Donald Trump doesn’t care about those who have bravely served our country. He doesn’t understand their sacrifice or the values they vowed to protect,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said in a statement.
Duckworth is a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel and a member of the Biden campaign’s national advisory board.
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This dem party is utterly vile.
This will fall flat to anyone not already voting for Der Bribeme.
I just clicked on the link, and it said, ‘Not there.’ Hmmmm.
Democrat or Republican, if someone wants to serve they can serve. Just because they may not be able to be slotted in a combat arms branch, they could be billeted elsewhere.
It’s one of the functions of Medical Waiver Review and related Boards - to consider medical waivers for personnel that want to continue to serve.
I heard Alex Gangitano is a child molester... Reportedly...
I'm glad a US Air Force veteran didn't participate in this made up phony political nastiness.
Biden got five student deferments and was finally declared medically unfit due to “childhood asthma”, the same asthma that did not seem to interfere with his football career or lifeguard job. Biden’s birthdate assigned him a low draft number which WAS called, Trump’s birthday assigned him one of the highest draft numbers possible and he obviously knew it would never be called and it wasn’t . It was not even close. Biden is an actual draft dodger and someone went to Vietnam in his place, Trump is not a draft dodger.
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I had asthma as a child and a young man. Didn’t stop me from enlisting, Didn’t stop me from becoming a Ranger..... In fact, being a Ranger kind of cured it. One day on a 25 mile fast road march, carrying a 125 pound pack and about to drop, it was like I ‘broke through a wall’... and it never bothered me again.
Inclluding a young Joe.
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