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Trump features Soviet soldiers in latest veterans video
The Washington Examiner ^ | January 22, 2016 | Gabby Morrongiello

Posted on 01/22/2016 12:12:57 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Just minutes after Donald Trump came under fire for retweeting a white nationalist on Friday, another Twitter user pointed out that the Republican presidential front-runner's latest campaign ad features images of Soviet soldiers.

[screen capture at source]

The images were included in a 40-second video posted to Trump's Facebook page Friday and accompanied by the following caption: "Our veterans are being treated worse than illegal immigrants. If Trump becomes president, that will end immediately. Our veterans will be proud and respected again. #‎MakeAmericaGreatAgain."

Several of the medals worn by the veterans depicted in the video are engraved with a hammer and sickle and "CCCP," a Russian abbreviation for the Soviet Union. The hammer and sickle is an iconic symbol for communism.

"These are our greatest people," Trump says in the video. "We will take care of them like never before."

A spokeswoman for Trump's campaign did not return the Washington Examiner's request for comment.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bohunk; brainy; campaignad; genius; gopprimary; mongoloid; oops; sovietsoldiers; trump
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To: dem bums

It’s hilarious but others here think this is a smoking gun proving Trump is not qualified to serve or some such.


61 posted on 01/22/2016 12:51:09 PM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That link is not working for me. Got another one?


62 posted on 01/22/2016 12:51:12 PM PST by austinaero
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To: austinaero

I took it from the article - go to the source.

I don’t do Facebook or tweet - everything I got is there.


63 posted on 01/22/2016 12:52:48 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yeah like the immigrant photos were shot in Morocco.

Hasn’t anyone figured out yet that Trump DOES THIS STUFF ON PURPOSE? It generates buzz which gets his basic message out to far more people than his original message......for free!


64 posted on 01/22/2016 12:53:50 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Trumpinator

Sloppy work by the campaign, using a Shutterstock image.
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-10391168-stock-footage-russia-togliatti-may-victory-day-veterans-of-world-war-ii-with-red-flowers-in-hand-at.html?src=rel/1222066:5/3p

I would guess someone will lose their ‘job’ over that. Very sloppy.


65 posted on 01/22/2016 12:54:02 PM PST by austinaero
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To: austinaero

Click on the screen shot (at the source) to go to Josh Perry’s tweet.


66 posted on 01/22/2016 12:54:41 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Doesn’t matter. It’s a personality cult. All stupidities, contradictions and 50 separate flip-flops don’t matter. It’s the personality that matters. All hail Juan Peron.


67 posted on 01/22/2016 12:58:02 PM PST by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: austinaero

Thanks for posting the link! Didnt see one Soviet soilder. I would think Trump would probrably screen his ads, being that he is paying for them. Also a man that is familiar with history as Trump seems to be I dont see that kind of mistake happening.
Go Trump


68 posted on 01/22/2016 12:59:41 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Someone would have to be dumber than a concrete block to not recognize that as a Soviet/Russian soldier.
At the very minimum to know that US medals look nothing like that.

Maybe it was a Bernie Sanders ad. He did take his honeymoon in the Soviet Union.


69 posted on 01/22/2016 1:00:16 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland
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To: Shadow44

Kind of like the wall ad video being in Morocco?
Jeb did the same thing when he showed the English countryside as America.
Like everything else Donald has done, he “doubling down” this time on inaccurate video.


70 posted on 01/22/2016 1:03:33 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
I can almost picture Bernie honeymooning at a secluded dacha hideaway. Not! Lol

But I guess he had a "sugar shack."

Bernie Sanders' early days in Vermont: His life, loves and circuitous route to politics

71 posted on 01/22/2016 1:08:54 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Trump has changed it looks like.


72 posted on 01/22/2016 1:14:31 PM PST by pilgrim
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yeah another oops.........how bout the illegals crossing the US border when in fact it was the Moroccan border. Now come on Trump supporters, this is getting close to Obama’s “57 states.”


73 posted on 01/22/2016 1:18:47 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Shadow44

But but but

The Mouth gets the BEST and Brightest together to get things done. LOL

Thus looks like something the Current idiots in our State Dept would put out.

Is Jen Psaki moonlighting for Donnie?

What a MAROON!


74 posted on 01/22/2016 1:21:57 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: VRWCarea51

Trump’s Mic guy is doing double duty as an ad man.


75 posted on 01/22/2016 1:27:29 PM PST by TADSLOS (Trump has sizzle, but Cruz is the real deal. - Jim Robinson 01/11/16)
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To: Beagle8U

You know thats Right.
Go Drumpf
The Good German!


76 posted on 01/22/2016 1:54:12 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Trumpinator

Karma police really like “what goes around, comes around”.


77 posted on 01/22/2016 2:31:21 PM PST by X-spurt
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Trump did this intentionally! He’s always right!


78 posted on 01/22/2016 4:25:25 PM PST by EveningStar (It's a cult.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ooops? More like LOL!


79 posted on 01/22/2016 5:40:21 PM PST by nomad
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To: Berlin_Freeper
As Kermit the Frog said when someone noted him as the only sane person in the Muppet b Theatre "Me, sane? I Hired there people!"

But Trump will blame an intern, again

Trump's campaign blames intern for tweet featuring Nazi soldiers

80 posted on 01/22/2016 5:51:04 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
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