Mod: Trump's big stupid mouth keeps causing him no end of trouble. Just another day of chaos in the life of the president who can't seem to stop saying awful things about anyone in his sight that day. Alive, or dead.
‘Show us your bone spurs!’: Ex-Nebraska Senator demands Trump’s x-rays — ‘you don’t grow out of them’ (
Raw Story link): In an indignant rant, former
Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) railed against
President Donald Trump for calling soldiers “suckers” for going to
Vietnam when
Trump managed to avoid it.
Kerrey was a
SEAL officer in the
U.S. Navy during
Vietnam and was ultimately put on
SEAL Team One. While in combat,
Kerrey was seriously injured and lost the lower part of his right leg, for which he was awarded the
Medal of Honor. His comments came after
Trump railed against late
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on
Twitter and during an
Ohio rally.
“This is the guy that showed up and said, ‘I don’t want to go to
Vietnam, like [
McCain] did,'”
Kerrey explained. “He said, ‘I wasn’t eligible to go to
Vietnam because I had bone spurs.’ You don’t grow out of bone spurs. I call on the president, get your feet x-rayed. Let’s see those x-rays. I want to see. While
John McCain was flying combat operations in
Vietnam, you were, I think, falsifying that you had bone spurs in order not to go to
Vietnam. Now, I know lots of people who avoided the draft, but this isn’t what he’s saying. He said I physically couldn’t go. Well,
Mr. President, get your feet x-rayed and let’s see those bone spurs. I don’t think he has them.”
Kerrey noted that
Trump would still have them today if he truly had bone spurs.
“Everything he’s saying is bad enough, but when he says, ‘He’s not my kind of guy because he went to
Vietnam, because he was flying combat missions and got shot down, was held as a prisoner.’ That’s not your kind of guy?”
Kerrey went on. “Who is your kind of guy? Your friends who falsified their records so they didn’t have to go? I think that’s the answer. I mean, I think he sees all of us who went to
Vietnam as fools. We were the suckers. We were the stupid ones. We were the ones that didn’t have the resources to be able to get out of the draft.”
Republican senator calls Trump's McCain insults 'deplorable'(
CNNlink):
Sen. Johnny Isakson said
President Donald Trump's criticism of the late
Sen. John McCain is "deplorable," and the
Georgia Republican promised to continue speaking out against
Trump if he continues to speak ill of the deceased war hero and former
GOP presidential nominee. "It's deplorable what he said,"
Isakson told
Georgia Public Broadcasting on Wednesday afternoon when asked about a series of critical comments Trump has made about
McCain.
"That's what I said on the floor of the
Senate seven months ago. It will be deplorable seven months from now if he says it again and I will continue to speak out."
Isakson continued "There aren't
Democratic causalities and
Republican casualties on the battlefield, there are
American casualties. And we should never reduce the service that people give to this country including the offering of their own lives to any political fodder in
Washington,
DC, or anywhere else for that matter."
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