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Rhiannon12866

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Thu Oct 3, 2024, 08:24 AM Oct 3

'Are you kidding me?' Michael Steele slams Trump downplaying U.S. troop brain injuries - Morning Joe - MSNBC



Donald Trump this week downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache."
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'Are you kidding me?' Michael Steele slams Trump downplaying U.S. troop brain injuries - Morning Joe - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 3 OP
Just a reminder duncang Oct 3 #1
Good Grief, I remember that! Rhiannon12866 Oct 3 #2
Trump downplays importance of troops with brain injuries (again) LetMyPeopleVote Oct 3 #3
Good Grief! Thank you for all the additional information Rhiannon12866 Oct 3 #5
Traumatic Brain Injury is an Extraordinarily Serious Injury MagaSmash Oct 3 #4
Appreciate the information, Capitol and Metropolitan Police defending the Capitol on January 6th suffered this, too Rhiannon12866 Oct 3 #6

duncang

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1. Just a reminder
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 09:09 AM
Oct 3

There were reports that after the 4 U.S. soldiers died in Niger tfg and his aides joked after they were ambushed.

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Just searched it. Omarosa secretly recorded it and gave it to the news. Later tfg couldn’t even remember one of the soldiers name when talking to his widow.

LetMyPeopleVote

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3. Trump downplays importance of troops with brain injuries (again)
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 12:46 PM
Oct 3

After an Iranian missile attack injured U.S. troops in 2020, Trump downplayed their brain injuries as "headaches." Nearly four years later, he did it again.



The VP debate was obviously a major event, but Trump yesterday downplayed the importance of U.S. troops sustaining brain injuries during an Iranian missile attack in 2020.

And that seems like a pretty big deal.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-downplays-importance-troops-brain-injuries-rcna173596

That, of course, was problematic in important ways. After all, many of us still remember the fact that Iran was responsible for a January 2020 missile attack that targeted U.S. forces stationed in Iraq. It was in response to a drone attack that killed Iranian general Quasem Soleimani.

The attack injured several dozen American servicemembers, many of whom were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. The Pentagon ultimately approved Purple Hearts for 39 U.S. soldiers wounded in the attack.

Trump, the then-president, dismissed the importance of the injuries to his own country’s troops — he called them little more than “headaches” — prompting the Veterans of Foreign Wars to ask the Republican to apologize for minimizing the service members’ injuries. Trump ignored the request.

Nearly four years later, he did it again. The Washington Post reported:

Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a question at a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday.


As difficult as this was to believe, five weeks before Election Day, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee downplayed the importance of American troops who had traumatic brain injuries in response to an Iranian missile attack. Trump did this out loud, on camera, on purpose, and on the record.




“So, first of all, 'injured.' What does 'injured' mean?” the GOP candidate asked rhetorically. “Injured means — you mean because they had a headache? Because the bombs never hit the fort. So just so you understand, there was nobody ever tougher on Iraq.” (Yes, he confused Iran and Iraq.)

The first time Trump made comments like these, the VFW called the “headache” comments “misguided.” Nearly four years later, they have not improved with age......

As regular readers know, Trump has also reportedly denigrated those who serve in the military and condemned fallen American heroes as “suckers.” (He denies doing so.) Trump has also complained bitterly about American military leaders, reportedly disparaged wounded veterans, blamed military leaders for failed missions he approved, feuded with Gold Star families, and famously declared in reference to American prisoners of war, “I like people that weren’t captured, okay?”

What’s more, as a candidate, Trump liked to say he “felt” like he had served in the military because his parents sent him to a military-themed boarding school as a teenager. He went so far as to boast that his expensive prep school gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military,” which was a precursor to Trump pointing to bone spurs as part of an apparent effort to dodge the draft.

It was implausible that the Republican candidate could make matters worse — right up until he expressed indifference to troops with traumatic brain injuries.

Rhiannon12866

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6. Appreciate the information, Capitol and Metropolitan Police defending the Capitol on January 6th suffered this, too
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 07:36 PM
Oct 3
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