Democrat Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump for speaking out reportedly did referring to the “losers” and “suckers” dead in the US war, describing them as “disgusting” and “damned”.
“Frankly speaking, if what is written on Atlantic Ocean however, it confirms what most of us think is true – that Donald Trump is not fit for the presidency and commander-in-chief, ”Biden said in his campaign speech in Wilmington, Delaware.
Trump and former aides loudly denied accounts in the article.
Biden referred to the military service of his son Bo, who later died of cancer. “He was not a sucker. The military and women he served with, especially those who did not return home, did not lose, ”Biden said.
“If these statements are true, the president should humbly apologize to every Gold Star mother and father and every Blue Star family he has denigrated and insulted.
“Who the hell does he think he is?” Biden continued.
The Democratic presidential candidate said Trump was “not loyal to anything other than himself.” If the article is correct, Biden added, “This is absolutely damnable. It’s a shame”.
Democratic MPs who served in the military and other US veterans. blown up the president.
“I’m not shocked when I hear more cases of Donald Trump belittling the sacrifices of those who have shown more courage than he is capable of,” but “I’m shocked,” Senator Tammy Duckworth, MD, said in a telephone conversation. organized by Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
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Duckworth, who lost her legs and partially used her right arm while serving in Iraqalso mentioned Trump’s use of sick leave to avoid getting involved in the Vietnam War.
“On any given day, I take a wheelchair and titanium legs on Donald Trump’s alleged bone spurs,” Duckworth said.
An article in the Atlantic, published Thursday, argued that Trump’s decision to opt out of visiting the American cemetery Ane-Marne near Paris in 2018 to commemorate US military personnel killed was prompted by the fact that he did not want to wet his hair and did not consider it important. …
“Why would I go to this cemetery? It’s full of losers, ”Trump told aides. according to The Atlantic, which cited four people who knew the discussion firsthand… Several aides who traveled to France with Trump denied this theory after it was published.
The report also said Trump specifically requested the exclusion of injured veterans, including amputees, from the military parade during the 2018 White House planning meeting. “Nobody wants to see this,” – quoted by Trump magazine.
On Friday morning, VoteVets, a progressive veteran group critical of the president, posted an online ad featuring Gold Star’s parents, who were outraged by the report.
“My son is not a loser,” says one of the six parents featured in the video.
Marine veteran Conor Lamb, D.-P., noted the story of the soldiers buried at Ein Marne and said, “This burial ground deserves the highest respect and honor of any American.”
Trump, who vehemently denied the account on Thursday night, said Friday at an event in the Oval Office that “it was a fake story written by a magazine that won’t last long.”
“But it was a completely bogus story, and it was confirmed by a lot of people who were actually there. It was terrible that anyone could say such things, and especially to me, because I did more for the military than almost anyone else.” he insisted.
Trump also lashed out at the magazine on Twitter, writing: “The Atlantic Magazine is dying like most magazines, so they are making up a fake story to get some relevance. The story has already been disproved, but this is what we are opposed to. Just like a fake dossier. You fight and fight, and then people realize that it was a complete deception! “
Vice President Mike Pence also spoke out against the report in an interview with CNBC on Friday.
“I have not been to Paris, but it didn’t happen. I spoke to the President that day, ”Pence said.
“I know how disappointed President Trump is with the bad weather call that prevented him from flying to Belleau Wood to honor our victims,” the vice president said, adding, “I don’t need anyone the President told me something. Donald Trump loves our respect, members of our military, like no one I have ever met, and so I immediately reject this story. “
In a press briefing, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh Makinani noted that ten current and former administration officials who traveled to Paris in 2018 denied the story of the trip to the flooded cemetery described in the article. McEnany also showed an email showing that a planned helicopter flight to the memorial had been canceled due to bad weather, as reported at the time.
“The story at The Atlantic has been flatly denied,” she said, adding that the story “is based on cowardly anonymous sources” that “probably don’t even exist.” “No one, I mean anyone, loves or cares about our military personnel and women as much as Donald Trump,” she said.
She refused to answer questions.
