Follow this thread to understand further Trump's contempt for our military and how he denigrates everything our troops hold dear -including the lives of their comrades in arm who have bounties on their heads.
Trump now orders @starsandstripes closed. The first issue from.../1
...February 8, 1918 was put out for our boys fighting in WW1. There was another paper with the same name in the Civil War, but the WW1 version is the @starsandstripes we know today.
General Jack Pershing - AEF commander on the Western Front, wrote this on page 1 of issue 1:.../2
...Pershing's key words were at the end of his introduction of @starsandstripes to the troops. As Pershing says, it is THE TROOPs' paper, not ours, and certainly not the paper of Donald Trump the draft-dodger.../3
...so why is this contemptible man Trump killing @starsandstripes? First, he knows the troops cant criticize his decision - they are forbidden from criticizing the Commander in Chief, even a poser like Trump. So it is up the rest of us to honor our troops and fight for it.../4
...you know why. I know why. @starsandstripes - while paid for out of the Pentagon budget - is not controlled by the Executive Branch. It is, to the extent possible, independent in its articles and broadcasts, just like Voice of America, which is being kneecapped by Trump...
...for not being an adjunct to his campaign, not celebrating him enough. I am told the decision to cripple @starsandstripes came sometime in November/December 2019, which is why Trump tried to zero out its financing in early '20. So, what was @starsandstripes printing then?.../6
...well, they had a lengthy piece about an undisclosed effort by the White House to justify Trump's decision to illegally place a hold on military aid to Ukraine when he was pushing them to "do us a favor" by attacking Biden.../7
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...now, I dont know if that's the one. But I urge you, figure out if there was an article from @starsandstripes from 11/19-12/19 that was discussed on Fox. Because you know damn well the illiterate Trump didn't read it, but saw it on TV.
Fight for our troops #SaveStarsAndStripes
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