Thread by @DemocracyStorm

"I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes...What animal would say such a thing?” DT

Animal DT:
“I like people who weren’t captured”
“I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier."
1/10
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

Sometimes, it's what Trump doesn't say that shows his distain for American Troops.

Putin paid bounties to Taliban enemies to kill American soldiers and not a word from Donald Trump

thehill.com/opinion/white-…

DT:
"He's not a war hero"
"The problem is we have the Geneva Conventions, all sorts of rules and regulations, so the soldiers are afraid to fight."
"I've made a lot of sacrifices. created thousands and thousands of jobs" comparing himself to the death of Army Cpt. Khan 2/10

Called former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “the world’s most overrated general”, “What’s he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good.”
3/10
cnn.com/2018/11/19/pol…

DT attacks Navy SEAL Adm. Bill McRaven, who commanded the 2011 raid that took down Osama bin Laden, calling him “a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer” and asking, “Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that?” 4/10
vox.com/2018/11/18/181…

On 4 star General John Allen. "You know who he is? He's a failed general. He was the general fighting ISIS. I would say he hasn't done so well, right?"

Forgets name of Sgt. La David Johnson while on the phone with his widow & saying that he "knew what he had signed up for."
5/10

Trump said retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, who led US forces in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2010, was fired by former President Barack Obama "like a dog."

6/10

Trump told Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, who served as a marine in Iraq, "You remain a frickin' coward" when Moulton dropped out of the presidential race.

(Moulton was awarded a Bronze Star and a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medal citing his fearlessness.)
7/10

He called Bill Taylor, the US's chief envoy to Ukraine, a Vietnam Veteran who was a witness in Trump's impeachment inquiry, and who had given evidence against him, a "Never Trumper." He went on to say, "Never Trumpers" were "human scum."
8/10

Trump called Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient, a "Never Trumper." (AKA human scum, in trump's language). 9/10

He repeatedly attacked Robert Mueller during the Russia Investigation. Mueller fought in the Vietnam War and was awarded multiple awards, including a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.

Robert S. Mueller III as “totally conflicted” and “a true never-Trumper” (AKA human scum)
10/10