He made the comments after a military veteran gave his Purple Heart to Trump. “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart – this was much easier”. I said oh. I said so.is that like.
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A Purple Heart is a medal awarded to USA service members who are wounded in battle.
At a campaign event in Virginia on Tuesday, Trump tried to mend any damage he’d done with members of the military in an unusual way: He accepted a Purple Heart from a veteran in the audience.
But NBC News’ Katy Tur reported shortly afterward that the veteran told her the medal was a copy of his Purple Heart.
On Monday, Donald Trump’s team reeled from the cumulative effect of his Khan family feud, which saw the real estate mogul boast of “sacrifices” while insulting the parents of a fallen Purple Heart recipient. Trump never served in the military, though he once said that he “always felt that I was in the military” because he went to military school.
It was a Purple Heart medal. “This was much easier”.
At another point during Trump’s rally a woman’s baby was crying and apparently Trump told her to stay and not worry about it, but a minute later mocked her, and told her to get the baby out of there. Trump later said Khizr Khan had no right to criticize him and questioned whether Ghazala Khan was allowed to speak.
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At the height of the Vietnam War, Trump received five draft deferments, four for his ongoing college education and one for a “temporary” foot condition he told the New York Times later “healed up”.
