“You should have pinned that back to that veteran’s chest”, he said. “A man came up to me and he handed me his Purple Heart”, Trump told the audience.
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U.S Representative and candidate for senate Tammy Duckworth, a recipient of the Purple Heart, spoke about to Trump’s comments.
“The man who gave Trump his purple heart told me earlier today, it was a copy of his purple heart”, Tur tweeted. Dorfman went on to say that Trump would make a good Commander-in-Chief, and that he has no regrets about giving Trump his medal. John McCain: “He’s not a war hero”.
The magnate never served in the Armed Forces and avoided the draft five times during the Vietnam War on deferments – four times for pursuing his college studies and once for being diagnosed with a bone spur on one of his feet.
But Kerr said he realizes actually sending Trump to a war zone is unrealistic, and the money will actually be going to “a good cause that Donald Trump would vehemently oppose: aiding Syrian refugees”.
Trump invited Dorfman to appear onstage with him.
A military mother at a town hall meeting in Carson City, Nevada, asked vice presidential candidate Mike Pence to share his thoughts after Donald Trump criticized Khzir Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.
“That’s my real Purple Heart”, Dorfman responded.
Loudon, a registered Republican, said Trump’s characterization that he had sacrificed because he built businesses is “inexcusable”. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart and I will try to keep faith with you and all the other veterans who have earned these decorations”.
The latest dust-up comes as Trump deals with the fall-out over comments he made about the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a USA soldier who was Muslim and was killed in Iraq in 2004. “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices”.
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“At the same time, I don’t think she would allow herself to be subjected to that”, he said. His extraordinary claim one he did not back up with any immediate evidence would, if it became more than just an offhand comment, seem to threaten the tradition of peacefully contested elections and challenge the very essence of a fair democratic process. His sister, as a “strong person”, would bring up the matter with her company’s human resources department, he said.
