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Trump: Veterans with PTSD "aren't strong"
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<blockquote data-quote="The Barbarian" data-source="post: 71082008" data-attributes="member: 7989"><p><span style="color: #660000">There will be plenty of quibbling in the hours ahead, but Donald Trump clearly just created a new batch of problems for himself with his comments Monday morning, in which he suggested that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/03/trump-suggests-military-members-with-mental-health-issues-arent-strong-and-cant-handle-it/" target="_blank">veterans dealing with mental health problems aren't "strong" and "can't handle it."</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #660000">"When people come back from war and combat, they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over, and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it," Trump said to a veterans group in Northern Virginia.</span></p><p><span style="color: #660000"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/03/donald-trumps-gaffe-on-veterans-and-ptsd-shows-just-what-an-amateur-he-still-is/?utm_term=.25eb1a64237a" target="_blank">Donald Trump’s gaffe on veterans and PTSD shows just what an amateur he still is</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000"><span style="color: #000000">He didn't say they were "weak"; he said they weren't strong. And his apologists are all over it, trying to parse away his dismissal of PTSD soldiers as not strong. I suppose his draft avoider status (a lot of kids of wealthy parents suddenly developed odd disabilities that got better after the draft ended) exacerbated the insult. But isn't that classic Trump, after all?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Barbarian, post: 71082008, member: 7989"] [COLOR=#660000]There will be plenty of quibbling in the hours ahead, but Donald Trump clearly just created a new batch of problems for himself with his comments Monday morning, in which he suggested that [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/03/trump-suggests-military-members-with-mental-health-issues-arent-strong-and-cant-handle-it/']veterans dealing with mental health problems aren't "strong" and "can't handle it."[/URL] "When people come back from war and combat, they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over, and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it," Trump said to a veterans group in Northern Virginia. [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/03/donald-trumps-gaffe-on-veterans-and-ptsd-shows-just-what-an-amateur-he-still-is/?utm_term=.25eb1a64237a"]Donald Trump’s gaffe on veterans and PTSD shows just what an amateur he still is[/URL] [COLOR=#000000]He didn't say they were "weak"; he said they weren't strong. And his apologists are all over it, trying to parse away his dismissal of PTSD soldiers as not strong. I suppose his draft avoider status (a lot of kids of wealthy parents suddenly developed odd disabilities that got better after the draft ended) exacerbated the insult. But isn't that classic Trump, after all? [/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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