VA Secretary Swats Down Report On Trump Calling Fallen Soldiers ‘Losers’ | Talking Points Memo

Veterans Affairs secretary Robert Wilkie on Sunday hit back at The Atlantic report that quoted President Trump calling slain soldiers in the Battle of Belleau Woods “losers,” but broke from the President’s past criticism of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).


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“Swats Down”?? Bwhahahahahahahahaha!

Sure, Bob. Whatever you say Bob. It’s all a matter of semantics, you fucking bullshitter


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VA Secretary Robert Wilkie on Trump repeatedly taking credit (more than 150 times!) for VA Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama: “You are talking about semantics as opposed to substance.”

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Mnooch doesn’t believe it either. Nor does his money honey.

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Like I would believe this clown. Sorry Asst. Sec Wilkie. You can’t unring trumps lying bell.

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It’s all just semantics.

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So, the damage control strategy appears to be to limit everything to what Trump said about McCain, and call it “politics in the heat of a campaign”.

Anything else is fake news, backed only by “anonymous sources”.

We need those anonymous sources to step forward. Audio/video would be nice, too.

Fingers crossed…

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I really like it when trump and co are made to play defense. They’re very bad at it because it’s way more difficult to get everyone on the same page defending lies

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Yeah me too - he’s on the ropes and I’d like to keep the motherfucker there.

although he’s welcome to drop dead or resign.

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If the Trump family didn’t leave Germany we all know what troops they would have heartily supported and not called losers.

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Wilkie just disgraced himself. His defense of Trump will not fly with the men and women in the military, who, deep in their hearts, know the truth.

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How could he possibly know?

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Remember the defense of Trump for his misogynist remarks as being “locker room talk?” Next we’ll be hearing a defense that these remarks were “barracks talk.” Donnie is a liar and a phony.

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“And I would be offended, too, if I thought it was true,” Wilkie said. “Again, I think anonymous are the same people that brought you fake heart attacks, fake strokes, Russian collusion.”

It’s clear that like all Trump toadies you’ve constructed some wobbly defensive scaffolding around your thesis that insulates you from ever even considering the possibility that it is true. Gotta preserve that ego, I know.

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Another @atrupar. trumPP blathering about no college football this year and a reminder of PP’s fail on COVID

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1302631765400604673?s=20

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Of course he leaves out how the Vindmans were treated, something that most defense secretaries would have decried.

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This guy is the best 45* can trot out on one of the most consequential developments of his entire (mal)administration? I guess folks higher up the food chain were taking the holiday weekend off at government expense while they still can

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TCU and SMU had to cancel their game because TCU has such a big COVID outbreak.

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So, more lies. Quelle surprise. Yawn.

And speaking of, well, deceit…and more questionable, if not downright illegal, behavior from this maladministration…

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“I wasn’t there and my job depends on my answer to this question, so I don’t see it.”

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IF this isn’t the nastiest piece of work and if this isn’t illegal it by god should be.

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