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).
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.”
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
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.
“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.
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