Trump's record on military and vets
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No Trump in America has ever served in the military; this spans 5 generations, and every branch of the family tree. In fact, the reason his grandfather immigrated to America was to avoid military service.
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On August 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall
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Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)
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On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral
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He refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, and forced a branch of the military to go without pay. This branch of military was forced to work without pay, otherwise they would be AWOL. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise (Dec 22, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019)
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He didn't pay the Coast Guard, forcing service members to rely on food pantries (Jan 23, 2019)
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He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (Jan 22, 2019)
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He denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)
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He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)
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When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1. As a reminder, the Trump administration's goal was to dismantle the CFPB, installing Mick Mulvaney as the director, who publicly stated the bureau should be disbanded. (Jan 26, 2019)
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He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)
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He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)
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He finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)
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He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)
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Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise. He didn't give them a 10% raise (Dec 26, 2018). He initially tried to give the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. This was before Congress told him that idea wasn't going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama's. It wasn't.
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He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays (Dec 19, 2018-present)
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He got three Mar-a-Lago guests to run the VA (unknown start - present, made well-known in 2018)
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He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)
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He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)
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While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain - but other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)
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He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)
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He stopped using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, the troops remained in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018)
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Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many veterans to run out of food and rent. “You can count on us to serve, but we can’t count on the VA to make a deadline,” one veteran said. (reported October 7, 2018)
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Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)
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Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)
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He forgot a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)
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He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)
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He blocked a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017)
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He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)
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He deported veterans (2017-present)
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He said he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016)
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He said vets get PTSD because they aren't strong (Oct 3, 2016) (note: yes, he said it's 'because they aren't strong.' He didn't say it's 'because they're weak.' This distinction is important because of Snopes)
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Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)
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Trump attacks Gold Star families - Myeshia Johnson--gold star widow, Khan family--gold star parents, etc. (2016-present)
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Trump sent funds raised from a January 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)
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Trump said "I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people" because he went to a military-style academy and that he has "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military". (2015 biography)
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For a decade, Trump sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. “While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?” - 1991
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Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.