re:Trump's support of the military and veterans

Oakland CA

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Generally speaking what liberals say are lies, at the very least exaggerations and misrepresentations. Need an example, just the other day Biden was asked if his Administration was preparing to pay illegals who's families were separated at the border to verify if they were in fact family members during Trump's Presidency $450K each for any trauma they might have suffered. Biden said it was a lie yet minutes after making the claim the ACLU said Biden didn't tell the truth and his own DOJ said the same. Now the White House released a statement Biden has no problem with these payments to be made. I could go on and on, Biden was asked before we completely pulled out of Afghanistan if he would leave any Americans behind and he said no but as we all know he left hundreds of Americans behind and thousands of our Afghan allies the US promised to take out of Afghanistan should we leave. McCain was one military personnel, a terrible opponent of Trump's, a true RINO Republican the type of Senator who voted against his Party to the determent of our nation. A Senator who early on in his career was involved in the Lincoln Savings & Loan scandal that rocked the nation. To try an extrapolate Trump's dislike of McCain to all of our military who fought wars, were captured etc. is the height of unethical behavior...something you are known for fairfax. When Trump saw how corrupt some of his military appointees were yes he fired them as he should. No point keeping members of the military complex around when they lied to him as they did when he gave the orders to pull our troops out of Syria but they left about a thousand there because "they knew better". Those Generals and Commanders should have faced court martial for disobeying a direct order from the Commander in Chief, Trump merely fired them. Seems you only come to defense of the military when a Republican President is in office, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are granted their powers from the people and our elected leaders, when they decided they don't want to follow orders from the Commander in Chief they can resign they should never try to undermine the elected civilian leadership. We really don't want a "7 Days in May" scenario. Gen. Milley isn't Burt Lancaster. Everyone with a lick of sense knows the President can't order a nuclear strike on his own, there are several officials involved making such a decision and the President has the final say. All Presidents once there's a National Emergency declared as Trump did about the massive wave of illegals crossing our border and his solution to fund more border wall which Congress approved before he became President but didn't fund, can move money around under his jurisdiction to that end. He wasn't committing a dereliction of duty to veterans or the VA, they got their funding delayed at best because of a more urgent matter. Your characterization of this event demonstrates how Democrats massage the facts to fit their lying narratives. You're long over due to put your TDS away particularly when it comes to our military because most of our soldiers are infuriated beyond belief by Biden's cut and run from Afghanistan more than any complaints they have about Trump. What is it with this mindset? If it was said by a "liberal" then it must be a lie? Really? First, while Trump's support from the military was considered "high" in 2016, it has seen a steady decline during the 4 years he was in office. Funding the military is one thing, but to make statements like (paraphrasing) "if you died or were captured you were a loser" in reference to McCain didn't sit too well. Nor did his refusal to lay a wreath in France, or the Arlington fiasco. And of course the fact that he hired former military people, subsequently fired them, then talked shit about them didn't go well either. And the fact that the Joint Chiefs of Staff didn't trust him at the end speaks volumes as to what the military thought of Dump. They saw him as a threat, not a supporter. And lastly, the $1.2 billion in funding for the VA that he took to "build his wall" was the final straw. I know it's hard to have your perception changed, but alas he wasn't well-liked throughout the ranks. Members of the officers ranks actually had him lower than the enlisted ranks but both categories were in the 30% range. So the OP was correct in the assessment that he wasn't well-liked. And his support dropped throughout his presidency. For reference check out various articles including ones on Time.com. And I know some conservatives who also know this so I won't make a blanket statement that "all conservatives lie". Just the very insecure and frightened ones.