Trump and his history with the military. I'm sure some will dispute the sources but some are more than legit.
The fact that Kelly had no comment on the Atlantic story posted by the OP is pretty telling.
Trump knew since Mar 2020 that Russia paid bounties to kill American troops, yet he has done nothing. he was briefed on options such as sanctions yet his admin has taken no action against russia for paying bounties for killing American and NATO troops.
The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.
www.nytimes.com
In May 2020, the White House was planning to end National Guard deployments one day before they could claim benefits, but after the massive public outcry, they backtracked and let Guard members continue on their orders.
A plan to keep 40,000 troops on coronavirus duty through July awaits the president’s approval.
www.politico.com
The Trump admin seized 5 million masks intended for VA hospitals. Kushner distributes these masks to private entities for a fee, who then sells the masks to the government
In 2020, reports surfaced that federal officials seized PPE shipments from local agencies or stopped the deals between vendors and states.
www.snopes.com
The Trump administration’s new method for distributing medical supplies has led to charges of confiscation.
www.nytimes.com
Trump's admin fired the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after he warned superiors that COVID19 was spreading among his crew. The virus subsequently spread amongst the crew.
Capt. Brett Crozier was relieved of his command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier after a highly critical letter he wrote to his superiors went public.
www.npr.org
After Iran's retaliatory strike, 109 US troops suffered brain injuries. Trump dismissed these as "headaches"
https://apnews.com/eabf6766d717a2dd518a3c6319bb2430
The deputy commander of the American-led operation in Iraq said the Pentagon was putting service members through medical examinations to see if they had traumatic brain injuries.
www.nytimes.com
Pardoned multiple war criminals, which stomped on long standing military values, discipline, and command. Trump has no military experience (May&Nov, 2019)
POTUS intervenes in the cases of two Army officers and a Navy SEAL.
www.militarytimes.com
The orders drew cheers from some but were seen by others as a sign of disregard for the judicial process.
www.nytimes.com
Trump mocked Lt. Col. Vindman for his rank and uniform. He threatened said purple heart officer, resulting in the Army providing him protection. Sent opposition research to the Pentagon to derail Lt. Col. Vindman's promotion
Investigators could not corroborate the allegations against Vindman, and he retired this month following a "campaign of bullying" from Trump.
www.businessinsider.com
Lt. Col. Vindman, an Iraq War veteran, is an active duty Army officer and is following regulations by wearing his uniform to impeachment hearings.
www.businessinsider.com
Trump’s Chief of Staff worked—in secret—to deny comprehensive health coverage to Vietnam Vets who suffered from Agent Orange.
Internal documents reveal the disagreements within the Trump administration over adding new Agent Orange-connected diseases.
www.militarytimes.com
There is a facility in Tijuana for US veterans that Trump deported. Wounded war vet, Sen Duckworth (D) marked Veterans Day 2019 by visiting this facility
Alex Murillo served his country. Then he was kicked out.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
Russia took control of the main U.S. military facility in Syria abandoned on Trump’s orders. Russia now owns the airstrip we built
Russia landed attack helicopters and troops at a sprawling air base in northern Syria vacated by U.S. forces, the Russian Defence Ministry's Zvezda TV channel said on Friday.
www.reuters.com
As the United States withdraws from Syria, Russia is stepping in, running patrols to separate warring factions, striking deals and helping President Bashar al-Assad advance.
www.nytimes.com
On Oct 7, 2019, Trump abruptly withdrew support from America's allies in Syria after a phone call with Turkey's president (Erdogan). Turkey subsequently bombed US Special Forces.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...-administration-to-pull-troops-from-northern- syria-as-turkey-readies-offensive/2019/10/07/a965e466-e8b3-11e9-bafb-da248f8d5734_story.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/7679...ticized-for-pulling-troops-from-syrian-border
In Sept 2019, he made an Air Force cargo crew, flying from the U.S. to Kuwait stop in Scotland (where there's no U.S. base) to refuel at a commercial airport (where it costs more), so they could stay overnight at a Trump property (which isn't close to the airport). Trump’s golf courses are losing money, so he's forcing the military to pay for 5-star nights there.
A C-17 crew comprising both Air National Guard and active-duty airmen stayed at President Donald Trump’s posh Turnberry golf resort in Scotland during a trip earlier this year to deliver supplies to Kuwait, as well as on the return trip, Politco reports.
www.airforcetimes.com
Now the layover is part of a broader House inquiry into military spending at and around the Trump property.
www.politico.com
In Sept, 2019, Pentagon pulled funds for military schools, military housing funds, and daycare to pay for Trump's border wall.
The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would pull funding from 127 Defense Department projects, including schools and daycare centers for military families, as it diverts $3.6 billion to fund President Donald Trump's wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
www.reuters.com
In Aug, 2019, emails revealed that three of Trump's Mar-a-Lago pals, who are now running Veterans Affairs, are rampant with meddling. "They had no experience in veterans affairs (none of them even served in the military) nor underwent any kind of approval process to serve as de facto managers. Yet, with Trump’s approval, they directed actions and criticized operations without any oversight. They wasted valuable staff time in hundreds of pages of communications and meetings, emails show. Emails reveal disdainful attitudes within the department to the trio’s meddling."
Career officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs expressed deep frustrations over having to entertain "ridiculous" policy recommendations from a trio of influential Mar-a-Lago club members during President Donald Trump's time in office, according to documents released by Citizens for...
www.cnn.com
In the emails, the staff humored the three Trump friends while ignoring their advice, which they considered potentially disruptive to veteran health care.
www.politico.com
Trump instructed aides to seize private property some of which contain military service member remains.
SAN JUAN, Texas (AP) — On a muggy, mosquito-filled evening near the U.S.-Mexico border, the threat of President Donald Trump's border wall brought together a large group of family members at two historic cemeteries that are part of their ancestral land.
apnews.com
Trump told officials he would pardon them if they break the law by illegally seizing property.
The president has reportedly directed aides to aggressively push ahead with construction and seize private land while glossing over environmental rules.
www.latimes.com
Children of deployed US troops are no longer guaranteed citizenship. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019)
Instead, those children must go through the naturalization process, which must be completed before their 18th birthday.
www.military.com
On Aug 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall
News reports in summer 2019 got many of the basic facts right about some planned defense-budget fund transfers.
www.snopes.com
On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuted war criminals
It's not the first time a tweeting Trump has interjected himself into the case.
www.navytimes.com
The move came after President Trump on Wednesday issued scathing tweets criticizing the prosecution conduct and the Navy's decision to give the awards.
www.npr.org
Trump denied a U.S. Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)
A deported Marine Corps veteran who has been blocked from returning to the U.S. for more than a decade was denied entry on Monday for a citizenship interview, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.Ro…
thehill.com
Border officials denied military veteran Roman Sabal entry to the US for a scheduled citizenship interview Monday. Sabal is one of seven deported veterans with pending citizenship cases.
www.pri.org
Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign event (July 4, 2019)
Government watchdogs say President Trump has moved more audaciously than any predecessor in modern times to use the power of the White House to further his reelection effort, dispensing with even the appearance of separating the trappings of his office from his political imperatives.
www.latimes.com
Here’s what would turn this “parade” into an illegal act.
slate.com
Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)
In June, 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence
Daily updates of everything that you need know about what is going on in the military community and abroad including military gear and equipment, breaking news, international news and more.
www.military.com
Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)
Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019)
New details about Trump's prenuptial agreement with Marla Maples came to light in a recent Vanity Fair article.
www.businessinsider.com
On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain
Not only did the White House request that the USS John S. McCain be "out of sight" for Trump's speech, but McCain sailors were reportedly turned away.
www.businessinsider.com
Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)
The White House asked the U.S. Navy to make sure a warship named for late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) would be “out of sight” ahead of President Trump’s visit to Japan over th…
thehill.com
Trump's admin did nothing to fix the purge of 200,000 vets' healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment system) even after a congressional testimony to point out the problem. (reported on May 13, 2019)
At least 200,000 applications for veterans' health care have been closed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
www.snopes.com
Under Trump's Admin, ICE deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)
ICE has deported the spouse of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving the couple's 12-year-old daughter in the United States without parents.
www.azcentral.com
On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral
"Not my kind of guy," the president says of the late Republican senator in his latest attack on him.
www.bbc.com
Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. and the generosity of private businesses like USAA and Navy Federal to cover their paychecks. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise
The optics, as they say, are not great!
www.vanityfair.com
He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/transgender-troops-ban.html
He tried to denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)
A judge issued a nationwide order preventing rules from taking effect that would allow employers to deny insurance coverage of contraceptives on religious or moral grounds.
www.nytimes.com
He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)
Last month federal immigration authorities took Jilmar Ramos-Gomez into custody to face possible deportation. He was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., served in the Marines and saw combat in Afghanistan.
www.npr.org
When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019)
The CFPB warned that if the man didn’t pay his $1 fine, he could be referred to a collection agency.
theintercept.com
He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)
In a New Year's Day post to Twitter, Trump said retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal is "known for [a] big, dumb mouth" and that he "got fired like a dog by Obama."
www.politico.com
He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)
An analysis of VA claims data shows that sending more vets to private care has not had the positive effects that were long promised by conservatives.
psmag.com
The plan sets up a clash with Democrats, who say the administration is thwarting congressional intent and will starve the VA health system to pay for private care.
www.propublica.org
He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)
"The reason their identities are protected is in case of capture," said intelligence expert Malcolm Nance.
www.nbcnews.com
Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018).
Next year's pay raise isn't the first in a decade, and it won't be a 10 percent increase, despite what the president told troops.
www.militarytimes.com
He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. 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.
He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays
https://time.com/5485126/lawsuit-air-force-discharge-hiv-positive-members/
“It’s disgusting that the Trump Administration is sending some men and women in uniform home for the holidays without jobs simply because of their HIV status.” (Alexandria, VA. December 19, 2018) – Today, Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN, with partner law firm Winston & Strawn, filed a lawsuit...
www.lambdalegal.org
He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018) This means disabled veterans could have seen their annual disability benefits fall from around $35,000 to around $13,000 under Donald Trump's budget proposal to cut "individual unemployability" for disabled veterans who were old enough to receive Social Security payments.
The president's plan did call for changes that would have had a significant financial impact on some disabled veterans, but the policy has been abandoned.
www.snopes.com
He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/22/trump-troops-thanksgiving/ medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)
If it was carried out, the president's call to finalize the preliminary election results before 16 November would discount ballots cast by Floridians overseas.
www.snopes.com
He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)
The White House cited weather concerns for the cancellation but the decision isn't sitting well with some European observers.
www.nbcnews.com
While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain -- other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)
President Donald Trump could not attend a commemoration in France for U.S. soldiers and marines killed during World War One on Saturday because rain made it impossible to arrange transport, the White House said.
www.cnbc.com
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)
Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018)
Turns out calculating where veterans are going to school is not an easy feat for the VA. A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a legislative fix.
www.vox.com
Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)
Previous reports have highlighted how the U.S. even deports veterans who join the military as non-citizens.
www.newsweek.com
Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)
While the active duty members themselves are protected — because in order to enlist a service member has to show proof that they are in the country legally — their undocumented spouses are not.
www.militarytimes.com
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)
The pregnant widow of a fallen U.S. soldier on Monday contradicted President Donald Trump’s account of his phone call about her husband’s death and said what he told her “made me cry even worse.”
www.militarytimes.com
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)
More than 16 years after 9/11 spurred a broad fight against terrorism, some Americans say it’s time to look at how the country is deploying its forces.
www.nytimes.com
The Pentagon has officially concluded its reviews of a 2017 ambush in the African nation of Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead.
apnews.com
Doesn't stand during retreat bugle, continues to talk. "What a nice sound that is. Are they playing that for you [Sean Hannity] or me?"
He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)
On Oct 3, 2016, Trump said vets get PTSD because they aren't strong
"They see events that you couldn’t see in a movie," he says of these veterans.
www.politico.com
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)
“I said to him, is that like the real one or is that a copy?” the Republican nominee said moments after taking the stage at a local high school.
www.politico.com
If you know how service members receive purple hearts, then you should also realize how absurd it is for trump to say what he did.
Trump attacks Gold Star families: Myeshia Johnson (gold star widow), Khan family (gold star parents) etc. (2016-present)
In an ABC interview, Mr. Trump implied that Ghazala Khan’s silence while her husband spoke about their soldier son’s death at the Democratic convention may have been because of her Muslim faith.
www.nytimes.com
Trump sent roughly half of funds raised from a Jan 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)
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla ruled that more than $2.8 million raised by the Trump Foundation had been "used for Mr. Trump's political campaign and disbursed by Mr. Trump's campaign staff, rather than by the Foundation" itself.
www.cnbc.com
Trump said he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015)
Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998)
Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.