Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump's reported remarks about wounded veteran

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Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump’s reported remarks about wounded veteran
Ex-president reportedly told Gen Mark Milley in 2019 that severely wounded soldier should be banned from public appearances
Adam Gabbatt
@adamgabbatt
Sun 24 Sep 2023 13.19 EDT
Last modified on Sun 24 Sep 2023 13.47 EDT


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“Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded,” Milley said Trump told him after the ceremony.

Milley told the Atlantic that Trump said Avila should never appear in public again.

On Sunday, Buttigieg – who was a lieutenant in the US navy reserve and served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2014 – told CNN that Trump’s alleged order was “just the latest in a pattern of outrageous attacks [by Trump] on people who keep this country safe”.

Military members wounded in combat, Buttigieg said, “deserve respect and a hell of a lot more than that from every American, and definitely from every American president”.

Buttigieg also said: “The idea that an American president, the person to whom service members look as a commander in chief, the person who sets the tone for this entire country, could think that way or act that way or talk that way about anyone in uniform, and certainly about those who put their bodies on the line and sacrificed in ways that most Americans will never understand … I guess wounded veterans make president Trump feel uncomfortable.”

Trump has a previously attacked members of the military. In 2020, the Atlantic reported that Trump had said the Aisne-Marne American cemetery – where more than 2,000 American military members who died in France are buried – was “filled with suckers”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/24/pete-buttigieg-donald-trump-wounded-veteran-remarks

[musclecar6]

1. As always

When our National Disgrace speaks, he brings to mind 2 words . Sometimes more than others, like now when he has the audacity to disparage our heroic veterans. Despicable and deplorable.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Add demented. nt

[Cha]

2. The Military should Not be Voting for

magats that don't give a shit about them.

They need to Wake UP!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. TFG's loathing for an injured war hero speaks more volumes about his low, repulsive character

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