Veterans groups blast Trump’s fundraiser as a political ploy

The Trump campaign said any money raised would first go to Trump’s family charitable foundation.

A progressive military veterans group accused Donald Trump of using servicemen and women “as a prop to hide behind” in order to get out of the Republican presidential debate Thursday.

Donald Trump does enough racist, xenophobic, bullying things that you can just incorporate his past racist, xenophobic, bullying behavior into whatever article you’re writing about him-if anything, this waters down genuine criticism, which Trump routinely attracts and deserves. Trump wrote a letter to his leftist friend, former mayor Michael Bloomberg, complaining of the vendors, “Whether they are veterans or not, they should not be allowed to sell on this most important and prestigious shopping street”. “But, you know what?”

“So for him to come out now and to self-righteously say, “I’m gonna stand up for veterans, and I’m going to do an event that I haven’t had time to do” until it was convenient for him tonight, many veterans are going to be turned off by this”, Ferguson said. “While we are grateful for this support, it is our honest wish that all who seek public office will provide the American public with substantive information on their vision for the future of veterans’ health care and benefits”. I mean, is there some benefit to this? Why are donations going to the Donald J. Trump Foundation? “I’m very greedy. I’m a greedy person”.

“We need strong policies from candidates, not to be used for political stunts”, Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) tweeted.

Ferguson was quick to fire back, asking Pierson if Trump is “running a business or running for president”. Would you consider taking money under these circumstances?

“I want to remind all the veterans who may be inclined to vote for Trump that he doesn’t understand veterans”, Barrera said. And there’s been more than $20 billion spent within the G.I. bill. “You can join me now”. They criticize the way veterans’ issues have been handled by the current administration, especially on the Republican side.

Seth Lynn, executive director of DC-based Veterans Campaign, which prepares veterans for second careers in civil service, says that politicians latching on to the “halo effect” of veterans and veterans issues is old news.

According to conservative political commentator Anne Coulter, the event will air on CNN, but the network now does not have any Trump-related event listed in their Thursday night lineup.