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The family of a decorated Green Beret whose gravestone come out in Trump’s infamous “thumbs up” photo at Arlington Cemetery just blindsided Trump with a brutal public takedown.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Trump Makes INAPPROPRIATE MOVE At Grave Of FALLEN SOLDIER
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Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery today — and he made a very inappropriate move right at the foot of the grave of one of America’s fallen soldiers. He just can’t help himself… 
Sunday, June 9, 2024
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
RSN: FOCUS | John Fogerty: 'Confounding' That Trump Campaign Played 'Fortunate Son' at Rally
12 September 20
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FOCUS | John Fogerty: 'Confounding' That Trump Campaign Played 'Fortunate Son' at Rally
Morgan Gstalter, The Hill
Gstalter writes: "Rock icon John Fogerty on Friday said it was 'confounding' that President Trump's campaign would use his hit song 'Fortunate Son' at a rally given the song's blunt criticisms about class privilege during the Vietnam War."
The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman made a video explaining his experience writing the song after the Trump campaign played the hit while the president walked off Air Force One ahead of his rally in Freeland, Mich., on Thursday.
“I wrote the song back in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War," Fogerty said in a video. “By the time I wrote the song, I had already been drafted and had served in the military. And I’ve been a livelong supporter of our guys and gals in the military, probably because of that experience.”
Fogerty said he wrote the song, in part, because he was “upset” about how rich people with privilege and money could avoid the draft.
“I found that very upsetting that such a thing could occur and that’s why I wrote ‘Fortunate Son,’” he said. "That was the inspiration for the song."
He noted the opening lyrics of the song read: “Some folks are born, made to wave the flag / Ooh, their red, white and blue / And when the band plays ‘Hail to the Chief’ / Ooh, they point the cannon at you.”
Fogerty said that’s “exactly what happened” in Lafayette Square near the White House in June when federal officers used force to clear Black Lives Matter protesters ahead of Trump's visit to a nearby church for a photo-op.
“It’s a song I could have written now, so I find it confusing, I would say, that the president has chosen to use my song for his political rallies, when in fact it seems like he is probably the fortunate son,” he concluded.
Trump received five deferments from the military draft during the Vietnam War. He was was granted a 1-Y medical deferment for a bone spurs diagnosis, in addition to four educational deferments, that allowed him to avoid the draft.
Democrats have criticized Trump over the deferments, with Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a veteran who lost both of her legs when her helicopter was shot down over Iraq, nicknaming Trump “Cadet Bone Spurs.”
Trump’s former personal attorney and self-described “fixer” Michael Cohen last year testified before Congress that Trump’s claims about a medical condition were false.
In his opening statement before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cohen said that Trump told him there “was no surgery” for bone spurs and instructed him not to answer reporters’ specific questions about his draft deferment.
“He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment,” Cohen added. “He finished the conversation with the following comment. ‘You think I’m stupid? I wasn’t going to Vietnam.’”
In 2018, the daughters of a New York podiatrist Larry Braunstein told The New York Times that they believed their father gave Trump the bone spurs diagnosis as a favor to Trump’s father, who was the doctor’s landlord.
“I know it was a favor,” said Elysa Braunstein, whose father died in 2007. The Trumps sold the building in 2004.
“What he got was access to Fred Trump,” she continued. “If there was anything wrong in the building, my dad would call and Trump would take care of it immediately. That was the small favor that he got.”
Trump had told the Times during the 2016 campaign that he did not remember the name of the doctor who gave him the diagnosis.
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
UnAmerican
Donald Trump can’t comprehend what it means to sacrifice. He’s un-American. Serving the nation is the epitome of American honor
Sunday, July 12, 2020
SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost both of her legs in the Iraq War, calls President Trump a "draft dodger" amid the ongoing debate about the government shutdown.
Friday, June 26, 2020
RSN: John Kiriakou | Steal John Bolton's Book
26 June 20
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RSN: John Kiriakou | Steal John Bolton's Book
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Kiriakou writes: "My ex-wife once told me that I never saw a bridge I didn't want to burn. That wasn't entirely true. But I do like to call things as I see them."
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Kiriakou writes: "My ex-wife once told me that I never saw a bridge I didn't want to burn. That wasn't entirely true. But I do like to call things as I see them."
Now it’s John Bolton’s turn to burn every bridge he’s built or otherwise encountered in more than 30 years in Washington. His new book, The Room Where It Happened, is in bookstores now, and it’s clear from a quick read that Bolton likes literally nobody. He apparently has never liked anybody. And he’s perfectly happy to give you his side of the story.
First, don’t buy this book. Don’t do John Bolton the favor. Get it from the library if you feel truly compelled to read it. I can’t legally tell you to read one of the many bootleg copies on the internet, but they’re there as well. Second, I want to say on the record that I have always loathed John Bolton. When I was at the CIA, he was a constant thorn in our side. I never met any policymaker who so loved war that he was willing to jump into it with both feet as much as John Bolton. His hatred of foreign governments that did not line up with our own – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba immediately come to mind – was irrational. He wanted to fight even when there was no intelligence to show that the policy was a wise one. And don’t forget that he was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War.
Political memoirs are a very important genre in Washington, DC. They have become wildly popular in the past couple of decades, as senior officials cash in at the end of their government service, get their side of modern history on the record, and then live happily ever after on their massive book advances. Everybody does it – Democrats and Republicans alike. But those memoirs are usually vehicles for showing the writer as a statesman, as a historical figure living among us. Think of Robert Gates, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, et al. Love them or hate them, Washington insiders will read, reread, and refer to these tomes for years to come. Not so with Bolton’s.
Bolton’s book is a political hit job on everybody who crossed him during his tenure in the Trump White House, but mostly on Trump. It’s a mean-spirited poison pen that will likely preclude Bolton from working in any future White House. Bolton’s stories are meant to demean those with whom he worked as not up to his intellectual level. Their policies were stupid or misguided. They lacked the kind of experience Bolton had in the upper echelons of government. Most of his ire, though is aimed at Trump. And these stories say more about John Bolton than about the targets of his complaints.
- Bolton describes Trump as “crass, lacking in intelligence, subject to huge mood swings, and usually very impressed with the last person who spoke with him, whoever that was.” He goes on, “I don’t think [Trump] is fit for office. I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job."
- Bolton writes that Trump practically prostrated himself before Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2019, asking the Premier to help him get reelected in 2020: “Buy a lot of soybeans and wheat and make sure we win,” Trump allegedly said.
- Bolton tells a bizarre story where Trump recounts to him a tiff between Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. In Trump’s telling of the story, Tillerson referred to Haley as a “c**t.” Bolton says that Tillerson had a lot of faults, but vulgarity wasn’t one of them. He challenged Trump on the language, but Trump stuck to his guns. Bolton concludes that the incident said much more about Trump than about Tillerson.
Trump’s response to all of this has been predictable. He has called Bolton a “traitor” and a “liar,” sued him (and lost), and spoken publicly about seizing the book profits. He’s enlisted White House loyalists to do the same. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also called Bolton a “traitor,” and trade advisor Peter Navarro called the book “deep swamp revenge porn.”
One thing is clear to the reader by the end of this book. John Bolton is no hero. He’s not a truth-teller. He’s not a whistleblower or a martyr. He’s a jilted lover taking one last potshot at the partner who betrayed him. This is his revenge. It’ll soon be forgotten.
John Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act - a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush administration's torture program.
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