Posted on 03/06/2016 3:12:59 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Decorated veterans are going after Donald Trump’s character in hard-hitting new Florida ads designed to drive down the Republican presidential front-runner’s popularity to stop him winning the crucial winner-take-all state on March 15.
In new attack ads, released by conservative nonprofit American Future Fund within a multimillion-dollar rotation, two veterans, Afghanistan Special Forces Commander Lt. Col. Michael Waltz and retired Vietnam pilot and prisoner of war Lt. Col. Tom Hanton, hit Trump for dodging the draft in Vietnam, “serving only himself,” and for criticizing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being captured during the Vietnam War.
American Future Fund spokesman Stuart Roy said in an email to The Hill Saturday that the group is swapping out its current ads in the Florida Panhandle for the new veteran ads and said it "will be adding new money there on Monday, as well."
“The Panhandle is full of active and retired military. Think Eglin Air Force Base, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Hulburt Field, Naval Support Activity Panama City, and Tyndall Air Force Base.”
In one of the ads, Waltz tells viewers to put a stop Trump's campaign.
“Donald Trump hasn’t served this country a day in his life, essentially dodged the draft in Vietnam through multiple deferments,” Waltz says, speaking directly into the camera. “All Donald Trump has served is himself. Don’t let Donald Trump fool you. Look into his real record and stop Trump now."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I’m not sure he was; I thought he had medical deferments.
Screw them.
Trump’s got to come out and start hitting cruz on things like his misleading Texas voters on his citizenship status when he ran for the Senate. And on cruz’s support of TPA and his vote for the corker bill. There are a lot of very big issues to hit cruz on and it is time to show where cruz has flat out lied to the voters and sided with the GOPe over his own constituents.
So the decorated Veterans are lying
But now he’ll be the healthiest president ever?
He lied about having bone spurs to avoid the draft.
“Conservative PAC” trash. Trump didnt dodge anything!
Just which candidate are they pitching for?
The Trump Banshees have been shouting down Cruz supporters for weeks now, but the volume of pro-Cruz postings is increasing exponentially. Looks like a building victory for reason over rhetoric.
Wouldn’t be the first time.
Remember, Benedict Arnold was once a great hero.
Several of the guys who came back from the Hanoi Hilton were discretely retired “for the good of the service”.
And the link to the proof of that statement?
Uh huh. Sure. So we can take the word of one of the more rabid braying trumpeters...or we can do a little research. I choose the latter and I’ll let others make their own decision:
Now, in 3....2....1....you’ll attack either me or the source of that article. It’s how you trumpeters roll.
You mean rise of the establishment.
He wasn’t! He at first had a college deferment. So did I and millions of others. Then when he did take the physical, they found bone spurs on his heel. Probably would have needed surgery. A deferment. I was also deferred for a medical reason. Not uncommon.
Yup, they are.
Doesn’t matter who they are.
This stuff is documented. If people that think he did have some proof then put it on screen, not hide behind a military uniform of two people that didn’t even bother to furnish proof.
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