Subject: Veterans Protest Trump’s Empty Promises
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 22:09:26 +0000

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A number of veterans today protested outside Trump Tower in New York to bring attention to Donald Trump’s use of veterans as political props and his empty promises when it comes to charitable donations.

Veterans Protest Donald Trump Over Charity Pledge<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/05/23/veterans-protest-donald-trump-over-charity-pledge/>
Wall Street Journal
A dozen military veterans protested outside Trump Tower in New York City on Monday morning, accusing Donald Trump of using former soldiers as props for his presidential campaign. “We’re here as a group of veterans to reject Donald Trump,” said protest organizer Alexander McCoy, a 27-year-old former Marine. He said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee failed to follow through on a promise to raise and donate millions of dollars to veterans. The Wall Street Journal reported in April<http://www.wsj.com/articles/veterans-charities-await-funds-raised-by-donald-trump-1460069309> that more than two months after Mr. Trump said he had raised $6 million for veterans when he skipped a GOP debate in January to host a fundraiser, far less than that had actually been disbursed.

Military vets protest in front of Trump Tower, demanding that presumptive GOP nominee apologize for exaggerating fundraising for vets<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/vets-protest-front-trump-tower-article-1.2646974>
New York Daily News
A group of more than 20 veterans gathered in protest outside Trump Tower Monday, demanding that the presumptive GOP nominee apologize for exaggerating his donations to vets groups. Former Marine Alexander McCoy and Army veteran Perry O’Brien, who led the demonstration, have repeatedly said that Trump overstated the amount of money he raised at a Jan. 28 fundraiser for veterans causes to inflate his reputation among Republicans. "(Of) the $6 million that Donald Trump supposedly raised for veterans charities, a significant portion of that money either never existed or it just vanished,” O'Brien, 34, who served in Afghanistan for over three years, told the Daily News as his fellow veterans and their supporters touted signs reading “Vets Vs Hate.” “It’s part of a very troubling pattern of Donald Trump consistently using veterans as political props, and exploiting men and women who are former service members for his own political gain,” he said. “Many of us … are particularly concerned that he has been using veterans to advance an agenda of bigotry and hate that is not shared by the majority of military and veteran community.”

Tri-State Area Veterans To Donald Trump: Where’s The Money?<http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/23/trump-veterans-fundraiser-protest/>
CBS New York
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump skipped a debate in January and held a fundraiser instead, claiming to have raised $6 million for veterans. Now a group of vets is asking: where’s the money? … The Trump campaign admitted recently the amount of money raised was about $4.5 million. But the vets’ objections to Trump were more than financial. “The missing money is part of a longer pattern of using veterans as political props,” said Perry O’Brien, who served in Afghanistan. “Donald Trump has never served. As far as those of us who are gathered here can see, Donald Trump only seems interested in serving himself.”

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