Subject: ICYMI: Military Times: Trump faces mounting attacks on veterans issues
From: Hillary For America Press <[email-masked]>
To: Hillary for America Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:27:59 -0400
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CNN reported this morning that four months after Donald Trump supposedly
raised $6 million for veterans charities, over half the money remains
unaccounted for -- and that’s just one reason he's taking more and more
heat from our veterans.

*Watch an excerpt from CNN’s segment today, and check out the full Military
Times rundown below:*

VIDEO: CNN's New Day on Trump's Missing Veterans' Donations, 5/10/16
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzw4ixx6MPo&feature=youtu.be>

DREW GRIFFIN: “We've got $6 million, half of it accounted for, half of it
not. We've been asking for four months now from this campaign, 'where did
it go?' We ask this of charities all across the nation, as you know, Chris,
it's not hard to do. So we're just asking again: Trump campaign, please,
tell us where the money is, where it's going.”

CHRIS CUOMO: “Well, it matters. It matters because it involves veterans and
it's about the follow-through of the campaign, so we'll stay on it.”

Trump faces mounting attacks on veterans issues
<http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/election/2016/05/09/trump-faces-attacks-veterans-issues/84134896/>

Military Times | Leo Shane III

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took heavy criticism over
his treatment of veterans this weekend from Democrats and his own party.

In a Sunday interview on CNN, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John
McCain, R-Ariz., expressed serious concerns about Trump as the next
commander in chief, particularly in light of comments he made last fall
mocking McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War.

“What he said about me, that's fine,” McCain said. “I don't require any
repair of that. But when he said ‘I don't like people who were captured,’
then there's a great body of American heroes that would like to see him
retract that statement.”

McCain's comments come amid a flurry of high-profile party leaders who say
they won't endorse the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Last
week, Air Force Reserve veteran Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he would
not back his one-time campaign trail rival and even would skip the
Republican convention this summer.

Trump has repeatedly denied that his comments were a slight to prisoners of
war, and maintained that veterans know he has the utmost respect for those
who served in the military. McCain disagreed.

“I think it's important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for
veterans, not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners
of war,” he said.

Members of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign
seized on those comments, releasing a letter from 50 prominent veterans
calling on Trump to “stop using vets as political props, donate the rest of
the money he raised and build a real understanding of the needs and
concerns of the men and women who have served America.”

The donation mention calls back to Trump’s veterans-themed fundraiser in
February, organized as a protest of a Fox News debate. Trump announced the
event had raised $6 million for veterans charities, but campaign officials
have refused repeated requests to account for all of the money.

The letter calls Trump’s campaign missteps part of a larger pattern of
disrespect for troops and veterans, and blasted the business mogul for
“putting our future veterans at risk with a risky and incoherent foreign
policy.”

The list of veterans supporting Clinton includes former Georgia Sen. Max
Cleland, current Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego and Massachusetts Rep. Seth
Moulton, and a host of activists who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan
wars.

Trump’s campaign did not directly respond to either attack, but the
candidate did appear on CNN again Monday morning to defend his policies
toward veterans.'

“I don't want to be hurting our vets,” he said. “We treat illegal
immigrants better than we treat our vets. So I'm going to do nothing to
hurt our vets. I'm going to only help our vets.”

He also accused Clinton of thinking that veterans “are getting too much,”
but said he did not support current efforts by veterans groups to keep GI
Bill benefit funding from being moved into other veterans programs.

Instead, he promised “to bring jobs back to our country” and shifted
questions to how free trade deals have hurt the American economy.

Democratic National Committee spokesman Eric Walker called Trump a serial
liar on veterans issues, “so it comes as no surprise that he opposes the GI
Bill, which has helped millions of veterans obtain jobs, housing, education
and economic security.”

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