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Military Veterans Call For Trump’s Impeachment In New Video
Vets call the president a “criminal” and question his loyalty in the video produced by veterans group Common Defense and billionaire Tom Steyer.
By Mary Papenfuss
07/04/2019 09:09 PM ET
As Donald Trump insisted military leaders he ordered to join him at his controversial July Fourth bash were “thrilled” to be there, a group of veterans issued a video Thursday calling for the president’s impeachment.
“Not only is [Trump] cruel — I believe he’s also a criminal,” says Marine Corps vet Marie Delus, one of several former service members in the video created by the veterans group Common Defense in conjunction with Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer’s organization Need to Impeach.
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Steyer’s group has gathered more than 8.2 million signatures on an online petition calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings, largely based on the report of special counsel Robert Mueller detailing Russian interference in the 2016 election and Trump’s attempts to obstruct Mueller’s investigation.
Mueller found that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s regime actively sought to help Trump and that Trump’s campaign welcomed that help ― but that there was insufficient evidence to charge a criminal conspiracy.
The veterans featured in the video were less circumspect in their assessments. July Fourth is about “celebrating our independence from foreign powers,” says Army veteran Perry O’Brien. “How can we do that when we have someone in the White House who actively conspired with a foreign adversary to get there?” he asked.
Marine Corps vet Alexander McCoy says his job was protecting American embassies from foreign infiltration. “I never suspected our commander in chief would be colluding with a foreign dictator to undermine our democracy,” he added.
Common Defense lead organizer and Marine Corps vet Kyle Bibby said he doesn’t believe Trump is “serious about our values ... [or] serious about his job to serve the American people.”
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In another veteran’s broadside against the president on Thursday, journalist Elliott Woods, who served in Iraq with the Virginia Army National Guard, mocked Trump’s fascination with outmoded military tanks in a world of sophisticated insurgencies and cyberwarfare. Woods said in an op-ed for The New York Times that Trump, who avoided the draft with a medical deferment for bone spurs, has “never been closer to warfare than has a child playing on the floor with toy tanks and green plastic army men.”
Trump’s “fondness for tanks is part of the insidious nostalgia that undergirds his entire ‘Make America Great Again’ ideology,” Woods wrote. Trump has “promised his followers that he can take them back to that time — and they seem ready to believe him.”
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LOL. This is obviously a crock of shit thread meant to troll Trump supporters.. The majority of veterans love Trump so nice try, pootyt/bashy, but you failed... AGAIN.
I'm a USN vet myself and I don't want him impeached because he's done nothing wrong despite what you snowflake lefties think. I'm sure other vets (like Broly) don't want him impeached either. Pooty/bashy is just mad because he realizes Trump is very popular among vets and he's scared of Trump winning again in 2020 (which he will).
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
Lulz the only movement that video inspired me to partake in is a bowel movement It was powerfully moving and inspiring.......
They look like a decent enough group, best to focus their energy on creating real change rather than more lame impeach him now, keep that grass movement strong in local govt.
Amazeballs! Considering we have over 330 million folks in the US getting to 8.2 million since 2016 with as much hate some of the left has for Trump is disappointing.
ueller, in addition to concluding that evidence was insufficient to charge any American with crimes relating to Russian election interference, also stated emphatically in numerous instances that there was no evidence – not merely that there was insufficient evidence to obtain a criminal conviction – that key prongs of this three-year-old conspiracy theory actually happened. As Mueller himself put it: “in some instances, the report points out the absence of evidence or conflicts in the evidence about a particular fact or event.”
I don't think they were fooled, they look like a small group and they represent a relatively small group of people who obviously feel they need to spread their beliefs, good for them.
You can hate Tom Steyer's politics all you want but the man puts his money where his mouth is and makes an effort to help those less fortunate.
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This sorta reminds me of religion. No matter what, people believe what they want/need to believe. No changing those minds so best to get stepping and forge ahead.
Just go ahead and copy and paste a quote directly from the Mueller report where it says EXTACTLY WORD FOR WORD that Trump CONSPIRED OR COLLUDED with the RUSSIANS
Until then you are just ignoring facts and reality.
No real surprise, but just wanted to see who this Meyer guy was. Would have meant more if he was just another disgruntled veteran/Conservative, instead of a "liberal activist".
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
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It was powerfully moving and inspiring.......
