Donald Trump, whose diagnosis of bone spurs kept him from being sent to that same war, has repeatedly denigrated the American war dead as “losers” and “suckers,” and has expressed disgust in the presence of wounded troops (“No one wants to see that, the wounded,” Trump once complained to the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Representative Seth Moulton, a veteran and Democrat from Massachusetts, responded with his own post to say that Trump is “a horrible human being and an embarrassment to the United States.” His colleague Dan Goldman, a former federal prosecutor, said, “Mueller and Trump represent polar opposites of what a public servant should be.” Trump made no secret of why he did it: The very next day, he hosted the Russian ambassador in the Oval Office and told him that firing Comey had “taken off” the “great pressure” that Trump had faced over the investigation.
Author: Jonathan Lemire
Published at: 2026-03-21 21:15:09
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