Trump's actions are an 'assault on the honor of this country,' Afghanistan vet Pete Buttigieg slams the president for 'slander against veterans'
Daily Mail
May 26, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday charged President Donald Trump with committing an 'assault on the honor of this country' for 'taking advantage of his privileged status' to avoid serving in the Vietnam War and accused him of 'slander against veterans.'
Buttigieg, on Memorial Day weekend, did not hold back from criticizing Trump's lack of military service in Vietnam. 'To any reasonable observer that the president found a way to falsify a disabled status, taking advantage of his privileged status in order to avoid serving,' Buttigieg, who served in Afghanistan, said on ABC's 'This Week.'
'You have somebody who thinks it's alright to let somebody go in his place into a deadly war, and is willing to pretend to be disabled in order to do it,' he noted.
The mayor of South Bend, Ind., also slammed Trump for considering pardons for several American military members accused or convicted of war crimes.
'The idea that being sent to war turns you into a murderer is exactly the kind of thing that those of us who have served have been trying to beat back for more than a generation,' Buttigieg said.
'For a president, especially a president who never served, to say he's going to come in and overrule that system of military justice undermines the very foundations, legal and moral, of this country. Frankly, his idea, that being sent to fight makes you automatically into some kind of war criminal is a slander against veterans that could only come from somebody who never served,' he noted.
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I am confident he will continue in this vein. He served. Trump didn't. His opponent's didn't either, at least mostly. It is a valid wedge and he will use it. Whether he will use it effectively is another issue.
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