Arizona GOP s Trump Picture Sparks Comparisons to Benedict Arnold
On 12/29/20 at 3:27 PM EST
An image the Arizona Republican Party shared of President Donald Trump on Monday inspired the term Benedict Arnold to trend on Twitter as users drew comparisons between Trump and a famous painting of the Revolutionary War defector.
The Arizona GOP tweeted the painting of Trump on Monday afternoon. In the painting, Trump is wearing a military uniform that looks like it s from the late 1700s while holding an American flag in his left hand and touching a handgun with his right hand. A flying eagle is also pictured over his left shoulder.
Veterans Call on Dan Crenshaw to Resign for Alleged Role in Disparaging Female Vet
On 12/16/20 at 3:00 PM EST
At least two veterans groups, along with more than a thousand individual former service members and Department of Defense civilians, have called for the resignation of Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) over his alleged role in helping a top Trump administration official collect discrediting information about a female veteran who said she was sexually assaulted.
Common Defense, a progressive veterans group, joined the likes of the left-leaning organization Vote Vets on Wednesday in calling for the first-term lawmaker to step aside after an independent government watchdog report said he tried to disparage the victim, Andrea Goldstein, by feeding information to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie that could disparage her reputation.
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kurds, or to save human life or to honor our promises as a nation. instead, we will leave those u.s. troops there to secure the region s oil. as trump tweeted out today what are we getting out of the deal? i simply say, the oil. here with me, former u.s. army officer and veteran of the iraq war, john saltz, chairman and co-founder of vote vets, an advocacy organization for veterans, an odd vocation organization that has had a lot more to do because of the amount of time that america has spent in the middle east. donald trump has some audience when he says we need to get out of there, but this is not what a lot of people in the military are saying is the way to do it. you know, if donald trump came up with a plan to leave syria, i think that there would be a lot of cross-partisan support for it. and i think overall what we ve seen in the last two weeks was foreign policy by tweet. and you could look at the data point from people that work at central command in tampa to people th
ago. the two men loathe each other. so, you know, we are setting up here for a new twist in this war and it s a very dangerous one. our chief global correspondent, bill neely there for us. bill, thank you, be safe, we ll check in with you soon. let s bring in will goodwin, director of vote vets, a progressive active organization on veteran issues, he s a u.s. army veteran. and evelyn farkis, an msnbc foreign policy contributor. will, let me start with you, you re a veteran. we ve seen reports of u.s. troop morale sinking over this troop pullout in northern syria. what signal does it send to troops who are sent in to do a job and then withdrawn quickly? craig, we ve heard from veterans and service members who are shocked and appalled by president trump s betrayal of the kurds, and also really worried about what it means for