Biden: Trump 'completely uninformed' on veterans and PTSD

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

Vice President Joe Biden chastised Donald Trump Monday for his comments about veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), calling the GOP presidential nominee "thoroughly and completely uninformed."

Many have interpreted remarks Trump made Monday about veterans and PTSD as a slight, though the campaign insists his comments were misrepresented by the media.

"Where in the hell is he from?" Biden asked at a campaign stop for Hillary Clinton in Sarasota, Fla. "I don't think he was trying to be mean. He is just so thoroughly, completely uninformed."

Biden, who said he has been "in and out" of Afghanistan and Iraq more than 29 times, said the U.S. has only one sacred obligation and that is to "care for those we send to war and to care for them and their family when they come home."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299069-biden-trump-thoroughly-completely-uninformed-on-veterans

[Warpy]

1. Thanks Joe

but don't expect a narcissistic putz who thinks he knows everything to be educable.

[Egnever]

2. Sick em Joe!

[niyad]

3. sorry, joe, I disagree. this bastard IS mean, ugly, thoroughly uninformed, and pleased

to be so.

[dflprincess]

4. Somedays I really love Joe

Pity there can't be a debate between him and Trump.

[tammywammy]

5. Trump's statement was along the lines of his slam against McCain

“He’s not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317#ixzz4M4t0pa6w

Same shitty stance.

[riversedge]

6. Joe Biden Incinerates Donald Trump’s Suggestion That Vets With PTSD Aren’t Strong

I do think Trump has a horrible mean streak in him.



Joe Biden Incinerates Donald Trump’s Suggestion That Vets With PTSD Aren’t Strong

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/03/joe-biden-incinerates-donald-trumps-suggestion-vets-ptsd-strong.html

By Sean Colarossi on Mon, Oct 3rd, 2016 at 8:52 pm

"I don't think [Trump] was trying to be mean. He is just so thoroughly, completely uninformed."

Today, Donald Trump suggested that veterans returning from combat who are struggling with PTSD aren’t “strong” and “can’t handle it.”

Vice President Joe Biden was having none of that at a Hillary Clinton campaign event earlier today in Florida where he lashed out as Trump as “thoroughly and completely uninformed.”

Video:

Biden said:

Where in the hell is he from? No, no, no, no, this is deadly earnest. My son spent a year in Iraq, came back a highly decorated veteran, bronze star and a lot else. I’ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan over 29 times. I found myself in Iraq being asked…to pin a silver medal on a young captain who had pulled someone out of a burning humvee, risking his life, and when I went to pin it on him in front of the entire brigade, he stood and looked at me and said, ‘Sir I don’t want the medal, I don’t want the medal.’ You know why? He said, ‘He died, Mr. Vice President, I don’t want the medal.’ How many nights does that kid go to sleep seeing that image in his head, dealing with it?…I don’t think [Trump] was trying to be mean. He is just so thoroughly, completely uninformed.