Speaking at a police hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Friday, Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D.
Vance (R-OH), claimed the ex-president's recent comments about the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Medal of Honor were taken out of context. Trump's controversial statement came when he talked about giving the Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson, the widow of late GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson. “That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian.
It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version,” Trump said. “It’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,” Trump said.
“She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for — and that’s through committees and everything else.” Read Also: Harris has figured out Trump’s greatest liability Vance on Friday defended Trump and cited his relationships with veterans.
"Look, I was with a group of veterans yesterday, and trust me, the veteran community is behind Donald Trump," he claimed. "What President Trump said during the ceremony — and I haven't seen the entire remarks — President Trump said that a person who received the Medal of Freedom — he was saying some nice things about her. Donald Trump, I have seen give out a Congressional Medal of Honor.
I have seen him give out a number of awards and commendations to military veterans." "Of course, I myself am a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War," Vance continued. "This is a guy who loves and honors our veterans.
I don't think he complements things, and saying a nice word about a person who received a Medal of Freedom is in any way denigrating those who receive military honors. They are two different awards, and the president said some nice things about a person he liked. That is a reasonable thing to do.
" While Trump did say "nice things" about Adelson, Trump said that the civilian award was better because no one had to get shot or hurt in war to get it. This is also not the first time Trump has either implicitly or explicitly disparaged the service of veterans. Back in 2015, for example, he attacked the late Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ) for being a prisoner of war. “ I like people that weren’t captured,” Trump said then . Gen.
John Kelly and other staffers recalled in a report that Trump didn't want to go to the graves of American soldiers who died during World War II while it was raining. He called the fallen soldiers "losers" and "suckers." Trump then denied saying it.
After watching Vance's defense of Trump, conservative Bill Kristol argued that it didn't hold any water. "Trump: The Medal of Freedom is the 'equivalent' of--'actually much better' than--the Medal of Freedom. Vance: Trump didn't say what we all saw him say.
Orwell: The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." See Vance's comments below or at this link .
- YouTube www.youtube.com J.
D. Vance traveled with his dog to a campaign event in Milwaukee, and many saw that as a stunt intended to soften his image. The Republican vice presidential candidate has been trying to run away from the "weird" descriptor that's seemingly stuck to him since his Democratic rival Tim Walz applied it last month, but taking his German shepherd Atlas to a campaign stop in the city where he officially joined Donald Trump's GOP ticket doesn't seem to have worked as well as he might have hoped.
"This is ridiculous," said former Trump campaign adviser A.J. Delgado, who is now an outspoken critic.
"'Let's try to make him seem normal.' Taking a dog on a plane all the way to Milwaukee is not kind to the dog. Moreover, he never once campaigned with his dog when he ran for Senate.
This is using a dog for pandering. Try-hard and WEIRD." ALSO READ: 'Disqualifies himself': Veterans blast Trump for 'disrespectful' remarks about war heroes Vance and the dog got out of a Secret Service vehicle in the rain, and the Ohio Republican held an umbrella in his right hand and loosely held a leash tethered to a harness that appeared to be improperly buckled around the dog's upper torso.
"Did Atlas shrug?" asked X user Kes Bretagne. "Why are you showing me a video of a man who looks like he has never held a leash in his life?" said X user 504yaknow. " JD Vance five minutes before this video: We have a dog?!" joked X user Ashley Hawthorne.
"All working dog trainers are cringing at that harness situation right now," added X user Brando Marlón. "Cringe," said X user Trixe- I. "He just keeps getting weirder by the day.
" Conservative influencer John Cardillo found himself in disbelief watching former President Donald Trump say that it's "better" to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom than the Congressional Medal of Honor on the grounds that most people who receive the latter honor are soldiers who are either wounded or dead. During remarks made on Thursday evening, Trump paid tribute to GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson, who received the Medal of Freedom from Trump back in 2018. "When we gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
.. it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, it’s actually much better because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal, they’re soldiers," Trump said at the time.
"They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. She gets it and she’s a healthy beautiful woman." ALSO READ: How Trump's new gibberish speeches are alienating swing voters Cardillo responded to this statement by simply writing, "WHY??!!" on Twitter .
Many Trump supporters then flooded his replies with angry messages, but Cardillo didn't back down. "Did you even watch it?" questioned conservative J.D.
Sharp. "Yes, and it’s even worse," Cardillo replied. "There is no context where this is remotely acceptable.
It’s f------ stupid. If you want to win, stop excusing stuff like this." In response to another critic who said he might be misinterpreting Trump, Cardillo replied, "There is no justification for this at all.
None. I don't get what he's trying to say." Not all of Cardillo's followers disagreed with him, however.
After one of them wrote that "it's getting harder...
to believe [Trump] wants to win," Cardillo replied by simply writing, "Seriously." Donald Trump was caught out Friday doing something at Mar-a-Lago the New York Times reports he doesn't want the public to know about: debate prep. Reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report the former president has looped in former Rep.
Tulsi Gabbard to help sharpen his attack tactics when it comes time to debate Vice President Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania on Sept. 10. "Trump likes to say he doesn’t need to prepare for debates, and his team is under instructions to use the term 'policy time' to describe their sessions," the Times reports.
"But Mr. Trump has spent more time this year practicing for debates than he did in either 2016 or 2020, according to advisers who have worked with him." ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure The Times describes Trump's first debate against President Joe Biden in 2020 as "disastrous" but notes the tables turned this year when Biden's poor debate performance spurred concerns that he was unfit to mount a successful reelection campaign.
Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022 over concerns about "wokeness," was once able to "eviscerate" Harris during a 2020 Democratic presidential debate by attacking her prosecutorial record, the Times states. "[Harris] put over 1,500 hundred people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when asked if she ever smoked marijuana," Gabbard said. "She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
" Harris did laugh in an interview during which she admitted to having smoked and inhaled marijuana, but a Mercury News fact check later found most defendants charged with low-level pot possession charges were not incarcerated . A Sacramento Bee fact check from 2019 notes the innocence of the man who found himself on death row had not yet been determined . Such attacks on Harris' prosecutorial record could prove difficult to replicate considering Trump has been convicted on felony charges and, as the Times reports, Gabbard's attacks "all came from the left.
".
