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Simeon Salus

(1,132 posts)
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 11:40 AM Jul 2016

This is the kind of wall Trump will force us to build, and we will end up all paying for it

Last edited Sun Jul 31, 2016, 01:25 PM - Edit history (2)



The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 2-acre (8,000 m²) national memorial in Washington, DC. It honors U.S. service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were unaccounted for (Missing In Action) during the War.


Ironically, Trump brags he was responsible for building this wall, but it turns out he skipped every meeting except the first one and another where a journalist was profiling him for attending.

What a scumbag...

On edit, my first change was to fix the image (thanks NurseJackie), second is to acknowledge that draft-dodger Drumpf had actually bailed out on a completely different veteran's memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Plaza. (thanks Motley13 and Brother Buzz).
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This is the kind of wall Trump will force us to build, and we will end up all paying for it (Original Post) Simeon Salus Jul 2016 OP
why didn't my image render? Simeon Salus Jul 2016 #1
The colon ":" prevents the DU software from properly embedding the image. NurseJackie Jul 2016 #2
thanks Simeon Salus Jul 2016 #7
There will be wars if Trump becomes president liberal N proud Jul 2016 #3
Leader of New York Veterans Group Defends Donald Trump oberliner Jul 2016 #4
He was talking about a Vietnam memorial in NY Motley13 Jul 2016 #5
you are correct Simeon Salus Jul 2016 #8
I thought he bailed on Vietnam Veterans Plaza in New York Brother Buzz Jul 2016 #6
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
4. Leader of New York Veterans Group Defends Donald Trump
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 11:52 AM
Jul 2016
With all the fire coming at Donald Trump since his comments this weekend against Sen. John McCain – one of the leaders of New York’s Vietnam Veterans Plaza tells ABC News Trump “has not been a bad guy to us.”

Vincent McGowan, who has been with the organization since its inception in 1983 and currently sits on its board, says that if it wasn’t for Trump, the project in lower Manhattan would have never happened.

McGowan says the property downtown was gifted to the veterans by the Koch administration but they had no money. Trump committed $1M in a matching fund and they “couldn’t have built it without him.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/leader-york-veterans-group-defends-donald-trump/story?id=32571459

Simeon Salus

(1,132 posts)
8. you are correct
Sun Jul 31, 2016, 01:17 PM
Jul 2016

I made a mistake. Thanks for correcting me.

(which, BTW, are words you'll never hear the Drumpf führer say...)

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