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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:28 PM Mar 2017

Vets groups feel insulted after Trump skips meeting with them and sends Omarosa instead

Source: raw






09 Mar 2017 at 11:00 ET


President Donald Trump pledged repeatedly during the 2016 presidential campaign to do a better job of taking care of veterans — but now some veterans groups say they feel “completely rebuffed” by his administration.

The Daily Beast reports that several veterans’ groups felt dismayed this week when they went to a meeting at the White House that wasn’t attended by President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, or any other high-ranking administration official.

In fact, the most notable administration member present at the meeting was Omarosa Manigault, a Trump loyalist who first burst onto the scene during her stint as a contestant on Trump’s old reality TV show.

“I won’t say anyone told us we were meeting with the president, but it was implied that we would be able to voice our concerns to the boss, the guy who ultimately runs everything, which is the president,” Joe Chenelly, executive director of AMVETS, told The Daily Beast.

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This isn’t the first time that Trump has sent Omarosa to meet with veterans in his place, either, as this past December Omarosa was sent to meet with veterans who had gathered for a meeting at Trump Tower during the presidential transition.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/vets-groups-feel-insulted-after-trump-skips-meeting-with-them-and-sends-omarosa-instead/

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Vets groups feel insulted after Trump skips meeting with them and sends Omarosa instead (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2017 OP
Sorry but tax cuts for billionaires is far more important than taking care of you vets. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
Golfing is more important to this weak-kneed fool. randome Mar 2017 #2
IIRC veterans voted for Trump by a 2 to 1 margin. Charles Bukowski Mar 2017 #9
He could send Barron Trump and they'd still vote for him in 2020 BeyondGeography Mar 2017 #3
This vet didn't, and won't vote ever for Trump... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #7
I applaud your good sense BeyondGeography Mar 2017 #10
I can't applaud yours in insulting millions "out there" Hortensis Mar 2017 #12
You'll have to excuse me BeyondGeography Mar 2017 #14
Attacking veterans is how to help Republicans defeat them, Hortensis Mar 2017 #18
How are they on our side when the majority continue to vote for war-dodging warmongers? BeyondGeography Mar 2017 #19
Think about it later maybe. Bye. Hortensis Mar 2017 #24
GOOD MAN Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #25
They aren't rich and he's not trying to force them to have sex with him, lark Mar 2017 #4
I feel insulted that this ignoramus is in the WH still_one Mar 2017 #5
Where was President Bannon? Scarsdale Mar 2017 #8
Uhoh! Incoming! VA already under dismantling attack again! Hortensis Mar 2017 #6
To be fair, the man has bone spurs. meadowlander Mar 2017 #11
what the hell do they expect heaven05 Mar 2017 #13
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! LuckyLib Mar 2017 #20
but he did give a speech abroad a docked ship wearing military things Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #26
Trump LOVES veterans (unless they got captured) Plucketeer Mar 2017 #32
I hate to say it, but lots of vets are gullible. Adrahil Mar 2017 #15
Three bits of advice for Mr. Chennely: hatrack Mar 2017 #16
Here's why Republicans SPAM SPAM SPAM the medias with stupid tabloid trash fake news. Sunlei Mar 2017 #17
As Denzel as Malcolm X so eloquently proclaimed BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #21
republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief pisses on veterans Achilleaze Mar 2017 #22
Sorry Veterans. Republicans ALWAYS knew Omarosa was more important to Trump than YOU. Sunlei Mar 2017 #23
Everyone hates Omorosa lisa58 Mar 2017 #27
ya get what you voted for samnsara Mar 2017 #28
sorry you were only photo ops dudes luvMIdog Mar 2017 #29
Get the picture, vets? louis-t Mar 2017 #30
Omarosa is someone from a game show. She is unqualified. Jesus H. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2017 #31
Should have sent Ben Carson who said he got a free scholarship to West Point. keithbvadu2 Mar 2017 #33
Great! mpcamb Mar 2017 #35
45 doesn't need them anymore. End of story. NT Ilsa Mar 2017 #34

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. Sorry but tax cuts for billionaires is far more important than taking care of you vets.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:30 PM
Mar 2017

Now half of you voted for him, or more, so there is that.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
2. Golfing is more important to this weak-kneed fool.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:32 PM
Mar 2017

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. I can't applaud yours in insulting millions "out there"
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:05 PM
Mar 2017

and many so gratuitously here. The only people who supported The Donald are those who supported him. No one else, no matter what group you've pegged them in.

Anyway, Donald's avoiding these people almost certainly signals future actions against the VA. We should learn from our past mistakes. Attacking veterans is how to help Republicans, not how to protect the VA from them.

BeyondGeography

(39,284 posts)
14. You'll have to excuse me
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:11 PM
Mar 2017

I'm a little tired of watching Dems do a better job for vets (e.g. this program which was immediately deleted from the WH website: http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/michelle-obama-melania-trump-joining-forces-military-spouse-veterans-employment) only to be continuously rejected by the majority of them at the polls in presidential elections. And when we run an actual war hero like John Kerry against an AWOL National Guardsman, it doesn't make a difference either. When you're being taken for granted, part of the problem just might be you.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. Attacking veterans is how to help Republicans defeat them,
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:19 PM
Mar 2017

not how to protect the VA from destruction. You also don't seem to be counting all the "nice" vets out there.

It's really a simple stratagem: Don't attack your own side when it's under attack by your enemy, and don't join your enemy in attacking your own assets and institutions. Assuming you support the VA of course.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
8. Where was President Bannon?
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:45 PM
Mar 2017

Packing for the weekly trip to Florida? How about first "lady" Ivanka, the keeper of daddy's medications?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Uhoh! Incoming! VA already under dismantling attack again!
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:44 PM
Mar 2017

The VA had seemed to temporarily dodge a dismantling bullet when the Kochs apparently fell out with their choice to "head"/destroy from within, the puppet they hired to head their Concerned Vets for America, and a VA executive was named instead.

Two days ago, a new Koch-backed Concerned Veterans Ad for America came out with this:

“Fraud. Abuse. Veterans dying on wait lists. American heroes deserve better, but our veterans are suffering at the hands of bad VA employees,” the ad narrator says. “Congress can change it by passing the VA Accountability First Act of 2017. New reforms that will hold bad employees accountable and cut undeserved bonuses. Reforms that get bad VA employees out – for good.”


Concerned Veterans For America Launches Campaign To Urge Congress To Support New VA Accountability Bill
http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/03/concerned-veterans-america-launches-campaign-urge-congress-support-new-va-accountability-bill/

There are enormous riches to be mined by adding vets to for-profit markets, and anti-tax extremists like the Kochs can't "live free" until programs like this one are destroyed.

Right now the VA only spends about 3% of its budget on administrative-type expenses, 0% on profits, wasting 97% on patient care. And overwhelmingly vets really don't want to lose their VA. But Koch propaganda has convinced much of America that the VA is broken and has to be "fixed." Like the ACA.

meadowlander

(4,358 posts)
11. To be fair, the man has bone spurs.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:55 PM
Mar 2017

You can't expect him to walk the whole length of the White House to meet with veterans, especially after a long weekend of golf.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
13. what the hell do they expect
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:08 PM
Mar 2017

he constantly insulted vets and currently serving military during his campaign. He's a draft dodging, con man coward/chickenhawk. I am so sick of this bullshit outrage from americans. Should have been outraged enough not to vote this POS into office.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
32. Trump LOVES veterans (unless they got captured)
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 06:06 PM
Mar 2017

He loves them and the greatest generals EVER that we now have. GAH! I cannot comprehend the fucking IDIOT CON-MANder in chief we have in the oval pit. My progenitors would be SICK to see how this nation has been turned to shit since genius Reagan portrayed a president. Hell, we'd be better off if they EXHUMED ol' Ronnie and propped him up at the Executive Desk!

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
15. I hate to say it, but lots of vets are gullible.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:12 PM
Mar 2017

So many support the GOP and even idiot draft dodgers like Trump when it comes election day, despite the fact that the GOP routinely gives the vets the middle finger time and again once in office.

hatrack

(59,442 posts)
16. Three bits of advice for Mr. Chennely:
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:14 PM
Mar 2017

1. Wake up;
2. Suck it up, buttercup;
3. Realize that President Shitstain is not your friend, and does not care; proceed on that basis.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
22. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief pisses on veterans
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:28 PM
Mar 2017

again.

republicans are no friends to America's veterans, as the voting records make plain.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
23. Sorry Veterans. Republicans ALWAYS knew Omarosa was more important to Trump than YOU.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:31 PM
Mar 2017

Republicans just didn't share the background checks & vettings they did on THEIR candidate for president because they knew you wouldn't vote for him.

like that UK spy experts dossier on trumps "money launderings' in Russia, was ordered first by a Republican. wasn't shared with voters.

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
30. Get the picture, vets?
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:29 PM
Mar 2017

He doesn't care about you. He's sending one of his lap dogs to babble at you. And he will create more disabled vets because of his ego. He is mentally unstable and we as a country have to deal with this.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
33. Should have sent Ben Carson who said he got a free scholarship to West Point.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 09:23 PM
Mar 2017

Should have sent Ben Carson who said he got a free scholarship to West Point.

That surely would have impressed the veterans.

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