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Friday, August 17, 2018
Veterans sue Trump for letting his Mar-a-Lago cronies control the VA
By Eric Boehlert -
Members of the U.S. military are demanding accountability from Trump's secretive advisers.
American veterans are fighting back and demanding accountability from the secretive triumvirate of Trump pals who have been given control over the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs.
On Thursday, Democracy Forward, working on behalf of VoteVets, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court to effectively shut down what they refer to Trumps Mar-a-Lago Council.
The health and safety of Americas veterans isnt a game for President Trumps Mar-a-Lago members to play with between rounds of golf, added Will Fischer, Iraq War veteran and director of government relations for VoteVets.
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By all indications, the three Trump cronies Marvel Entertainment Chairman and CEO Isaac Ike Perlmutter, Palm Beach doctor Bruce Moskowitz, and lawyer Marc Sherman are doing a awful job, as the VA flounders under Trump.
In May, New York Times documented the chaos that has engulfed the VA under Trump, and particularly its medical system. As he has plunged the department into turmoil, doctors are burning out and veterans are being left behind.
Recall that after Trump fired VA Secretary Shulkin via Twitter, he tried to install his White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, into the top VA leadership role. But that turned into a spectacular failure.
U.S. veterans deserve so much better. They also deserves transparency at the VA.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)don ivan to wave around behind him on stage? How many? How MANY veterans for trump? They need to start putting some 'figures' on these signs. There's so many. Clearly lying about great swaths of voters and Americans.
GusBob
(7,285 posts)Where do the vets and soldiers get off booing the media?
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)veterans insult other veterans by supposedly supporting him w signs speaking for ALL of them, without push-back from the groups and they allow him to continue to somehow claim their support.
struggle4progress
(117,949 posts)18 USC 201
...(b) Whoever
(1) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent
(A) to influence any official act ...
(2) being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:
(A) being influenced in the performance of any official act ...
shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States ...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201
lindysalsagal
(20,317 posts)moondust
(19,895 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I have been screaming about this for months, calling both of my senators and my rep, crying "Foul."
These guys have no business setting VA policy. No experience. No time in the uniform. And no love for government. All three of these vultures want to see the VA privatized. Shulkin was fired for refusing to capitulate to the idea.
Right now there are 26,000 vacancies across the VA nationwide. It is NO coincidence that these positions have not been filled. They are trying to kill the VA with attrition of staff to validate their move to privatization.
No. No. No. Keep your filthy hands off my VA.
tom_kelly
(946 posts)Military.com had this lengthy but informative article this week about these 3 guys.
BigmanPigman
(51,365 posts)I think they all have been selling positions for money and/or favors. Hands down they are the most corrupt admin in my memory.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,480 posts)tRump believes he can run the entire US government via country club meetings, from a private cell phone and with everything vetted only through Faux News personnel.
Kudos to the vets for standing up and standing strong!...... ........
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(106,789 posts)Cha
(295,516 posts)need to wake the fuck up.