Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump's reported remarks about wounded veteran

[Jilly_in_VA]

Pete Buttigieg, the US transport secretary and a military veteran, has criticized Donald Trump after a report that he sought to bar a severely wounded veteran from public appearances during his presidency.

In an interview with the Atlantic, Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said Trump had been irritated after Luis Avila – who lost a leg and suffered brain damage after an IED attack in Afghanistan – sang at Milley’s 2019 welcome ceremony.

“Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded,” Milley said Trump told him after the ceremony.

Milley told the Atlantic that Trump said Avila should never appear in public again.

On Sunday, Buttigieg – who was a lieutenant in the US navy reserve and served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2014 – told CNN that Trump’s alleged order was “just the latest in a pattern of outrageous attacks [by Trump] on people who keep this country safe”.

Military members wounded in combat, Buttigieg said, “deserve respect and a hell of a lot more than that from every American, and definitely from every American president”.

Buttigieg also said: “The idea that an American president, the person to whom service members look as a commander in chief, the person who sets the tone for this entire country, could think that way or act that way or talk that way about anyone in uniform, and certainly about those who put their bodies on the line and sacrificed in ways that most Americans will never understand … I guess wounded veterans make president Trump feel uncomfortable.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/24/pete-buttigieg-donald-trump-wounded-veteran-remarks

A shame and a disgrace, that man.....

[Recycle_Guru]

1. Trump is the complete distillation of everything wrong about our country

[gratuitous]

2. Where are the media on this?

Seems significant, and in just the way that Secretary Buttigieg says about the veterans who've put their bodies and their lives on the line. But then, Buttigieg actually served in the military, so perhaps he's sensitive to these slights in ways that the defendant (and his extended family, none of whom have been in the military) isn't.

[BootinUp]

3. Good guess at the end of the excerpt. Nt