'We can't function on hypocrisy': Colonel knocks Trump after CNN unearths claim he built...

[DonViejo]

‘We can’t function on hypocrisy’: Colonel knocks Trump after CNN unearths claim he built the Vietnam Memorial

SARAH K. BURRIS
20 OCT 2017 AT 20:34 ET

CNN unearthed the many occasions President Donald Trump falsely claimed that he built the Vietnam War Memorial in New York City to demonstrate the inappropriate way he has treated the military.

The Washington Post revealed the brag to be a fraud in 1984, but Trump still used it in 2015 as an example for how he is better on helping the troops than Democrats. Trump got five draft deferments for the Vietnam War due to alleged bone spurs.

“You would hope the idea here is that people should be accurate about what they’re doing,” retired Col. Cedric Leighton told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “Whether they did something that you know, benefits charity, or you know, that benefits, in this case, President Trump. That’s great if you really did that, that’s fantastic. But the issue here is you have to be truthful and the key victim in this, I think is the truth.” He went on to say that as an intelligence officer he was taught to be “operationally accurate,” which he described as an accuracy of 100 percent.

“This idea that facts don’t matter is something that is corrosive,” he continued. “Not only to our institutions, but to our very democracy itself and that is something that really has to change. Because we cannot function on hypocrisy.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/we-cant-function-on-hypocrisy-colonel-knocks-trump-after-cnn-unearths-claim-he-built-the-vietnam-memorial/

[subterranean]

1. That was a really long-winded way of saying, "Trump lied."

[sarge43]

4. He's breathing? He's lying. QED n/t

[Doitnow]

2. Pretty soon we'll hear he claims to have created heaven and earth and it only took one day.

[George II]

3. He personally carved all four busts on the face of Mount Rushmore.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Last night I saw a news show where they exposed

the fucking moron's ongoing lies. Years ago he claimed he had an original Renoir painting but the person who saw it told him the original had been hanging at the Chicago Art Institute for about 50+ years and the fake prez denied it. A few years later he told another person that it was the original painting even though the painting was moved to his home or office. The point is that even when he is told an actual fact he still believes his own lies...that is narcissistic behavior. Toss in being an incredible sociopath and you have someone who is unfit to serve as president. He shouldn't be serving a whopper at Burger King he is so mentally ill.

[JI7]

6. Is this how john kelly decided to attack Wilson ? He used what trump did

And falsely accused Wilson of it in order to defend the person who actually did it.

[uponit7771]

7. K&R

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. The Chad Mitchell Trio sang about Trump's claims...

"The Great Historical Bum"