If you were wondering just how big a pile of steaming human excrement Donald Trump is, he answered that question yesterday when he decided to attack veterans who dared to challenge his lies about how much money he allegedly raised for them.
This issue goes all the way back to January, when Trump declined to participate in a debate because one of the moderators was Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Instead, Trump held what he called a rally for veterans, and he announced at that rally that he’d raised $6 million for the cause. But as we’ve learned in recent days, Trump can only for $3.1 million, and there is absolutely no record of his own contribution, which he claimed was $1 million.
A group of angry vets protested outside Trump Tower yesterday, calling Trump a “fraud” and demanding he make a full accounting for the money raised and prove he has indeed given it to causes which support American veterans.
Trump, as you might expect, as highly insulted that anyone would dare question his veracity, despite the fact that he’s been caught in so many lies one needs a calculator to keep score. So he took to Twitter and began sending out this kind of crap:
While under no obligation to do so, I have raised between 5 & 6 million dollars, including 1million dollars from me, for our VETERANS. Nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2016
Much of the money I have raised for our veterans has already been distributed, with the rest to go shortly to various other veteran groups.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2016
Amazingly, with all of the money I have raised for the vets, I have got nothing but bad publicity from the dishonest and disgusting media.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2016
Fortunately, David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post decided to challenge Trump’s blatant lies, and he did so on Twitter, since that’s the only real reading Trump seems to do:
10/ The other question: to whom did @realdonaldtrump give the $1M he pledged? https://t.co/eL01y8zgYf
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) May 24, 2016
11/ @realDonaldTrump says his $ has been given, but not to whom. I've been trying to find the vets groups who got it https://t.co/eL01y8zgYf
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) May 24, 2016
14/…But there are still questions about how much he raised, and how @realdonaldtrump met his personal $1M pledge https://t.co/eL01y8zgYf
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) May 24, 2016
Trump also sent out his thuggish campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to vouch for his master, and he told “CBS This Morning:”
“Mr. Trump pledged a million dollars that he’s donated personally through his personal accounts, and not through his foundation. And the accounting that has been attributed to that has shown that $4.5 million already has been attributed. This is going to be somewhere between $5.5 million and $6 million total which will be given to the veterans. This was not an obligation Mr. Trump had. This is something he did to help the veterans so he can give back.”
Face it, Donald Trump is a con man. He’s a grifter who will take advantage of anyone–including those who served their country–to further his political ambitions or garner media attention. Donald Trump is also a cancer, and we are all obligated to excise this malignancy from our system on Election Day.
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