TRUMP FAMILY FINANCIAL INTERESTS ARE #1
Donald Trump is a carnival-barking huckster. To him, everything is for sale — including our national security.
Our servicemembers, veterans, and their families are under attack from President Trump — and we’re laying out his entire record on these issues throughout this site. As veterans and military families, we’re putting the President on notice: We’re organizing nonstop from now until next November to elect a Commander-in-Chief and Congress deserving of our service and sacrifice.
As President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Donald Trump’s chaotic “leadership” and obsession with his own ego and financial interest have combined to weaken America’s place on the world stage, embolden our enemies, and alienate our allies. Trump has refused to accept the U.S. Intelligence community’s own conclusion that Russia attacked our democracy in 2016, while cozying up to Putin and spilling classified information to the Russian Ambassador in the Oval Office. His approach to diplomacy with North Korea has yielded no substantive commitments from the regime, and has centered on a bizarre personal relationship between the two strongmen to include “love letters.” At the request of Turkey’s President, Trump ordered an unplanned and hasty withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Northern Syria — abandoning our Kurdish partners who fought side-by-side to deny ISIS a physical stronghold, and leaving the Kurds to be slaughtered. There are countless examples Trump’s erratic behavior on the world stage putting Americans at risk. But it comes down to this: those who’ve worn the uniform of our country — past and present — deserve a Commander-in-Chief worthy of their service and sacrifice, and all Americans deserve a President who puts our national security first.
Donald Trump has disrespected and devalued the service of veterans since the beginning days of his campaign — deriding the late Senator and POW John McCain as “not a real war hero because he was captured” and claiming that avoidance of sexaully-transmitted diseases in New York City in the 80’s was his own “personal Vietnam.” But beyond his disrespect, Trump has also allowed the chaos and corruption core to his Administration to get in the way of caring for our nation’s men and women in uniform — past, present, and future. Trump allowed open warfare between his own political appointees at the White House and the Department of Veterans Affairs to throw the VA — our VA — into chaos, resulting in the firing of his first VA Secretary. Then he tried to nominate his unqualified, personal physician to run the 9,000,000+ patient healthcare system. And throughout, outsiders with financial interests in VA contracts — like the “Mar-A-Lago three” — have been putting profits ahead of patients.
When members of the military are worried that the benefits they earned won’t be there when they separate from the service, they’re not able to fully focus on the mission at hand. Donald Trump undermining the VA therefore hurts our national security.
Here are some of the scandals that Trump has allowed to harm the lives of veterans.
Before even taking office, Donald Trump made mocking Gold Star Families a centerpiece of his 2016 presidential campaign. As President, Trump and Congressional Republicans have doubled down on their attacks against military families and families of the fallen. From spiking taxes on military death benefits to ripping money away from military school construction funding to pay for his racist wall and devaluing the service of immigrant and LGBTQ service members, Donald Trump has demeaned and degraded military families since day zero.
As morally reprehensible as these attacks are, they also impact the readiness of our force, and takes their attention away from their missions. Donald Trump’s attacks on our military families and service members make us less safe.
When Congress refused to appropriate funds for Trump’s racist wall along the U.S.-Mexico border (which experts say is an ineffective waste), the President decided to declare a national emergency and rip the money away from military construction projects already approved by Congress. These projects, which take years to approve, include critical military projects that directly impact our military’s readiness and the quality of life of military families. With desperately needed improvements to military schools, childcare facilities, and community projects on the chopping block, military families are paying for Trump’s wall.
Scroll over the map below to see where Donald Trump is stealing from the military to pay for his racist border wall. Click any phone number to call.
On the map below, see where Donald Trump is stealing from the military to pay for his racist border wall. Click any phone number to call.