Wilkie Says Bigger VA Budget Is Proof Trump Backs Veterans and Troops – By Richard Sisk (Military.com) / Sept 7 2020
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie cited increased spending and support for veterans and troops Sunday as a defense against allegations President Donald Trump routinely disparaged the military and called those who fell in battle “losers” and “suckers.”
“Absolutely not,” Wilkie said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked if he had ever heard Trump demean the military or veterans.
Wilkie, a colonel in the Air Force Reserve, added that he “would be offended too if I thought it was true,” referring to an incendiary article in The Atlantic citing anonymous defense sources who said Trump leveled insults at military leaders and veterans.
“What I’m looking at is the Donald Trump I know. The Donald Trump who has turned around Veteran Affairs,” Wilkie said.
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