{"id":35169,"date":"2018-12-28T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35169"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T21:43:23","slug":"trump-lying-to-cannon-fodder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/trump-lying-to-cannon-fodder\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lying to Cannon Fodder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Since my birth, I have opposed almost all of America&#8217;s wars.\u00a0 However, I equally believe that it is our responsibility and privilege to love, honor, and care for our troops because we owe them such a major debt of gratitude.\u00a0 Politicians who lie to our troops do not respect them.\u00a0 Such people are manipulating them to treat them as cannon fodder.\u00a0 Rep Adam Smith [D-WA] knows this.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Congress Defense Spending\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1228Smith.jpg\" alt=\"Congress Defense Spending\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The incoming head of the House Armed Services Committee has called out Donald Trump, giving the president a taste of what he\u2019s in for with a new Democratic majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstant misinformation from the president is a real problem in a democratic society, and we in Congress have got to do our best to hold him accountable,\u201d warned Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), who\u2019s taking over leadership of the committee in January.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Smith vowed that the committee would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/new-armed-services-committee-chair-puts-white-house-on-notice-1.562213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer allow Trump\u2019s falsehoods<\/a> to go unchallenged, The Stars and Stripes reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just this week Trump claimed that he had personally boosted military pay by 10 percent in the troops\u2019 first raise in 10 years. In fact, the military was given a 2.6 percent raise and has received wage hikes each year for the past 30 years<\/strong>&#8230;\u00a0 [<strong>emphasis added<\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/adma-smith-warns-trump-on-falsehoods_us_5c25c8dfe4b05c88b6fef06a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">When Democrats passed annual raises for our troops, they did so over Republican opposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Don Lemon on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5YLGQTqvQrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> called out Trump for this and other lies to our troops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5YLGQTqvQrU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-bone-spurs-diagnosis-vietnam-doctor-favor-father-1271399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the doctor that diagnosed Trump&#8217;s bone spurs lied<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In short Democrats try to take care of our troops out of respect.\u00a0 Republicans just use them as cannon fodder.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my birth, I have opposed almost all of America&#8217;s wars.\u00a0 However, I equally believe that it is our responsibility and privilege to love, honor, and care for our troops because we owe them such a major debt of gratitude.\u00a0 Politicians who lie to our troops do not respect them.\u00a0 Such people are manipulating them <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/trump-lying-to-cannon-fodder\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}