Haley Campaign Press Release - Haley Announces Digital Ad Detailing Trump's Anti-Veteran Track Record
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Nikki Haley for President released a new digital ad today highlighting Donald Trump's long record of disrespecting veterans and mocking military members and their families. The ad comes after Donald Trump mocked Major Michael Haley for not being present on the campaign trail while he is deployed with the Army National Guard.
Watch the ad here.
The ad includes such infamous comments as:
Trump called fallen military soldiers "losers" and "suckers" while he was president.
At a Memorial Day event in Arlington National Cemetery, Trump said, "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"
Trump mocked Senator John McCain, a P.O.W. who spent five years in captivity in Vietnam, saying "I like people who weren't captured."
Trump attacked Retired Navy Admiral and former U.S. special operations chief William McRaven who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
"Donald Trump has a long track record of insulting our veterans," said Haley national spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas. "He has no business being commander in chief."
Nikki Haley, Haley Campaign Press Release - Haley Announces Digital Ad Detailing Trump's Anti-Veteran Track Record Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/370225