{"id":61032,"date":"2015-07-25T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61032"},"modified":"2015-07-25T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T20:08:56","slug":"veterans-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61032","title":{"rendered":"Veterans for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump campaign issued a press release<\/a> the other day announcing the formation of the “Veterans for Trump” coalition in New Hampshire made up of veterans who will campaign for Donald Trump during the primaries. There is a list of 52 folks on the press release, but it seems that at least three of them never gave their permission to the campaign to use their names, according to The Guardian<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about it,\u201d said Ernie Fusi, an 88-year-old second world war veteran from Atkinson, New Hampshire. His name was among 51 \u201cVeterans for Trump\u201d whose details were sent out to the media and listed on Trump\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t told anyone I want to get in on that,\u201d Fusi said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to do any campaigning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I get the sense that this probably wasn’t intentional. Someone in the campaign asked some veterans for some names to put on the list and someone figured that these people would support what this thing says that Trump will do for veterans. It’s a rookie mistake, and I’m pretty sure that it happens all of the time. However, the Trump campaign should have vetted the list before they published it, because every Republican campaign will be scrutinized by the media – unlike the other side. Since Trump is getting out in front of the other candidates, he is, and his campaign is, going to make mistakes that will stand as examples for the other candidates.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen polls that say veterans support Trump in numbers greater than the other candidates, so that makes Trump a target. But, I’m pretty sure that no one at The Guardian or the Gawker<\/a> are going to be pulling levers for Trump, or any other Republican, any time soon, so take it all with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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