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Donald J. Trump forced Disabled American Veterans away from his Fifth Avenue estate, claiming their dirty, dirty presence was a public nusiance and disgusting. Doanld J. Trump is a pathic liar who ahtes American Veterans and his ACTIONS speak LOUDER than words. Disgusting.

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D Trump will be the next POTUS like it or not......

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Rolling Thunder spokeswoman Nancy Regg estimated Sunday’s event drew about 5,000 people

How many of them can read?

The public record of Trump's actions to rid his property of Disabled American Veterans, guaranteed the right to sell from licensed vending carts since the Civil War by the City of New York, is available for anyone who has acquired that skill.

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Bob Dole suggested to Trump to apologize to Sen McCain.

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"for more than a decade Trump sought to deprive veterans in need of their meager livelihood because he found them unsightly nuisances who should not be allowed anywhere near his gleaming headquarters on Fifth Avenue."

"The Trump who now extols veterans spent years clamoring for New York City’s politicians to take action and ban even those street vendors with special disabled veteran’s licenses from the environs of Trump Tower."

source: "Donald Trump Wanted Vets Kicked Off Fifth Avenue"

Donald J. Trump continued his hate fest on Disabled American Veterans in his condemnation of American Veterans.

“Whether they are veterans or not, they [the vendors] should not be allowed to sell on this most important and prestigious shopping street,” Trump declared.

"He warned, “The image of New York City will suffer… I hope you can stop this very deplorable situation before it is too late.”

Trump fought for over a decade to shame, humiliate and threaten Disabled American Veterans legally licensed to vend sundry items wholly regulated by the City of New York. By contrast Rolling Thunder appears as little more than a band of thugs who threaten protesters.

How many of their number are actually Veterans of anything except White Supremacists Groups and Biker Gangs?

Their armed presence at Trump's loyalty rallies prove them little more than the thugs Trump employed to enforce his prejudiced designs and intimidation squads. A more compelling comparison with the "brown shirts" of history is lost on the illiterate gun nuts who comprise their ranks.

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Clearly, Miller-Barron Trump's Rolling Thunder Brownshirts do not represent the American Veteran and have no respect for those who have served, died in combat, or endured suffering as a POW.

The noisy ostentatious display of false patriotism in the name of selfish aggrandizement and political opportunism has no place in our nation's celebration of Memorial Day.

If a bunch of fascist buffoons want to have a Harley Party to drink beer and parade around in leather suits while desecrating the American flag, let them pay for their own security, road closures, and police escorts away from the capitol on Memorial Day.

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Donald J. Trump's history of bold faced lying, documented in the past ten months on television, is only made more despicable as he lies he cares a fig for American Veterans.

Only the stupid or ignorant aren't disgusted by Trump's actions.

Whatever the Rolling Thunder thinks it is, it's support for a man who fought to deprive Veterans of their legal rights proves Rolling Thunder little more than an armed group bent on threatening Americans empowered by the lies of Donald J. Trump on Memorial Day. Disgusting.

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The VA is a horrible system with their "death lists" and John McCain has done little for the Vietnam Veterans while supporting the "moderate rebels" in Syria with photo-ops.

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Trump said he was certain that his appearance would be free from protesters, thanks to the bikers’ presence.

Not menacing at all, Donald.

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First, who does Rolling Thunder claim to be?

"The major function of Rolling Thunder®, Inc. is to publicize the POW-MIA issue: To educate the public that many American Prisoners of War were left behind after all previous wars and to help correct the past and to protect future Veterans from being left behind should they become Prisoners of War-Missing In Action. We are also committed to helping American Veterans from all wars."

Let's look at who Rolling Thunder is supporting.

They are supporting a bigot who mocked Senator McCain, a five year POW.

Rolling Thunder can take off the mask anytime they want, or apologize to every Veteran, POW and MIA's family. Paid for Patriotism isn't just as Trump draft dodging contempt of the military, military families and disabled Veterans disqualifies him as a loyal American.

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Trump's defense of his criticism of America's most famous POW (McCain) shows he has the slimy politician act down pat. He says many Americans supported his putdown of McCain because just after he first said it his poll numbers jumped 7%. So higher polls justify friendly fire attacks on senior leaders of your own party? How long will Trump be able to play that game without getting burned I wonder.

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On a point of history, the genesis of the term, "Rolling Thunder", is less than complimentary to the intent and execution of a questionable campaign of bombing North Vietnam in 1965.

"As originally conceived, the fundamental purpose of Rolling Thunder was to persuade the North Vietnamese to quit the war, or failing that, to entice them to the negotiating table to arrange a compromise settlement of the problems in Southeast Asia. In 1965, the campaign clearly failed to either persuade or entice the North Vietnamese."

source: " Rolling Thunder 1965: Anatomy of a Failure"

This lesson from history seems lost on the wealthy draft dodging contemptible Donald J. Trump.

Sadly, the "Rolling Thunder" of today hasn't learned much from the history they claim to so reverently hope to prevent.

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Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president, angered veterans last year when he said he liked “people who weren’t captured” in wars.

He'll just throw money at the problem.

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https://youtu.be/IUVB3FWSWaU

I would say 10-12k (total) people at the event, with a few thousand on the other side of the barricades. You can see the security points (gates) that people had to go thru.

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Trump-hater-extraordinaire dominating the thread. Go Trump!

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The wild card in this election is going to be the Libertarian Party. Former Republican governor Gary Johnson helped his party to a record one million plus votes last election, and he likes to tell people he is more liberal on social issues than H. Clinton and more conservative on fiscal issues than Ted Cruz. He could well draw lots of establishment voters--the Bob Dole/ John McCain types--that are getting turned off by the out of control showman Trump (who Gary Johnson calls a racist for the inflammatory Mexican rapist talk).

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Why do veterans support the people who hate them? They voted for Bush who sent them to two failed wars, killing thousands of troops and wounding tens of thousands. Trump is the same. If he becomes President he will start a war somewhere, that is for sure, and guess what happens, more dead soldiers and more wounded vets. Republicans are so stupid to always vote for the people who make your lives miserable. It is amazing to see and prove positive that people are totally irrational, at least republicans. And Obama, who has not started any stupid wars, is despised by the biker types. The President who has protected them from death and injury. He should be their hero but no, they love the lying Trump who will send more dumb kids into war for no reason at all. More trillions of dollars will be wasted as with the Iraq invasion by Junior.

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"Trump-hater-extraordinaire dominating the thread." - comments

The truth is dominating the thread for those who can read.

"Donald Trump has shown nothing but contempt for veterans did what he was too cowardly to do. These vets served and were permanently disabled in service of their country. Donald Trump refused to serve and was able to use his family’s wealth to avoid going to Vietnam."

"A man who is capable of showing such hatred and contempt for disabled veterans is not someone who the majority of the voters should want serving as Commander In Chief."

*source: "Bombshell Letter Exposes Donald Trump’s Hated For And War On Disabled Veterans"

Rolling Thunder is betraying the very people they claim to represent, American Veterans.

Their support for Trump's contempt of Senator McCain's FIVE YEARS as a POW is nothing but a disgusting display of ignorance and hypocrisy.

Senator McCain repeatedly refused release until his comrades in arms were released.

Donald J. Trump's actions turned those Disabled American Veterans into criminals as Trump led the fight to deign them the RIGHTS the City of New York granted after the Civil War as licensed vendors. Trump is disgusting in his hatred for the American Veteran and any American who cheers this degenerate bigot is as ignorant ans stupid as Trump hoped they would be.

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Libertarian candidates are two former GOP governors.

Dem side is awfully quiet. Many are hoping Hillary and Sanders will talk lout differences and get together. Not debate but discussion as both like to raise minimum wage.

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Rolling Thunder is not only ignoring Trump's record of assault on Disabled American Veterans since 1991, they are ignoring Trump's lies that drew protest from American Veterans at Trump Tower in New York City, the same location Trump fought to ban from the presence of Disable American Veterans.

The reader learns of specific complaint below that Rolling Thunder thugs choose to ignore in their hypocrisy.

"We're here [Trump Tower] because Donald Trump made a commitment. He said that he was going to raise, and did raise, $6 million for veterans. And yet a lot of that money, he failed to provide. He failed to provide any accountability for where the money he did raise. And he failed to raise as much money as he claimed he did. We're here to demand an apology from Donald Trump for failing to live up to his commitment to veterans, while trying to use us as props to cash-in on the goodwill that voters have for American veterans," said Alexander McCoy, a Marine Corps veteran."

"Trump's campaign manager says the amount is less than the $6 million originally claimed."

"But Corey Lewandowski (arrested in Florida for assault on a female reporter in Florida earlier in the campaign) told CNN he could not confirm the exact amount."

source: "Veterans protest Trump at Trump Tower in NYC", Monday, May 23rd 2016

On Memorial Day, Rolling Thunder honors a bigot draft dodger who condemned a five year POW survivor, Senator John McCain.

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What's wrong with these people who just swallow all the BS Trump goes on about?

His supporters would believe that the word 'gullible' has been removed from all dictionaries!

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Why do veterans support the people who hate them?

Most veterans are loyal to the US and campaigns they were deployed to.

They voted for Bush who sent them to two failed wars, killing thousands of troops and wounding tens of thousands.

They voluntarily enlisted to US armed forces and the interests of the US gov. They knew that when they signed up. Nobody was drafted. If you want to dance, you gota pay the fiddler.

They were all big boys and girls and knew exactly what they were getting into . . . . especially the ones who signed up immediately after 9/11 2001.

What's wrong with these people who just swallow all the BS Trump goes on about?

I don't know. . . what about the people who just swallow and praise what this sick guy has done over the Memorial Day weekend. It's just plain sick-

http://ktla.com/2016/05/29/man-arrested-after-driving-through-memorial-day-cross-display-in-kentucky-park-police/

No Respect!

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Trump is just 'making an example' of people who don't fall in line to kiss his.....hand. He's letting all the GOP know that they'd better do what he says or he'll go after them. It's classic strong man dictator stuff and I think it's very significant that it's mostly the women who are showing the guts to not bow down to the new dictator and grovel at his feet.

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@CrazyJoe, mostly women like the top Republican governor in the country Susanna Martinez who refused to attend the Trump rally in NM a week back. She worked as a prosecutor and her husband retired from police work after a long career. Those are the kind of law and order folks Trump would buddy up to if he had a clue. But the person managing the campaign, Corey Lewandoski, washed out of police work prematurely and probably resents those who had a more successful career, hence the attack on Martinez and the probable transfer of tens to hundreds of thousands of votes to stealth candidate Gary Johnson of New Mexico. Trump should fire Lewandoski just on the basis of this flawed southwest strategy.

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As a non-partisan, independent voter, it is amusing to read the dwindling number of foreigner, non-voting pro Mrs. Bill Clinton posters at this site doing their best to make her seem more palatable to us Americans than she really is.

Heh, the globalist shriek fest/meltdown continues. . . .

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Asian people knew why American captured ti Viet Comma were kept alive. Bo Chi Ming Said the were bravely fighting hopeless war in our country. And captured. Asian reporters were satisfied that Americans were fed Chinese food. Spying? There was hardly any people who understood American English in Viet Nam, then. !Mccain was in Arizoooona Veterans Hospital was giving one way ticket to SzF and Arizona hospital got in trouble. McCain worked to straighten out. Bbooth GOP and DEM Nevada Congressmen decided to make VAHospital in N Las Vegas and Created VA hospital.Because of McCain; Arizona Veterans have better health care.

BTW there are 4.000 + Veterans alive but their families received death notice? VA trying to reduce pension payments to qualllified Veterans.

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"They were all big boys and girls and knew exactly what they were getting into . . . . especially the ones who signed up immediately after 9/11 2001." - comments

Did they know George W. Bush used forged documents to "prove" Sadam had acquired "yellow cake" from Niger and betrayed CIA's Valerie Plame to punish her husband Ambassador Wilson?

Big boys and girls don't lick the boot of a bigot. Big boys and girls don't lie about their commitment to POWs and betray a five year POW survivor.

Donald J. Trump's disgusting lies and contemptible condescension to use real Veterans as stage props for pay is only one example of this duplicitous racist's plan to make America Hate Again.

Maybe Trump will use the flag as toilet tissue on July 4 to show how great an American Patriot he is.

Rolling Thunder can cheer that as long as there's buck to be made and a protester to beat down. Disgusting.

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He could well draw lots of establishment voters--the Bob Dole/ John McCain types--that are getting turned off by the out of control showman Trump (who Gary Johnson calls a racist for the inflammatory Mexican rapist talk).

He is currently drawing equally from both sides.

At least according to the latest Fox poll he is drawing equally from both sides. It has Trump vs. Clinton with Trump 45, Clinton 42. The same poll with Johnson added is Trump 42, Clinton 39, Johnson 10. Trump has a 3% lead either way. No difference.

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He said he will collect donation for veterans and he will manage money

GOP people say he is not a billionaire and short on campaign money.

He was telling what he looks like.

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That is why Trump was shoulder to shoulder with a vet supporting him for giving donations at Trump's latest rally .....

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