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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump to the troops in Iraq:

"You haven’t gotten [a raise] in more than ten years."
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A lie: The military has received a pay increase each year except for 1983 and that was a technical glitch which was caught up and back-paid the next year.


"And we got you a big one. I got you a big one.... Make it ten percent. Make it more than ten percent. Because it’s been a long time."
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More lies: Trump had nothing to do with it other that signing off on the work done by Congress. Military pay was raised 2.8 percent in 2018 and another 2.6 percent in the August National Defense Authorization Act.

Passed the House on 14 July 2017 (344-81)
Passed the Senate on 18 September 2017 (89-8)
Signed into law by Trump on 12 December 2017
 
Trump takes credit for things he did not do and refuses to take responsibility for the things he does do. I don't know about his IQ, but his EQ is about that of a toddler.
 
He had already been caught out on this particular lie. From the link:
That’s wrong. Depending how you count it, the most recent year without a military pay raise was either 35 or 57 years ago — not 10. And the most recent pay raise wasn’t even the biggest in the past 10 years; it was exceeded by raises in 2008, 2009 and 2010, during the Bush and Obama administrations.
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Is it "normal" behavior to flat out lie to the men and women in uniform who protect this nation? When the lie had previously been labeled a flat out deception? President Trump, the American people would like to know, a majority of us anyway, what the devil is wrong with you, sir?
 
newyorkguy said:
He had already been caught out on this particular lie. From the link:


Is it "normal" behavior to flat out lie to the men and women in uniform who protect this nation? When the lie had previously been labeled a flat out deception? President Trump, the American people would like to know, a majority of us anyway, what the devil is wrong with you, sir?
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I wonder how many of those soldiers thought to themselves, "What the hell is he talking about? I got a raise every year."
 
Stacyhs said:
I wonder how many of those soldiers thought to themselves, "What the hell is he talking about? I got a raise every year."
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If they're anything like the guys and gals I served with when I was in the U.S. Army -- I didn't have a problem with bone spurs -- that is a very sanitized version of what they probably did say. ;)
 
Cain said:
After the Fed tried crashing the market, Trump came back and saved it. Thank you, Mr. President.
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This actually plays into my theory.... bargain hunters got active and the Klepto-Stooge stayed off his phone while en route to Iraq and the market bounced.

I'm kinda happy he's not learned anything. His popularity also stays stable and begins to inch upwards when someone tapes his thumbs to his belt loops. He then decides to go after some unsuspecting Fox Target and all his gains are given back.
 
Is congress back soon? Pass that budget over his veto. They could put him on ignore. Come back and leave him as the lame duck that is. A joke of a president.
 
I look forward to hearing from all the Republican supporters who frequently speak out against Trump's dishonesty.
 
I wonder if he'd have visited troups at Christmas if his original plans for the holidays hadn't been scuppered by his own incompetence.
 
In the pool report of the trip — which was embargoed to help protect the Trumps’ safety in Iraq — the president asked the chaplain of Seal Team Five, Lieutenant Commander Kyu Lee, to take a picture with him, revealing the presence of the special ops team at the al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq. When Trump left Iraqi airspace, he posted a video in which he and the First Lady pause for photos with members of Seal Team Five, decked in full battle gear and night vision goggles.

As president, it is technically within Trump’s job description to declassify that sort of information, but it does violate protocol designed to keep secret locations of special forces secret. “The deployments of special operation forces, including Navy SEALs are almost classified events, as to protect those men and women that are on the front lines of every overt and covert conflict the United States is involved in,” a Defense Department official told Newsweek. “Even during special operation demonstrations for congressional delegations or for the president or vice president, personnel either have their faces covered or their face is digitally blurred prior to a release to the general public.”

Of course, this isn’t Trump’s first failure in operational security. In October, the New York Times reported that when Trump calls friends on his personal iPhone – a device he was supposed to ditch for security measures – Russian and Chinese spies eavesdrop to gauge the president’s mood and who might have his ear on policy matters. Other, low-tech security risks emerged in the report: last year, Trump left his cell behind in a golf cart at his course in New Jersey, causing “a scramble” to find it.

Nor is it Trump’s first impromptu revelation of national security interests: in April 2017 phone call, Trump told Rodrigo Duterte, the authoritarian president of the Philippines, that the U.S. had sent two nuclear submarines to the waters off the coast of North Korea. And, in May 2017, hours after the dismissal of James Comey, Trump revealed Israeli intelligence assets to the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, jeopardizing the Israeli-American intelligence link and leaving Mossad “boiling mad and demanding answers.
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Linky.
 
Trump Tweets

Just returned from visiting our troops in Iraq and Germany. One thing is certain, we have incredible people representing our Country - people that know how to win!
 
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