U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) responded to reports that President Trump disparaged uniformed military and veterans, including those wounded or killed in war, and calling them “losers” and “suckers,” in a statement she released on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020.
Slotkin said she deeply hoped the president “did not make these statements.”
“When I read reports that our commander in chief may have disparaged our uniformed military, our wounded warriors and our war dead, my first thought was that I hoped my husband, a veteran, and my step-daughter, a soldier, would not see those words. The fact that they could see such comments from a president hit me in the gut,” Slotkin said. “This hurts all the more because this is the same president who has sought to use our active duty troops, federal law enforcement, the intelligence community, diplomacy and other elements of the federal government for his own political gain, even as he disparages each of them.
“Everyone, regardless of party or who they plan to vote for, should condemn such statements. The president should make clear his views on our troops, our veterans and their families. If he did make these statements, he truly owes them an apology.”
The reporting in The Atlantic has since been corroborated by a number of media outlets, including Fox News.
Representative Slotkin repeatedly pushed forward the lie about President Trump’s campaign colluding with the Russian Government. Once proved that it was the Democrats who created that entire narrative she never offered an apology; neither to the President nor her constituents.
Then Representative Slotkin voted in favor of the impeachment of our President. She explained in a local town hall that she favored impeachment because the President asked the Ukrainain President to “dig up dirt on a political opponent.” At its best, that was a terribly flawed explanation, but at its worst (and as I suspect) an outright lie. Asking for an investigation that determines whether or not a United States official (e.g. “Vice President of the United States”) used his influence to benefit his son is not an impeachable offense. It’s what you would expect an honest President to do; especially if one of his campaign promises was to “drain the swamp”.
Now she’s at it again! A third-rate reporter writing for a third-rate publication comes up with a story that’s two years old, yet right in the middle of a presidential election, and she runs with it. She pushes it forward as truth even though the article references only “unnamed sources” and there are plenty of named sources who refute it. Even Ambassador Bolton, no friend of the President, says that the President didn’t say the things reported in the article. She pushes it forward as truth even though the average American can clearly see that those words are contrary to everything we know to be true about our President. He supports our military and has always done so.
Shame on Representative Slotkin for using this story as a political weapon to try and undermine our President.
Shame on Representative Slotkin for putting forth this as truth even though high ranking officials have said the President never said these things.
Shame on Representative Slotkin for taking one of the strengths of our President (his love and support for our military) and trying to turn it into a weapon against him. Her words are a slap in the fact to every person who has served our country including her husband. She has done a very poor job for her constituents and now she has enraged many of them.
Representative Slotkin famously said, “Party over country….always.” Apparently for her its is party over service; party over vets, party over truth.”
Printing Slotkins comments is a waste of space. She certainly did not repeat All the denials of such comments by people who are not fond of the President – more political dribble from her.