Tara Setmayer: ‘Disgusting’ Trump Is Using Veterans as ‘Political Pawns’

‘So now veterans are his high priority but he hasn’t donated them hardly anything as a billionaire’

SETMAYER: “Also Donald Trump has not put his money where his mouth is this time, OK? Because he — from 2009 in the 2013 ‘Forbes’ magazine documented this — his charitable foundation only gave 57,000 dollars to direct services for military veterans. And Donald Trump personally did not donate to his own foundation during that time period. So now veterans are his big priority but he hasn’t donated them hardly anything as a billionaire. He [indecipherable] about how much money he has — where has that been? Where has that consistent support, financial support for our veterans been when the cameras weren’t in front of him and when it wasn’t politically expedient. I think it is disgusting that he is using our veterans as political pawns in a chess game like this. And I really don’t like the idea that the other campaigns are throwing money out like ‘Oh, well, we’ll donate this, we’ll donate that.’ I know their hearts are in the right place, but let’s not do that without veterans.”
COSTELLO: “All right.”
SETMAYER: “This is not — I don’t think this is becoming at all. It has turned into a parlor game and it shouldn’t.”

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