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A senior Labor politician accused Donald Trump double standards After he claimed British troops were not fighting At afghan war Frontline, despite avoiding battle vietnam war himself.
lady Emily ThornberryChairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, join in widespread condemnation Trump says British troops were ‘a little bit off the front lines’ in war Afghanistan.
Chapter 457 [British] family who lost someone Afghanistan“How dare he say we are not on the front line,” she said. How dare he. “
She added that the comments came from a man who had “never seen any action himself.”
President Trump famously avoided the draft vietnam war He underwent five surgeries in the 1960s and 1970s, including to treat heel spurs.
“Whenever Americans need us, we are always there,” Mrs. Emily said.
“How dare this man who has never seen action, somehow managed to avoid it while recruiting for everyone else in the United States, but is now Commander-in-Chief with no idea of how America is defended.
“I mean, seriously, it’s absolutely insulting.”
Dame Emily’s speech on BBC program won huge applause from the audience question time.
Controversy over Mr. Trump’s own military record first arose nearly a decade ago, when it was revealed that he had received five “extensions” in rank. vietnam war draft.
Trump said at the time that he could not remember which heel was affected and said the problem was “temporary” and “minor” and that “over time, it healed.”
In 2019, Piers Morgan challenged him on the matter during an interview, with Piers Morgan asking him: “You can’t serve because of a bone spur in your foot. Do you wish you could serve? Would you like to serve your country?”
Trump responded: “I was never a fan of that war. I thought it was a terrible war, far and away. No one had ever heard of Vietnam… It wasn’t like fighting Nazi Germany or Hitler. I didn’t march in the streets or say I was moving to Canada, but I wasn’t a fan.”
Trump said he would have been “honored” if he had served in the U.S. military and has since “made up” for not doing so by increasing defense spending.
Dame Emily accused Trump of trying to “bully” Britain and other Nato countries: “You wonder where this is going to end. It’s like he has no anchor, no off button.”
She is ‘proud’ Britain and its allies have joined forces and says ‘no’ Donald Trumpenough is enough, stop it, you won’t get Greenland, you won’t introduce tariffs, you won’t take military action, that’s the bottom line, don’t cross it. “