"You might remember him mocking and deriding the injuries of those American troops, saying U.S. troops who had traumatic brain injuries because of that Iranian retaliatory attack, they weren't really injured because he didn't think traumatic brain injury was real. He didn't think it was serious, at least wasn't anything serious. You know, like, you know, bone spurs or something."
Rachel Maddow commented on Trump's handling of U.S. military casualties following Iranian attacks. She referenced a 2020 incident where Trump dismissed traumatic brain injuries sustained by American servicemembers after Iran's retaliatory strike on U.S. bases in Iraq following the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Maddow highlighted Trump's mockery of these injuries, noting his apparent disbelief in the seriousness of traumatic brain injury. She drew a parallel to Trump's Vietnam War-era bone spurs deferment, suggesting a pattern of dismissing military service and sacrifice.
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