“’Furious’: Veterans slam Trump team’s altercation at Arlington National Cemetery,” USA Today claimed Wednesday in a Harris/Walz campaign ad disguised as news credited to four “reporters.” “Some veterans reacted with alarm to reports of an altercation between a member of Donald Trump’s entourage and a top official at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday…”
It went from “veterans” to “some veterans” in the blink of an eye, making it fair to ask, “Which veterans?” And while we get a few names, it’s up to readers curious enough to do their own research to determine if the sources are honest brokers or if they have political skin in the game.
“For a lot of us, and I’m not the only one, people are aptly furious,” Tim Wellman, identified as “a 22-year Army combat veteran,” claimed. What Wellman was not identified as was the host of @OnDemocracyPod and National Chairman Forgotten Democrats, whose X banner shows idealized portraits of Barack Obama with the slogan “Hope,” Joe Biden with the slogan “Heal,” Kamala Harris with the slogan “Grow,” and an angry Donald Trump with the slogan “Hate.”
Any guesses where he stands?
Former Army undersecretary and Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Murphy called the Trump campaign’s recording of the former president laying wreaths and honoring the fallen in a private ceremony, at the request of family members of personnel killed in the Biden administration’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, “a new low.” For reasons only the four “reporters” can explain, they chose not to put a standard practice (D) after his name to let readers know Murphy’s a Democrat. Of interest to AmmoLand readers, he’s one who “signed on to sponsor legislation which would outlaw hundreds of commonly owned guns.”
Next up is an X video from Veterans for Responsible Leadership, which claims to be Non-partisan veterans” and follows that up with a pinned “tweet” soliciting signatures for a petition that begins, “We, as veterans, find Donald Trump unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief. …he is a known and serious risk to service members, our apolitical military tradition, and to the U.S. Constitution.”
The next “furious” vet is “Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Eaton, a senior adviser at the progressive political action committee VoteVets, [who] called the campaign’s actions at the cemetery ‘nauseating.’” USA Today made sure to include an unproven and denied “suckers and losers” allegation published before the 2020 election by the Biden-endorsing The Atlantic, but neglected to mention Eaton’s also a longtime Democrat supporter, having served on Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, who tweeted “President Biden has our six. America and our allies,” and who is now running interference for Tim Walz.
These are the “furious veterans” USA Today used to create an illusion of wider sentiment, all of them Democrat apparatchiks. And again of interest to AmmoLand readers is every one of them supports the Democrat/Harris citizen disarmament agenda, as does one of its biggest cheerleaders, USA Today and its parent Gannett Corporation, long known for dispensing with its own ethics policies to attack gun owners and the right to keep and bear arms.
- The Federalist reported “USA Today uses left-wing college interns to censor news media and opinion articles they disagree with, working hand in glove with unaccountable social media giants to suppress it.”
- Per CNN, The Journal News published “[a]n interactive map showing the names and addresses of all handgun permit holders in New York’s Westchester and Rockland counties.”
- Per Fox News, The Des Moine Register’s Donald Kaul “advocat[ed] deadly violence against NRA, GOP leaders.”
- Last election, the USA Today Editorial Board, which represents itself as “an ideologically and demographically diverse group,” urged readers to “Elect Joe Biden. Reject Donald Trump” without dissent.
They’re using deception to carry Kamala Harris’ water by masking political hit jobs as news instead of the reportable free advertising/in-kind contributions that they are.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
The entire farce was probably as much a leftist set-up as was the Jan 6 equivalent of the “Reichstag fire”.
“Veteran” isn’t some magical status that gives you powers. The “outrage” over a CSM not deploying and retiring as he had planned tells me how little folks actually know about a CSM. I’m pretty sure the unit did just fine without the CSM and that whatever grass they had was still ok after being walked on and that non matching socks didn’t cause us to lose the war. I’m willing to bet the colonel or general found someone else to follow them around like a lost puppy. They probably didn’t run outta coffee in the head shed. The “outrage” over… Read more »
The Big Picture, Trump was there Harris and Stolen Valor Walz were not.
When I see USA Today just as CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, hell most of leftist lamestream media I turn it off.
Democrat scum are Commies. Period. Anyone who wore the uniform for any length of time and vote or support DemoRats are pusswads who deserve nothing but contempt. I spit on those turd munching losers. Remember folks, John Kerry and Bo Berghdahl claim to be big time “combat veterans” too. And McCain, the infamous “Songbird” who busted the cover of a dozen fellow POWs and got them “disappeared by the NVA and Russian Psychos running Hanoi Hilton. Not to mention his broadcasting for the NVA encouraging Americans to surrender or go AWOL. He was a pathetic piece of garbage just like… Read more »
I am an honorably discharged military veteran (US Navy) with a service connected disability. That might make me a little more sensitive to the way veterans are depicted in the media or used as props in political campaigns. In full disclosure, my voter registration shows NPA or no political affiliation but I consider myself to be very conservative. I watched former president Trump honor fallen brothers in arms at Arlington at the request of their families and was deeply touched by his willingness to do so. What I did not see was anyone from the current regime willing to do… Read more »