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What are Seth Moulton's views on Trump's treatment of veterans?
I'm joined by Democratic Congress member Seth Moulton. Congressman, your former Marine Donald Trump's actions seem to be disproportionately attacking the veteran community, the spouses of members of the armed services, both in terms of the cuts in the federal government, where a lot of veterans work, as well as to veterans affairs. We're learning what 60, 70,000 jobs could be lost.
I want to get your reaction to that.
Yeah, I mean, look, Trump has never liked veterans. I mean, let's not forget, this is the guy who literally made fun of John McCain for being a POW in Vietnam, who called people who sign up losers, and if you get killed, a sucker. I mean, this is just who Trump is.
He dodged the draft himself because he thought someone else less important than him, I guess, as a guy in his early 20s should go to Vietnam in his place. So it's really not a surprise. It shouldn't be a surprise. People who believe his rhetoric about how he's tough and he's going to restore confidence in the military and things like this, it just doesn't line up with his personality.
So no, it's not surprising that he's cutting the VA and a lot of veterans are going to get hurt.
Yeah, not a surprise that that's coming from him. But are you surprised that pretty much all of your colleagues have gone and the Republican side have gone full MAGA at this point, giving standing ovations as Donald Trump talks about conquering Greenland and Panama or giving standing ovations as he talks about revoking the CHIPS Act, which brings a lot of jobs even to their red states.
Does that aspect surprise you?
They're doing it for one reason, Ben. It's not MAGA. It's a one-word answer, fear. That's why they're doing it. They're just cowards. They're so scared of him. And they say totally different things in private than what they say in public. So, yeah, they're going to get on TV and act like sycophants because they're scared that he'll primary them if they don't.
But then in private, they don't like what he's doing. They actually do respect veterans. They do respect NATO. I sat at the Munich Security Conference just three weeks ago with the likes of Senator Graham, a tirely bipartisan delegation of Republicans and Democrats from the House of Representatives,
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