Election Fallout: Allegation Of Insult Of Dead Troops Taking Toll On Donald Trump
The election period turbulence is monumental this year, and President Donald Trump is feeling the negative impacts of it. Just when hopes got lit up that Trump may make a comeback in the election polls - a fresh allegation, one of many, has rocked the President’s boat like no other.
More often than not, the situations marked with accusations on Donald Trump, there is an underlying proof to back it up. However, the subject in question differs in that sense. Nationwide, rumors have spread like wildfire that Trump disparaged dead US military servicemen for not being able to take the fight to the end.
It was an Atlantic magazine report, and it came at a time when it could cause the President most damage. While Biden is seizing on the moment, Trump has been pushed on the back foot with the emergence of reports.
The gravity of the allegation was strong, so it was much required for the President to clear the air and he did so. In a statement, Trump furiously denied any such claims that he, by any means, insulted US troops.
Besides Trump, the White House community has come to the rescue. The public denials have come from Vice President and 2020 Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence and his top national security adviser, retired Army General Keith Kellogg.
Despite the efforts, the allegations have brought the President down in the polls due to spreading negative views about him.
According to a poll by the Military Times newspaper and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families conducted in late July and early August, Biden is the preferred one with 43 percent approval from active-duty service members against Trump’s 37 percent approval rating which is pretty low.
Invoking his own son, Beau Biden, a late veteran who died of brain cancer in the year 2015, Biden assailed Donald Trump over allegations of calling dead military servicemen ‘losers’ and ‘suckers.'
The Democratic presidential candidate said, When my son was an assistant US attorney and he volunteered to go to Kosovo, while the war was going on, as a civilian, he wasn’t a ‘sucker.’ When my son volunteered to join the United States military as the attorney general, and went to Iraq for a year, and won the Bronze Star and other commendations, he wasn’t a ‘sucker.’ The service men and women, particularly those who did not come home, are not ‘losers.’”
Trump is suffering the blow, it's time to see how he responds to this in a bit of detail.