Trump ATTACK ON BRAVEST will BACKFIRE in HIS FACE
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What is the overall threat Donald Trump poses to American veterans?
So I hope you've been enjoying a bit of the deeper dives we've been doing here at the Midas Touch Network. A little bit of a pivot to the type of content that I think you've been seeing. And as I've said before, I'm not showing Donald Trump videos and I'm not playing his audio. But the threat he poses is very real, and I want to talk about an attack that he is currently engaged in attacking the veteran community. I want to talk very specifically about what he's doing. I don't want to speak in kind of broad language. I want to really get into the nooks and crannies here. So Fred Wellman, who's uh on the Midas Touch network and a veteran himself, here's what he writes. He goes, I'm concerned that this chatter like Wall Street Journal, op-eds, Sean Hannity pieces, The Economist article, all
All talking about cutting veterans' affairs and cutting veterans' benefits are really just trial balloons to what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are going to do to veterans in the veteran community. They're shaping the discussion. So anything short of cutting all of our benefits, healthcare, and closing the VA, is a compromise and Fred Wellman says, what this really means is that millions of veterans are going to be losing life-saving benefits, being thrown into an unready civilian healthcare network and homelessness spiking. I've been in politics long enough to see how this plays out. It's not good.
How does Fred Wellman describe the potential loss of veterans’ benefits?
A lot of the current homelessness problems comes from Ronald Reagan's policies as well, like this, basically throwing people onto the streets. Fred Wellman then says: look, to be perfectly clear, what I'm concerned about is all of this chatter from these op-eds that are basically conditioning people. Now, here's an example of this. Here's the economist headline. This is how they're framing it in kind of an action. Academic way. I referred to it last night on the Midas Touch podcast as the banality of evil, a term that was used to describe what took place during the Nazi era. Here's what The Economist writes: American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits. An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt reduction.
Efforts, the banality of evil right there. Oh, veterans getting rich off of healthcare benefits. Absurdly generous healthcare benefits. Oh, they're they're live are they living in palaces with uh golden toilet bowls? Oh no, that's Mar-a-Lago, that's Donald Trump, that's Elon Musk, that's them. Adam Kinzinger veteran writes: This is an insane article. The vast majority of this increase is because we were exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's our generation's agent orange. As a burn pit veteran myself, the economist is absolutely wrong here. My guess is there were no burn pit vets on the board that wrote this. Exactly. You know, I just don't get who these people are. The audacity these people have to go after and attack our veterans, to attack communities like this.
And then it's just intellectualized through this banality of evil ends. Just to remind you over here, Trump's Project 2025 plan to dismantle veterans' healthcare has different tiers. Four main ones that we should discuss. One, push veterans to A for-profit system. Veterans get pushed out of the VA into for-profit care, and they will receive worse care. Increase the strain on VA facilities. VA care consistently outranks private care.
What does The Economist’s headline ‘American Veterans Now Receive Absurdly Generous Benefits’ really mean?
Cut disability benefits. Millions of disabled veterans could lose critical benefits. Project 2025 seeks to lower the disability ratings to save. Money, gut specialized care for veterans, end specialized care like reproductive health care for women. That's going to be day one. Threatened to end all non-service connected care from the VA, which could affect millions of seniors and women veterans. And then the other categories, you hear my dog sparking in the background, loyalty over expertise. Trump. Loyalists will replace experienced VA workers. Politicization will weaken veterans' health care. And we've already seen, for example, with respect to the Navy.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the overall threat Donald Trump poses to American veterans?
0:00–1:34
2
How does Fred Wellman describe the potential loss of veterans’ benefits?
1:34–3:59
3
What does The Economist’s headline ‘American Veterans Now Receive Absurdly Generous Benefits’ really mean?
3:59–6:34
4
What are the four main components of Trump’s Project 2025 plan to dismantle veterans’ healthcare?
6:34–8:46
5
Why is the appointment of Pete Heggsith as Secretary of Defense concerning for veterans?
8:46–11:41
6
How have disability compensation payments for veterans grown and why does it matter?
11:41–14:58
7
What allegations exist against Pete Heggsith and how might they impact veteran organizations?
14:58–17:03
8
What actions can listeners take to push back against these attacks on veterans?
17:03–17:16
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