Trump allies use Iraq War to deflect claim he called dead troops 'losers'

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President Donald Trump's allies point to the Iraq War as they defend him from claims he called dead American soldiers 'losers' and 'suckers.'

President Donald Trump's allies have rushed to his defense following reports that he called dead American troops"losers" and"suckers," with some prominent supporters, including his eldest son, using the Iraq War to criticize Joe Biden.editor Jeffrey Goldberg of being"a propagandist for the Military Industrial Complex" on 4 September.and refusal to visit a military cemetery.

"It says everything about how broken the media is that after @JeffreyGoldberg helped lie this nation into the Iraq War, he wasn't run out of journalism in embarrassment, but rather given promotions to continue his shoddy 'journalism' unabated," Surabian tweeted on 6 September, following up on his own comment.Donald Trump Jr. picked up Surabian's argument and attacked both Goldberg and Biden over Iraq.

"Joe Biden & his media propagandists like @JeffreyGoldberg pretend to care about the troops, but Goldberg printed lies about phony ties between Al-Qaeda & Iraq that politicians like Biden used as justification to vote to send Americans to die in Iraq. Blood is on their hands!!!" he tweeted. "Trump fixed the VA after Obama-Biden left it in shambles/scandal," Trump Jr. went on."Trump is trying to end forever wars. Biden voted for Iraq War & has a 50 yr record supporting unnecessary wars. Trump properly funded our military after Obama-Biden decimated it. Who really disrespects our troops?"Trump War Room, a Twitter account operated by the Trump campaign, shared a video from 2007 of Trump discussing veterans returning from Iraq.

"Nobody talks about the soldiers that are coming back with no arms and no legs... The most beautiful people I've ever seen," Trump said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

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