On Monday, Donald Trump delivered a stirring message to veterans at the Retired American Warriors PAC. In response to concerns about the application of spiritual programs to the problem of miltiary suicides, Donald Trump had a convoluted response that included this insight.
When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it but a lot of people can't handle it …
If that didn’t make it clear enough, Trump was later questioned about inefficiencies at the VA, and revisited the same idea.
I’ve heard stories that are so horrible. I … people are killing themselves while they’re waiting on line because … you know, it’s days and days before they can have what could be a simple procedure, what could be a simple prescription. They have to wait so long that they end up … they can’t take it. They can’t take it.
If you’re strong, you don’t get bothered by war. Or anything really. And you don’t go and get yourself captured like John McCain.
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