This hits just keep on coming.
According to CNN:
Donald Trump suggested Monday that American soldiers and veterans who commit suicide do so because they can't handle the post-traumatic stress of war.
"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 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. They see horror stories, they see events you couldn't see in a movie, nobody would believe it," Trump said Monday, during a panel interview at the Retired American Warriors PAC, in Herndon, Virginia.
Here’s the video.
How many times can Trump insult the nation’s veterans before he loses their votes?
Add this to his comments about John McCain not being a hero because he was captured, his treatment of the Khan Gold Star Family and his callous comments about the Purple Heart.
Surely I’m missing others.
These comments have been met with understandably strong reactions from veterans:
Also, recall when Trump couldn’t help but correct a questioner (with wrong information) when she asked about veteran suicides during the Commander in Chief forum: