Trump suggests soldiers with PTSD aren’t ‘strong’ and ‘can’t handle it’

Deitch, 47, works at health facilities all over the Bay Area – in his hometown of Martinez, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco – spending time with combat veterans suffering from mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

“These comments, as frightful as they are, are not shocking”.

“It is true that not everyone can handle traumatic events, be it from war, bad vehicle accidents, violent crime or even surviving a hurricane”, a VFW national spokesman said in response to Trump’s comments in a statement provided to ABC News. If Donald Trump took even 3 seconds trying to understand and respect our veterans, he’d understand that.

It was yet another completely tone deaf and offensive comment from Trump on the campaign trail. “Mr. Trump was highlighting challenges veterans face when returning from after serving their country“.

Trump’s reply, to a room full of veterans, reiterated an inaccurate but persistent stigma that mental health problems are a sign of weakness.

Trump’s surrogates said the Republican nominee’s comments were taken out of context, and blamed the media for construing his words. He seemed to try to shift the conversation Saturday night when he suggested, without evidence, that Clinton may have cheated on her husband. NBC’s Chris Pollone reports.

Mr. Trump said he would support those kinds of programs. Robichaux, who suffered from PTSD, added: “I took his comments to be thoughtful and understanding of the struggles many veterans have”.

At a forum with military leaders in Virginia on Monday, one questioner claimed that the “the forces of political correctness” and “social engineering”, “like women in combat, transgender rights, and other issues” were adversely affecting the military.

The Republican nominee also vowed to ensure that the US military is “the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense”. During prepared remarks earlier in the event, Trump called for a “thorough review” of the nation’s cybersecurity, while pivoting to attack Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server.

During a question-and-answer session at the event Monday, Trump also slammed the Obama administration for giving away too much about its plans to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) such as the number of USA servicemembers it’s deploying overseas.

He also criticized Clinton for saying during the campaign that she is against sending boots on the ground to fight ISIS.

Now Trump’s campaign has another set of issues to clean up. The Times said the size of the loss could have allowed Trump to avoid owing federal taxes for almost two decades, an assertion his campaign neither confirmed nor disputed. As president he would instruct the Department of Justice to create a joint task force to crush the still developing area of crime, he said. Obama pointed out that asking for help is an act of courage. “A lot of the suicide is [because] people can’t get to see doctors, because the waits are so long”, Trump said.