VFW Slams 'Asinine' Trump Over His 'Crassly'-Made Medal Of Honor Remarks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "That's the highest award you can get as a civilian, it's the equivalent of the congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version," said Trump as he referred to GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson receiving the civilian award from him in 2018.
59% : The statement from one of the nation's largest veteran advocacy organizations comes after Trump compared the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, to the military decoration during a campaign event in Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday.
57% : The veteran advocacy organization knocked Trump for calling a civilian award "much better" than the nation's highest military decoration.
18% : Trump has a history of making controversial comments about soldiers and veterans including notably denying claims that he referred to American service members who died in World War I as "suckers" and "losers.
13% : Trump mocked the late senator earlier this year over injuries he sustained during his time in the military and declared in 2016 that McCain was not "a war hero" before noting that he likes people "who weren't captured.

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