{"id":63992,"date":"2016-01-24T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63992"},"modified":"2016-01-24T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T15:23:56","slug":"trump-campaign-and-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63992","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign and veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=63993\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63993\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trumps-Russian-vets-300x129.png?resize=300%2C129\" alt=\"Trump&#039;s Russian vets\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trumps-Russian-vets.png?resize=300%2C129&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trumps-Russian-vets.png?resize=500%2C216&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trumps-Russian-vets.png?w=598&amp;ssl=1 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t&#8217; the first tiem it&#8217;s happened, certainly, but it does happen entirely too often on both sides of the political spectrum. In a recent campaign video, the Trump campaign, while trying to make a point about the shoddy treatment of veterans by the government in comparison to immigrants showed some veterans gathered for a memorial event. Unfortunately for the producers of the video, it was Russian World War II veterans, not American veterans. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/01\/22\/donald-trump-forced-to-delete-video-from-facebook-after-viewers-notice-big-mistake\/\">The Blaze<\/a>, the Trump campaign removed the Russian vets from the video and reposted it on Facebook after a Cruz campaign social media director noticed it;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interesting choice for a photo of veterans in this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> video: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NdxdwpvMDD\">https:\/\/t.co\/NdxdwpvMDD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PiagKGTP8H\">pic.twitter.com\/PiagKGTP8H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Perry (@MrJoshPerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJoshPerry\/status\/690600839765852161\">January 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I guess there aren&#8217;t enough pictures of US veterans on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t&#8217; the first tiem it&#8217;s happened, certainly, but it does happen entirely too often on both sides of the political spectrum. In a recent campaign video, the Trump campaign, while trying to make a point about the shoddy treatment of veterans by the government in comparison to immigrants showed some veterans gathered for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trumps-Russian-vets.png?fit=598%2C258&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gE8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}