JOHN YANG:
The reaction from previous Obama authorities was speedy and powerful.
Previous Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted this picture and firmly insisted: “Stop the damn lying. I went to Dover Air Force base with 44 and saw him comfort households,” a referral to among Mr. Obama’s late-night journeys to pay his aspects to soldiers eliminated in Afghanistan.
Mr. Obama and President George W. Bush frequently checked out injured warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda health centers, a practice Mr. Trump has actually continued. In February, the president and his child Ivanka went to Dover for the return of the remains of a Navy SEAL eliminated in Yemen, the very first casualty of his administration.
Far this year, the Pentagon states 16 Americans have actually been eliminated in action. Another 17 sailors passed away in mishaps. In the very first year of the Obama presidency, 344 were eliminated in action.
Throughout in 2015’s project, Mr. Trump openly feuded with the Khans, the moms and dads of a Muslim American soldier eliminated in Iraq, after they slammed him at the Democratic Convention.
Today, the Khans stated: “President Trump’s self-centered and dissentious actions have actually weakened the self-respect of the high workplace of the presidency.”
The existing debate comes as concerns are being raised about how and why the 4 soldiers passed away in Niger.
Senator Jack Reed is the leading Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.