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10-04-2016, 02:17 AM
Trump provokes anger by suggesting vets with PTSD are **t 'strong'
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Donald Trump stunned his audience (and enraged onlookers on social media) Monday at the Retired American Warriors PAC, in Herndon, Virginia, when he suggested that veterans with PTSD are **t "strong."
SEE ALSO: Study finds Trump 4 times more likely than Clinton to 'mock or criticize' on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/trump-tweets-more-likely-to-mock-criticize/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Asked what his approach to tackling PTSD (or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) would be, Trump insisted (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-veterans-ptsd-**t-strong-a7343556.html) he would take a "very, very robust" approach before launching into the comments (http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/03/politics/donald-trump-ptsd-suicide/) that many have found offensive.
"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, **body would believe it," he said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/trump-ptsd-comments/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Donald Trump stunned his audience (and enraged onlookers on social media) Monday at the Retired American Warriors PAC, in Herndon, Virginia, when he suggested that veterans with PTSD are **t "strong."
SEE ALSO: Study finds Trump 4 times more likely than Clinton to 'mock or criticize' on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/trump-tweets-more-likely-to-mock-criticize/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Asked what his approach to tackling PTSD (or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) would be, Trump insisted (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-veterans-ptsd-**t-strong-a7343556.html) he would take a "very, very robust" approach before launching into the comments (http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/03/politics/donald-trump-ptsd-suicide/) that many have found offensive.
"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, **body would believe it," he said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/trump-ptsd-comments/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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