VoteVets is a group of veterans working to make sure Donald Trump never gets back into the White House.
Started in 2006, VoteVets PAC and VoteVets Action Fund have been the home for progressive veterans, military families, and their civilian supporters for over 15 years. It is the first organization of its kind and the largest, with over one and a half million supporters in all 50 states. VoteVets uses public issue campaigns to relentlessly lift up the voices of veterans on matters of national security, veterans’ care, and everyday issues that affect the lives of those who served, and their families.
—VoteVets.org
After the Trump campaign had their “incident” at Arlington Cemetery where a female member of the staff ended up being pushed by one of Trump’s campaign staff because she told them what the rules were, VoteVets came out with a new ad.
If you don’t know the details of what went on at Arlington Cemetery, one of the Gold Star families invited Trump to the grave of their family member who was killed during the withdraw from Afghanistan. The cemetery let the campaign know before they got there that cameras and video recording equipment were not allowed.
They didn’t listen. When a female staff member tried to tell them they were not allowed to record in a sacred part of the cemetery, a campaign staff member pushed her out of the way. Trump and his campaign spokespeople later ridiculed the woman publicly, saying she was having a “mental health erisode.”
She isn’t filing a complaint over the push because she’s too afraid of what Trump supporters will do to her. While I understand exactly what she means, can we just sit with it for a moment? A candidate running for President has followers who attacked the Capitol on January 6th to find members of Congress and to execute the Vice President of the United States by hanging him on a gallows they had erected outside to hang..who? They built the gallows before they knew what was going to happen with Mike Pence.
Was it meant to be used for the “mass execution” of Democrats they believed would take place during Joe Biden’s inauguration? Sometimes I think we all somehow don’t take enough time to truly grasp the severity of things Trump does.
Trump has sent his “personal army” to the Capitol, he has sent them after individuals like the Georgia election workers who Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump publicly accused of trying to help Biden win.
Why is that “just something that happens” and we all just accept that it happens? I never in my life would’ve believed that a President could refuse to transfer power peacefully, engage in insurrection and a coup against the government he swore to protect, continue to break the law and he would still be allowed to run for president again. That blows my mind!
One last thing: Try super hard to imagine that Obama had refused to transfer power to Trump, engaged in insurrection, created fake electors in key states to overthrow the election, and—just for shits and giggles—we’ll add that he stole classified documents. Do you think the Republicans would just let him run again (if he had the option to)??
Imagine Kamala Harris doing what Trump did at Arlington Cemetery. Here’s where it’s unfair. Because she is a normal, intelligent candidate, she could never get away with that stuff!
Donald Trump has normalized so many awful behaviors that he can just get away with things. He is a mob boss! A woman was assaulted and she is too scared to say anything because of what his minions will do to her!
I. just. can’t.
