Former president Trump is once again being accused of minimizing injuries suffered by American troops during a 2020 Iranian missile attack. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00Former President Trump is once again being accused of minimizing injuries suffered by American troops.
00:05At a campaign event in Milwaukee Tuesday, Trump was asked if he should have been tougher on Iran
00:10after over a hundred service members were injured in a 2020 attack on a U.S. base in Iraq.
00:15So, first of all, injured. What does injured mean?
00:17Injured means you mean because they had a headache, because the bombs never hit the fort.
00:21There was nobody hurt other than the sound was loud, and some people said that hurt, and I accept that.
00:29According to NPR, at least 45 troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in the attack.
00:34Trump's comments Monday echo statements he made shortly after the attacks four years ago.
00:38I heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it is not very serious.
00:46Minnesota Governor Tim Walz brought these comments up in Tuesday's vice presidential debate.
00:51When Iranian missiles did fall near U.S. troops and they received traumatic brain injuries,
00:58Donald Trump wrote it off as headaches.