Trump Was at Walter Reed With 14 Soldiers He Wounded. He Visited Zero.

On Tuesday, President Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for his fourth physical examination of the year. Also at Walter Reed: at least 14 U.S. service members wounded in Operation Epic Fury, the war with Iran that Trump launched. According to CBS News, Trump did not visit any of them. When asked directly whether the president met with any of the wounded from the Iran war, the White House declined to answer.The only one of the 14 whose identity is publicly known is Sergeant Cory Hicks, a 19-year Army veteran who survived a March drone strike on his base in Kuwait that killed six Americans. Hicks sustained a lacerated kidney, a severed spleen, and a traumatic brain injury, and has spoken publicly about the survivor’s guilt he carries. The Defense Department has not released the identities of the other wounded service members.This follows a documented pattern. After Iranian strikes on U.S. forces in Iraq in January 2020 caused traumatic brain injuries to dozens of American troops, Trump publicly downplayed the injuries as “headaches.” A CBS News investigation later found that dozens of those brain-injured soldiers were denied the Purple Heart, a decision that minimized the severity of their wounds. One of those soldiers later died by suicide.In 2017, during his first term, Trump visited Walter Reed and personally awarded a Purple Heart to a soldier who had lost a leg, in a widely photographed ceremony. The contrast is the point: when wounded soldiers serve his image, he seeks them out; when they are evidence of a war he started, he walks past them.If you or someone you know is a veteran in crisis, call or text the Veterans Crisis Line at 988, then press 1.Sources:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-visited-soldiers-walter-reed-not-14-injured-in-iran-war/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/purple-heart-us-soldiers-iran-al-assad-air-base-attack-traumatic-brain-injury/ Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe