US President Donald Trump on Tuesday’s Truth Social platform attacked the democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, who he again accused of introducing military service during the Vietnam War and asks for his investigation. Trump’s contribution was preceded by Blumenthal’s dispute with the Minister of Justice of the US Pam Bondi during her congress interrogation. AFP reported on Wednesday, TASR writes.
In his contribution, Trump accused Blumenthala of deceiving his service in the army during the Vietnam war for years while married a war hero. “This guy shouldn’t be in the US Senate at all. This should be investigated and justice should be established, ” wrote Trump.
Blumenthal has been in the Senate since 2011 as a representative of the State of Connecticut, which is adjacent to Trump’s home state of New York. During the Vietnamese War, Blumenthal received a postponement of compulsory service five times. He joined the seafood in 1970, but never served in Southeast Asia.
Already in 2010, during his first campaign before the election to the Senate, Blumenthal was accused of being introduced in connection with his service in the army. At that time he admitted that he did not comment quite “clearly and exactly” in terms of description of his service in reserves of naval infantryCBS News said.
Blumenthal is one of Trump’s long -term critics – in 2017 Trump sued for a alleged violation of the constitutional provision on remuneration prohibited by government officials to receive gifts from foreign entities. Finally, the court dismissed the case, but their personal conflict has persisted since then.
Trump himself never served in Vietnam. During this war, he received five times a postponement of entry into military service – four for study and fifth for allegedly health reasons – for bone spurs. This reason was later questioned by several media, CBS News added.
In the past, Trump also had disputes with veterans and politicians with a military past. In 2015, he questioned the heroism of the deceased Republican Senator John McCain, who was a prisoner in Hanoi during the war for five years. “It’s not a war hero. Was a hero just because they captured him,“He said Trump.
A year later, he also came into conflict with Khizra Khan, the father of a Muslim soldier Pallo in Iraq, accused of “attack on the President”, When he criticized his policy towards Muslims.
