EXCLUSIVE: Pfluger Reacts to Allegations That Trump Called Dead Soldiers "Losers" and "Suckers"

SAN ANGELO, TX — August Pfluger had something to say about recent allegations that President Donald Trump called dead U.S. soldiers “losers” and “suckers” in a wide-ranging interview on camera following the monthly San Angelo Home Builders Association luncheon where he also met both of his opponents, Democrat Jon Mark Hogg and Libertarian Wacey Alpha Cody in a candidate forum.

Pfluger, Republican candidate for congress to represent Congressional District 11, first responded to his opponent’s concerns about the proposal to store highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants at the existing nuclear waste storage facility in Andrews, a town near Midland, and in the middle of the Permian Basin. His opponent, Democrat Jon Mark Hogg said storing such waste in the middle of the West Texas oil fields posed a national security risk because of the possibility of terrorism.

Pfluger said he had not heard the terrorism angle, but called for more transparency about the proposal that is currently working its way through federal and state agencies for approval.

On healthcare policy, Pfluger addressed the Shannon Health acquisition of San Angelo Community Medical Center that will form a monopoly hospital system for the region. He said the deal was a state concern, but on the federal level, he said Congress should continue “chipping away” at the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, he supports legislation that will open up more health insurance choices and the ability for insurance companies to sell health insurance products across state lines.

Last week, The Atlantic ran a piece written by Jeff Goldberg, citing anonymous sources, headlined, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers.’” https://www.theatlantic.com/politic… Pfluger served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot during the G.W. Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. His final active duty assignment was working in the National Security Council when National Security Advisor John Bolton was at the helm and President Donald Trump was president. He shared his insights on the allegations against Trump.

The election is November 3. Early voting begins Oct. 13, 2020. The last day to register to vote is Oct. 3.

Watch the video interview above.

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Not even in the office yet and already doing the kings bidding. First time voter Pfluger, be your own man. The seat is safely red. Was John McCain a hero? Does the president know more about war than the Generals and Admirals? Does the military leadership want wars to make profits for makers of arms?

shaderunner, Fri, 09/11/2020 - 01:28
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Get a room...a smaller room.

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While campaigning, Pfluger claimed he was a LtCol (O-5), but now, he’s saying he was a Col (O-6). Which was it?? Did he get a post discharge promotion? There is something very fishy about this guy!

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I would expect nothing less from a Republican candidate, he would not be much of a politician if he did not support his own Party's President. Most military Officers over the rank of Major, have to be half politician to survive the internal horse manure of the promotional systems of the military.

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In the United States of America, we support our military. If you support draft dodger trump you hate them.

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Why display a drab, depressing POW flag when you can show everyone what a winner you are and wrap yourself in TRUMP 2020 kitsch?
America has such a long and storied history of memorializing and idolizing the individual over the office.
Right?
No?
Oh well. You can still decorate like a billion, I mean million - uh - like that tiger king guy.

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Salty, why don't you ask these Trumpoon gasbags what they're going to do if POTUS (Pile Of Terribly Undesirable Shit) succeeds in permanently eliminating the payroll tax as he wants? All it does it fund Social Security and Medicare, and Cheeto-Head has no plan to replace that funding.

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will drag up any old story that is not verified in any way to try to make our great POTUS look bad.
It's shameful. Even John Bolton said it was a stinkin lie.

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If you call dead vets losers, and veterans stupid for answering the call, you hate them. If you kiss the ass of someone who says it, you are the same as that low life coward. Deflect, deflect and deflect. Tactics of the guilty.

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"If I could throw two kinds of people in the garbage it would be the elderly and wounded veterans. When a tool breaks you don’t fix it, you throw it in the damn trash." - Beto O'Rourke

Yes, Mrs. Dash, you *are* just the same. "Deflect," indeed. Here we see your MO. And now that you're backed into a corner the fangs come out. But you're going to lose if you take this to the street, and no one is stupid enough to buy your lies once you lose that fight.

Justice is coming. She cannot see, and she returns what you have given.

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You are in full froth mode. The orange kool aid has taken its toll. If I gave two shits about you, i'd feel sorry for you. But I don't care about folks who hate American servicemen and women. How much do you think trump gave to putin to help aid in his bounties on US Servicemen?

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What you and your camp care about is your own petty interests, America be damned. No matter how much you have to lie, steal, cheat, or incite others to do violence for you - so long as your precious hands don't get dirty.

You are all so many fat gorillas invoking the military when it suits you and kicking them like your under-fed guard dogs when they aren't useful to you or you get bored. You don't care when their families fall apart, when they return injured, or bother to give them proper supplies and equipment to prevent those injuries. You just hoot from the top of the tree and expect them scurry at your beck and call.

All I have informed you of is that Justice is coming. If that makes you and the leaders in your camp angry or fearful, only you are to blame.

Tangentially related: https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup/

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哭泣的婴儿
kraɪˌbeɪ bi
Depending on trumps flavour of the week. Cpl Robert Hendriks was killed in April 2019. We owe it to him to see how much trump paid to have him killed. The orange flavoured right screams disrespect at kneeling, but refuses to spit out trumps shit from their mouths to scream disrespect at "losers" and "stupid" . He likes folks that weren't captured. Disgusting.

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Mrs. Dash just keeps confessing her crimes by saying "Trump" instead of just coming out and saying that the Democrats - or for all I know, the actual user typing into the digital ether - did the act. (Why do these soldiers keep mysteriously getting killed or "disappearing" on US bases? Is a coup ahead?) She even breaks down into her native Mandarin, enraged she isn't getting her way.

No, no. Do the work. Frame the President. Fight the fights. Target or round up those who oppose you. Become the monster you hide by projecting onto the Commander in Chief. Lose the war. Let history unfold as it is meant to unfold, and at the last moment of life, embrace the regret and the fear that envelops you to know how wrong you were.

You I do pity.

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You see, trumps problem with russian bounties, cursing veterans, constant lying, and pretty much everything that is alleged he does, is backed up by himself, and all his former opponents turn ass kissers. They all warned us before his nomination. You can keep trying to get it twisted, but facts are facts. trump is a race-baiting xenophobic bigot, a pathological liar, utterly amoral, a narcissist at a level this country’s ever seen, a delusional narcissist and orange-faced windbag. His biggest fear, he loses and would face prosecution for all his illegalities.

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"rUsSiAn BoUnTiEs"

Next thing you'll be telling me that Trump summoned Pepe the Frog through meme magic and start pushing to have him prosecuted under the state's unenforced witchcraft laws.

I'm sure plenty of people sounded the alarm that Trump might go populist and crash the oligarchs' big BDSM swinger party - and wouldn't you know it, Jeffrey Epstein was exposed and fell like the first domino in the row. I'm sure many people were wary of Trump's sympathies for we mortal plebs out in flyover country, who lack the cunning, tenacity, and unbridled psychopathy to succeed in a banana republic in the making. No doubt his very lack of disdain for the American people made him suspect in high circles.

I'm sure that many very rich and powerful people, not unlike "Mini" Mike Bloomberg, would describe Trump as "a race-baiting xenophobic bigot, a pathological liar, utterly amoral, a narcissist at a level this country’s ever seen, a delusional narcissist and orange-faced windbag." And they would say this unironically and with a straight face, because true narcissists lack the empathy and inclination for self-examination to understand when they're projecting their own flaws onto others. They only understand their own motives, not those of other people - and such minds birthed the narrative you spout.

Trump did not have to run for President. He donates his presidential salary. He knew his presidency would be controversial and dangerous to him and his family. But his biggest fear? Probably something more like dying before he calls out the powers that be on their bullshit and makes the world a better place. In other words: He fears not having truly lived.

And that's dangerous to all the right people.

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Wow, just wow, are you misinformed! According to you, Biden must be an angel sent from God. Now there is your smoking gun! Biden supports all the crazy wackos rioting & defunding police. He can’t speak & put two sentences together, he can’t even correctly state current statistics in his speeches - even with a teleprompter! Oh, let’s not forget his corruption with his son in Ukraine.

Trump is a saint, compared to your retard Biden! A vote for Biden is a vote for Harris’s communism, but clearly you haven’t figured that out yet. I hope you are black, because Harris plans to end all white privilege (that doesn’t exist).

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"..race-baiting xenophobic bigot, a pathological liar, utterly amoral, a narcissist at a level this country’s ever seen"

Those sound more like the attributes of BLM street trash, ANTIFA soy-boy pussies, every Leftist America-hating historical revisionist,the Pelosis, Cuomos, Sharptons and every CNN tabloid commentator which pepper your cult...I mean party.

Put on your Kente Cloth, Ol' Salt, and "take a knee". Overt displays of religiosity are generally frowned upon by the Left, but this inane, hypocritical display of capitulation is but a drop in the swamp of Leftist duplicity.

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One thing I've especially enjoyed these past four years, is watching the plethora of otherwise halfway mature adult Liberals, turn into these butthurt, insolent, blubbering titty babies, who are entirely incapable of containing their inner man-child and ad hominem attacks.

"Cheeto..cheeto..(grumble-grumble)...orange skinned Nazi"..etc., etc..

Trump pisses off all the right assholes, and it's nothing short of hilarious.

#trump2020

#makeliberalscryagain

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