Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images(SARASOTA, Fla.) — Vice President Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump’s comments about veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder Monday, saying it shows he’s “completely uninformed.”
“Where in the hell is he from?” Biden said at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Sarasota, Florida. “No no no no. This is deadly earnest.”
“Over 200,000 coming home with unseen wounds. 20 suicides a month. I don’t think he was trying to be mean. He is so thoroughly completely uninformed,” Biden later said.
Biden, whose son Beau served in Iraq, grew animated and angry as he talked about a young captain who had risked his own life when he pulled someone out of a burning Humvee.
“When I went to pin it on him in front of the entire brigade he stood and looked at me and said, ‘Sir I don’t want the medal. I don’t want the medal. You know why? He said he died. He died Mr. vice president I don’t want the medal. How many nights does that kid go to sleep seeing that image in his head, dealing with it?” Biden said.
The vice president repeated his mantra that the most sacred obligation the U.S. has is “to care for those we send to war and to care for them and their families when they come home.”
“What are the chances this guy will honor that commitment?” Biden asked. “I’m serious about it. It’s not that he just doesn’t get it. He has no interest in finding out.”
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