Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz came out swinging at the vice presidential debate with an attack on former President Donald Trump's dismissal of injured U.S. troops made earlier in the day.
Trump, when confronted about an Iranian strike on a U.S. military installation on his watch, said that over 100 servicemembers who suffered traumatic brain injury "had a headache." During a question on Iran's new attacks on Israel, where Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance tried to blame the Biden administration, Walz brought up Trump's inability to even care about the harm he caused troops.
"We'll sometimes hear a revisionist history," said Walz. "But when Donald Trump was in office, it was Donald Trump, who we had a coalition of nations that had boxed Iran's nuclear program in, the inability to advance it. Donald Trump pulled the program and put nothing else in its place. So Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than they were before because of Donald Trump's fickle leadership."
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"And when Iran shot down an American aircraft in international airspace, Donald Trump tweeted, because that's the standard diplomacy of Donald Trump," he continued. "And when Iranian missiles did fall near U.S. troops and they received traumatic brain injuries, Donald Trump wrote it off as 'headaches.'"
"Look, our allies understand that Donald Trump is fickle," Walz added. "He will go to whoever has the most flattery or where it makes sense to him. Steady leadership like you witnessed today, like you witnessed in April. Both Iranian attacks were repelled. Our coalition is strong and we need the steady leadership that Kamala Harris is providing."
