THREAD: A bit more on the veterans in my family, who I’m so proud of, some Rep, some Dem, all patriots who served by choice. To absorb that the draft-dodging, criminal fraudster, posing as President would refer to such people as ‘suckers’ & ‘losers’ is sickening #WeRespectVets .. https://twitter.com/edwardnorton/status/1302591687982821377

2) My dad joined the Marines out of conviction that ‘ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country’ had real meaning. He was at Con Thien through the summer of ‘67. Ignorant Cadet Bone Spurs has zero clue what that means but Marines surely do.

3) My beloved grandfather, James W Rouse, left home & new daughter (my mom) to serve as Lt Cmndr in Navy Air Force in Pacific Fleet, WW2. 1942-1945. My wonderful uncle, Tom Hutt US Navy Ret, full career officer in nuclear class submarines. His son, my dear cousin, Thomas Hutt..

4) ...20 year career as Army aviator flying Apaches & Blackhawks, then serving as officer in SoComm Italy, & like his dad, raising a wonderful family during his service. Donald Trump & his enablers don’t belong in the same room w people like them.

5) Trump demonstrably can’t comprehend service. Maybe this is why he won’t respond to Russian bounties placed on our troops (on top of the various forms of leverage Putin clearly has on him)..he really does think people who choose to serve & risk their life for their country..

6)...are fools. He can’t relate to anyone who isn’t acting transactionally to further their own interest. He’s a pure grifter, in thrall to (and unquestionably in actual debt to) the enemies of our country working actively at this moment to undermine our elections.

7) Such a person being President & Commander in Chief is an abomination. Men & women in uniform, and all who support them, must repudiate & reject this offensive traitor. He is willfully undermining the ideals & institutions people have died to defend & promote.