Trump Accused Vets of Stealing Money in Iraq. This Vet’s Response is PERFECT
Sergeant Corbin Reiff couldn’t take it anymore and unleashed a viral tweetstorm after seeing the Republican’s presumptive presidential nominee dishing innuendo and making outrageous allegations that US soldiers in Iraq were corrupt and stealing reconstruction money.
An Army veteran, Sgt. Reiff was deployed for a year in 2009 as a claims adjuster in Baghdad and responsible for compensating the numerous claims of damage by Iraqi citizens for half of the populous capital city, fighting for the hearts and minds of the citizens of a city we destroyed in the bombardment.
Last night, Donald Trump made the bizarre decision to blame our servicemen for the outrageous corruption and embezzlement committed by private military contractors during the Iraq War, showing just how little he knows about the events of our nation’s most recent overseas engagement and showing a flagrant disrespect for the brave men and women who risked their lives overseas.
The idea that Trump would call out the integrity of those who answered the call of service and deployed to a war zone is repellent. For this reason, and many more, he’s proven that he’s someone with neither the temperament, nor the character, to be Commander in Chief. Don’t believe him when he says he’s for Veterans.
It’s lip service entirely.
Donald Trump is notorious for paying lip service to veterans, but as we’ve reported he loves to fire active service members too, like these three service people illegally dismissed from from two of the vulgar businessman’s many companies, the Trump University and from Trump Airlines. Both businesses owned by Trump illegally fired servicemen for being on active duty!
Sgt. Corben Reiff won’t buy Trump’s two-faced fallacies, and neither should members of the Republican party and its elected officials who swear allegiance to the US Constitution, not to a party or a man. If he cannot, how can any rational American seriously consider voting for a man that consistently disenfranchises, denigrates and verbally abuses our countrymen that serve across the globe with distinction and valor, in dangerous missions overseas, who he’d have to command as President, in the United States armed forces?
Leave it to a member of the US Armed forces to use Trump’s favorite weapon – the tweet – far more effectively than the humble-bragging and racist tweeting Republican candidate ever will.
You can see Reiff’s tweetstorm right here:
I rarely discuss politics on this platform, but yesterday, the Republican nominee for President said something that compels me to speak out.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
I spent five years, from 2006-2011 as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
That’s an area that covers roughly 5 million people. I was 21 years old and will admit, very much in over my head.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
So if a helicopter dropped a flare and burned a kid, or an MRAP ran into a generator or someone's goat while on patrol…
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
Affected citizens would make the drive from as far as Lebanon on a weekly basis to see if their claims had been adjudicated.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
I basically spent a year of my life in an aluminum trailer, away from my friends and family enduring mortar attacks nearly every night.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
I had to look widows and orphans in the eye as tears ran down their cheeks telling me through an interpreter their heartbreaking stories.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
In the course of my job, I was entrusted with a lot of taxpayer money, all in American cash.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
Yesterday, @realDonaldTrump, a man who never served in any capacity said this about me and my brethren that served in Iraq.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
"I want to know who were the soldiers that had that job, because I think they’re living very well right now.” https://t.co/DFZU5VEKhN
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
Here’s our story FYI:
My latest @OccupyDemocrats: Draft-Dodger #NeverTrump Just Accused American Vets of Stealing Billions in Iraq – https://t.co/KsCwuhi2nK
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) June 15, 2016
In my time overseas, the procedures that were put in place to prevent that from happening were frustratingly thorough.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
In my time overseas, the procedures that were put in place to prevent that from happening were frustratingly thorough.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
Don’t believe him when he says he’s for Veterans. It's lip service entirely.
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
A very very young me with my interpreter out in Baghdad around 2010. pic.twitter.com/q21cQwETD0
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) June 15, 2016
is the Executive Editor of Occupy Democrats and published author. His new Meet the Candidates 2020 book series is distributed by Simon and Schuster. He's also mortgage broker, community activist and radio personality in Miami, Florida., as well as the producer of the Dworkin Report podcast. Grant is also an occasional contributor to Raw Story, Alternet, and the DC Report, and an unpaid senior advisor to the Democratic Coalition and a Director of Sunshine Agenda Inc. a government transparency nonprofit organization. Get all of his stories sent directly to your inbox here: