Trump “minimized these troops’ injuries,” VFW National Commander-in-Chief William “Doc” Schmitz said in a statement Friday, after a Pentagon announcement that the number of injured troops had risen to 34. Not very serious,” Trump told reporters this week in Davos, Switzerland. ADADAsked whether he considered traumatic brain injury to be serious, the president said no. “I don’t consider them very serious injuries, relative to other injuries that I’ve seen,” he said. Jeremy Butler, chief executive of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said traumatic brain injury is “the signature injury coming out of” those two conflicts.

Source: Washington Post January 25, 2020 23:15 UTC