Despite being known for avoiding military service himself due to a clinical provision for bone spur, former US President Donald Trump on Thursday received a Purple Heart award from a war veteran.
The veteran-identified John Ford tells Trump in a videos shared on X by Trump that he is giving him the Purple Heart he earned after being injured as a reward for the “great work you’ve done for our nation” and the “injuries” Trump has received.
The latter was perhaps a guide to the July 13 assassination attempt against the previous president, in which a bullet grazed his ears in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In the movie of Trump’s short conference with Ford on Wednesday, the former leader asks the former, as he hands him the award:” Is that yours”?
” Yes dear, it has my name on it”, the man answers.
” That’s fantastic”, Trump says, before passing the award to an aide.
The Purple Heart, the government’s oldest honor, is given to those wounded or subsequently to those killed. Trump received the award theater at his march in Duluth.
Earlier this month, a Vietnam War veteran even joined Trump backstage during a campaign event in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and presented him with his prize.
Following the attempted assassination of the former president, the veteran, who was only identified as Dwight by the campaign, claimed he” could n’t think of anyone more deserving of having a Purple Heart.”
In a split movie, shared by Trump adviser Dan Scavino on X, Trump shows off the prize, saying:” That’s the original! I can see that”.
In addition to receiving a Purple Heart from a former during the 2016 plan, experts in the field of military medals have posed questions and concerns. Although these professionals concurred that giving a wounded former a Purple Heart is both satisfactory and lawful, critics questioned whether Trump may have accepted the award given that the previous leader had not served in the military.
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