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MOULTON: "Well, first of all, I think everyone was relieved that it wasn‘t politicized by the president. The way he politicized his speeches at fort Bragg and west point in recent days. So that was a relief. But I‘ll tell you, sitting here as a veteran and watching this from a president who has occasionally praised and oftentimes denigrated the U.S. Military, I‘m just reminded by how out of touch this guy is. I mean, first of all, in his opening line of the speech, he talks about the U.S. Army being the fiercest fighting force the world has ever seen. Everyone knows that the United States marine corps. So he‘s clearly out of touch. The second he talks about this amazing story of this real hero in the army who lost his cheekbone and his ear and keeps fighting. And remember, this is a guy who concocted a story about a bone spur to prevent getting drafted himself. Donald Trump is a draft dodger, and to hear him talking about these heroes from the army, it was really pretty hypocritical with regards to the cost. I just got to tell you, you know, $200 million is what we‘re looking at as a baseline cost for this parade. And while that might seem like a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of a U.S. Aircraft carrier or something like that, imagine what you could do with $200 million for veterans. You know, doge is eviscerating the VA, firing thousands of people who care for our veterans every day. I just was on the phone with a marine from my second platoon, who is struggling to get the VA to take care of him, even though he has tumors all over his body, something that other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have reported, and why President Biden expanded care for the VA so much. So there‘s a lot of good you could do for the nation‘s troops and veterans with $200 million. That doesn‘t involve a spectacle on the president‘s birthday."