An angry Joe Biden calls Donald Trump 'completely uninformed' following PTSD comments


Vice President Joe Biden blasted Donald Trump on Monday for comments he made that seemed to suggest veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are not "strong," calling Trump "so thoroughly, completely uninformed."
During an event with the Retired American Warriors PAC earlier Monday, Trump told an audience of veterans, "When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it." Trump took heat on social media and in Florida, where Biden was holding a rally for Hillary Clinton.
"Where in the hell is he from?" Biden asked. Telling the crowd he was "deadly earnest," Biden said he has visited Iraq and Afghanistan more than 29 times, and once was asked by a general to pin a Silver Medal on a captain who risked his life to pull a fellow soldier out of a burning Humvee. The soldier told Biden he didn't want the medal, because the man had died. "How many nights does that kid go to sleep, seeing that image in his head, dealing with it?" a visibly upset Biden shouted. The U.S. has a "sacred obligation" to take care of those who go to war, and their families, Biden added, including the "over 200,000 coming home with unseen wounds." Biden said he doesn't think Trump was "trying to be mean," with his PTSD comments, he is just "so thoroughly, completely uninformed." Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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