Maggie Haberman And Jake Tapper Roast Trump Medal of Honor Slams — Throw Shade Over ‘Bone Spurs’

CNN anchor Jake Tapper and New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman roasted ex-President Donald Trump over his multiple remarks insulting the Congressional Medal of Honor, and threw shade over his own avoidance of military service.

Trump has taken heat from many military veterans over things like his infamous quote — reported by Trump’s then-Chief of Staff John Kelly — calling American war dead “suckers” and “losers.”

In a speech last week, Trump unfavorably compared the Medal of Honor as he recalled giving the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom to mega-MAGA donor Miriam Adelson. Then he did it again.

On Monday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Haberman joined Tapper to discuss the outrage, and they both pointed out apparent weaknesses in Trump’s Vietnam-era deferments for bone spurs:

TAPPER: Maggie, can you explain what he was trying to say and does he understand how at all how offensive those comments are to so many veterans and service members and veterans of foreign wars, which is a nonpartisan as an organization calling his comments asinine.

MAGGIE HABERMAN: Working backwards. I don’t think he understands how offensive it is. I also don’t think he especially cares how offensive it is. And what he was trying to say is exactly what he said. I mean, he has said some version of this before about the medals. I cant remember exactly when it was.

But for a guy who along with his aides has spent years now claiming that he never made the suckers and losers comment, that comment about the medal of honor was pretty close to saying it, that here’s a better — here’s a better medal because you don’t have to die.

You know, one of the things that he was said to have said to John Kelly was — you know, at John Kelly son’s grave site, John Kelly’s son died serving in the military, you know, what — essentially what, what good does this do? You know, what’s the point of this? People lose — you know, you lose your life. What’s the point?

The point is service, and this is just not something that Trump’s mind ever goes to, and it’s pretty remarkable because he is somebody who went to military school when he was a child. But this is just something that he has never processed, never been particularly interested in processing, and it continues to offend a lot of people and it’s mostly notable, Jake right now, because his campaign is waging this assault on Tim Walz and his military service. And then Trump says something like this, and it just reminds everybody that Trump actually did not serve.

TAPPER: Not just that he didn’t serve. He got deferments.

HABERMAN: Yes, he had bone spurs.

TAPPER: He had bone spurs in his foot.

HABERMAN: By a doctor — written — a letter written by a doctor who knew his father.

TAPPER: Yeah, even though he was a college athlete, right? Played basketball and I think even baseball.

HABERMAN: He played baseball, too. I don’t know about college, but he was in high school, certainly.

TAPPER: Yeah. Yeah. I but I don’t know how one who is — well —

HABERMAN: Whatever, you got — you get the point.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.