Donald Trump has promised to hold military top brass accountable for enforcing vaccine mandates and pushing military personnel out for refusing to be vaccinated.
Trump made the promise during a town hall event, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
An ex-Green Beret who was forced to leave the service because he would not take the COVID-19 vaccine, asked the former president what he would do to reverse the damage caused to the military by the vaccine mandate. The veteran noted that thousands of servicemen and -women were forced to leave, and recruitment for the military is “the lowest… in modern history.”
Trump said he wants personnel forced out by the mandate to return “with pay.”
“There should have never been a mandate,” Trump said. “That should have never happened. You should have been given choice.”
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Trump then asked the former Green Beret if he would return, given the opportunity, and was told “as long as there’s accountability.”
“There’d be accountability all right,” Trump said. “We’ll fire their asses.”
The crowd erupted into applause.
“The mandate was a big mistake, and they treated people terribly.”