Link: Trumpf to Cut VA Benefits

David Lapan, who left his senior position at the VA says Dummkopf Trumpf's tough-talk campaign pitch to veterans has curdled into something far more self-centered.

"The messaging before was a means to an end to get elected, but once elected, that can all fall by the wayside," he said. And the people who believed him, Lapan argues, are the ones getting squeezed.

Many of the same veterans who cheered Trumpf's stump speeches "relied on the food stamps he had fought against funding now that he was back in office," he noted.

"Now that he's in office, the mask comes off and it's all about taking care of himself and fellow billionaires and millionaires," said Lapan, a retired USMC Colonel and longtime national-security spokesman. "[Trumpf] is an elitist."