The head of veterans’ group founded by Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign voiced hearty support for the armed militia currently occupying
an Oregon wildfire refuge, a fight the billionaire Republican has said
has gone on too long. Jerry DeLemus, co-chair of
Veterans for Trump in New Hampshire, said in a Tuesday
interview with Reuters
that Bundy and his allies have already seen “great success” in their
fight against the “thug-like, terroristic” efforts of the federal
government to wrest control of public lands from local ranchers. DeLemus traveled to visit
the occupation in Burns, Oregon
earlier this month, and concluded the self-styled militia’s cause is
“peaceful” and “constitutionally just.” According to Reuters, DeLemus
also spent a month in 2014 at the Nevada ranch of Cliven Bundy, who
staged his own armed showdown with the federal government over public
grazing lands. Despite
Trump’s earlier remarks that “you have to maintain law and order, no matter what” and “
you cannot let people take over federal property,” DeLemus said he wants the GOP frontrunner to know “the whole story.”...
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