He pays them lip service; does he really support vets?

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In at least three cases, Trump’s companies have either fired, or refused to hire, military reservists because of the time commitments demanded of them by their service in the armed forces.

The veterans sued Trump for violating laws meant to protect them from precisely these types of penalties.

In all three cases, Trump and his companies settled the suits.

One involved an Air Force senior master sergeant fired from the Trump Institute in 2007, and one concerned an Army staff sergeant fired from her job at Trump University that same year.

These cases, however, have a predecessor. On May 27, 1988, United States Air Force Col. Charles Beattie submitted orders to his bosses at Eastern Airlines, where he worked as a pilot.

According to the orders, Beattie was to attend the elite Industrial College of the Armed Forces for nine months, starting in August. As required by law, Eastern Airlines granted Beattie a leave of absence to fulfill his military service commitment.

As part of the deal Trump signed with Eastern for the shuttle service, Trump was required to offer employment to all Eastern personnel.

All told, Trump Shuttle hired around 200 pilots from Eastern Air. But it did not hire Beattie.

According to a judicial opinion in Beattie’s 1990 lawsuit against Trump, the new company insisted that all pilots be available to start work on Feb. 1, 1989.

Beattie had applied for a job with Trump, like the rest of his fellow Eastern pilots, but his orders from the Army college required that he stay until June to complete his assignment. For Trump, that was a deal-breaker.


According to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Flannery, this is how it played out:

  • (1) Trump extended offers of employment to all Eastern employees based upon their seniority status;
  • (2) Beattie was an Eastern pilot possessing the requisite seniority;
  • (3) Trump declined to hire Beattie based upon his unavailability on the specified commencement date; and
  • (4) Beattie’s unavailability was caused by his military commitment.


Trump Shuttle, which never turned a profit for Trump, was turned over to his creditors in early 1992, as part of the assets Trump had to sell to settle the first of three corporate bankruptcies.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-fires-veterans-military-service_us_57509590e4b0c3752dcd08cf
 
I was reading somewhere that Trump never had much interest in veterans until he decided to run. He's just pandering, as the record above shows.
 
It only took him 4 months and plenty of questions for him to honor his fundraising promise to them. What a philanthropist.
 
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