Scott Perry Says Democrats ‘Hate the Military,’ Echoing Trump’s Attacks

By Annie Karni

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, the former chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, accused Democrats in a recent interview of hating the military and serving for purely political reasons.

“They hate the military,” Mr. Perry said of Democrats during an interview last week on the Chris Stigall Show, a nationally syndicated conservative radio program. “That’s only a credential that they get when they want to run for office. They join the military, they serve a little bit, they get the credential and then they run for office and wear the uniform and say, ‘Look at me — I support America.’ But let’s face it, all their votes say they don’t support America.”

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