Fox News contributor Joey Jones says Biden's speech undid all the work of removing stigma around veterans and mental health.
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Steve all right, our next guest
Steve all right. Our next guest
is calling out Joe Biden for
using this story with a marine
with PTSD.
There was a marine veteran
that had been deployed. A total
of six times
Dodge RAM started down. The
street in front of his house
saw a woman walking her dog ran
over her killed. Her killed, the
dog put her in the back of his
pickup truck molested. Her came
home and called the state police
and said I just killed someone.
There was a voice in my head.
That said, I have to kill
someone.
We have to end the stigma
surrounding mental health
treatment.
Steve okay, joining us now is
Fox NEWS, contributor and Marine
Corps veteran Joey Jones
Joey. You are shaking your head
yesterday when you heard the
former vice president tell that
story.
If is he trying to appeal to
vets to vote for him for him to
use that story says what
you know. I was on my way to
a prosthetic appointment
yesterday, my first one since
Covid started, because I have a
leg, thats wearing holes on the
end of it thats because of
service im, proud to know that,
but to listen to the vice
president. When I was serving
when I lost my legs. Tell a
story like this that one
probably is not grounded. In
fact,
I think that I and your
producers couldnt, find this
story anywhere,
but two that literally equates
serving in war to becoming evil
its be a hornght,
its the worst thing I have ever
heard a presidential candidate
say about men and women serving
and yes, I was listening when
President Trump ran for office
and said a few things I didnt
likes a well
but thats. The worst thing
that undid ten years of work in
the military, nonprofit mental
health community of actually
removing a stigma.
These men and women may lose
their will to live,
but they dont lose their soul.
They may hurt themselves, but
they dont go hurting others,
its very rare,
and for him to tell that story
just because he is had some
shock value and somehow likened
himself to this issue just
shows how out of touchy is and
im personally offended by it
Steve. I see that you are quite
agitated on your twitter feed.
One of the one of your tweets
says were not going to put
were not going to put them up.
Then he literally just said:
post traumatic stress causes one
to become a murderous pervert
and then ends that with we have
to end the stigma.
Well, I think thats, the
worst part about it. Is he
doesnt understand the point of
his own story.
He doesnt understand the point
he is trying to drive home.
You dont tell people hey its
okay. If you are suffering go, get
help,
let people know about it
by telling them them a story. If
you are going to go, kill people
and do heinous things,
and so I can guarantee you. That
story is true. I put my life on
it that man had other issues
that were not connected to war
and might not have even went to
war
thats. The kind of things that
people gloss over
Hollywood loves to connect war
service to becoming evil, and he
is just falling right in to it
because he has donors and
supporters out there
narrative makes sense.
The truth is very different.
Yes, I was very upset. These are
men and women that I fight every
day to keep alive and keep hope
in their hearts and to tell a
story like that was not only
irresponsible but malpractice. As
a politician
Steve, we have a Fox news poll,
they polled a number of vets and
the question is: if the
presidential election were held
today, President Trump would get
fifty six percent of the votes.
Joe Biden would get forty percent of the
votes.
This has a margin of error of
about eight percent.
It was conducted about a week
ago.
What does that poll tell you,
I think by and large the
military diverse now as its
ever been, probably because we
have smart phones and more
informed than we have ever been
thats going to happen,
a pretty good reflection of the
rest of the country.
Most of us are looking past, our
military sufficiency and looking
at the economy or social issues
that we care about as well,
I dont think veterans or
military are, in one caveat
anymore, one silo of voting.
What I will tell you is that one
thing President Trump is doing
right now and has done since he
has been in office. He has
shouldered the political
collateral to make decisions
that benefit our military
striking in Syria, killing
absolutely those aresoleimani.
These are things. Can he do that
dont cost blood and pressure
that are afraid to do?
I think service members will
support him because of it.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-16.