A new ad from The Lincoln Project, an organization made up of conservatives opposed to Donald Trump, features a former Navy SEAL saying that a US leader “would be stomping the living shit out of the Russians” for Russia’s alleged plot to pay Taliban fighters to kill US and allied forces in Afghanistan.
Dr. Dan Barkhuff, a 2001 US Naval Academy graduate and current emergency room physician, expresses his disgust with Trump’s apparent lack of response to targeted killings of US and allied personnel.
“Any Commander-in-Chief with a spine would be stomping the living shit out of the Russians right now,” Barkhuff states, looking directly into the camera. “Diplomatically, economically, or if necessary, with the sort of asymmetric warfare they’re using to send our kids home in body bags.”
Barkhuff, the founder of Veterans for Responsible Leadership, goes on to directly challenge Trump to explain his inaction.
“Mr. Trump, you’re either a coward who can’t stand up to an ex-KGB goon,” Barkhuff asserts as photos of Trump and Putin together appear on the screen, “or you’re complicit. Which is it?”