Donald Trump’s Oval Office speech to the nation Wednesday night was mostly a rehashed collection of rhetoric about how incredibly bad conditions were during Joe Biden’s term and how incredibly great everything is now, on a trajectory of greatness so immense that the mind reels. There was one, and only one, nugget of news nestled in the angry tirade: a $1,776 bonus for military servicemembers he called a “warrior divided.”

Given the president’s well-known love for mailing out checks bearing his signature, you might have assumed someone on his staff came up with this idea, but as Defense........

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