Has it really come to this? A scared old man and his Pentagon bully cowering in a catering truck, knowing they could be sending friends and colleagues into the greatest peril.

This is what our leaders look like. A commander-in-chief and secretary of defense willing to use the lives of other Americans as decoys to save their own skins. Not in theory, playing war games on computer screens in faraway lands, but right there. Feet away.

It will go down in history as the day we finally saw Donald Trump for who he is ... a Wizard of Oz who uses trickery and deception to rule. A small man with a big voice. The great irony is that his immense moral vacuum was exposed by a real-life ruse that he cannot explain away.

Trump was deferred five times from fighting in Vietnam as a young man, four because of his college education and once for spurious bone spurs. He never fought like brave presidents from our past like John F. Kennedy, George H. W. Bush, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Ulysses S. Grant, and George Washington.

The only struggle he had was for ratings. But this could end up being Trump’s Fall of Saigon.

After being smuggled onto a military aircraft leaving Air Force One and most of the U.S. party on board as a........

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