Trump fielded questions from reporters during a campaign stop in Milwaukee and was asked by one journalist whether he should have responded more strongly to Iran after it launched missiles at U.S. forces stationed at a base in Iraq in 2020, leaving dozens with traumatic brain injuries.
“So first of all, injured. What does injured mean? Injured means — you mean because they had a headache? Because the bombs never hit the fort,” Trump said.
More than 100 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in January 2020 as a result of an Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi base, according to Department of Defense officials.
The missile strike on the Iraqi airbase was in retaliation to Trump ordering the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in early January 2020.