veterans for a strong america appears to be just joel arends. when donald trump says what he said about mccain's war record, joel arends and his veterans for a strong america put 8 a statement blaming john mccain for it and saying all the right thing about donald trump. donald trump tonight is doing a fund-raiser for veterans for a strong america. starting his remarks right now. the end of the story about who he's raising money for. stay with us. >> so i got here and they asked a couple of days ago, would it be possible to come over and say a few words an endorsement from your group with so many veterans, hundreds of thousand of veterans i really appreciate that, joel. i did not expect it. i didn't expect it. i didn't ask for it. i will say this, i am with the veterans 100%. they're our greatest people. they're being treated terribly. the not only the number of deaths which are obviously that's tantamount what's going on is incredible. but as of two weeks ago on wednesday, the vets had the longest wait in the history of the veterans administrati

was it joel arends's non-profit or was it joel arends's pac? did they tell you?nswer from the trump campaign, no. we asked them further, how much money did the event raise? the answer from the trump campaign, please ask veterans for a strong america. we asked them further, did they tell you what they would use the money to do? answer, no. but the candidate went out there and did it anyway and said they had hundreds of thousands of members. the presidential campaign so far on the republican side has provided 11 hours of nationally televised debate time. obviously, that affords an opportunity to talk about lots of really big issues. but so far when it comes to america's veterans and a lot of really acute and fascinating issues surrounding the u.s. military and america's veterans, so far it's been crickets. joining us now is my friend paul ryckoff founder and ceo of iraq and afghanistan veterans for america. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. what a week. >> what a weird week. i have to ask you, the vai is obviously the largest organization of post-9/11 veterans.

that lawyer was joel arends who she testified advised her could sign off on petitions even if she didn'titness every single signature on them. >> and joel was my friend, i trusted them. when he said you could sign it, i was sure he knew the rules. >> i have an incredibly humiliating experience for my family and i have the loss of my medical license. and what happened to joel? from the moment he knew that there was trouble, he went out and did a fundraiser for my opponent. i mean really? >> the jury didn't buy it. dr. annette bosworth lost in the primary, was convicted of election fraud and was convicted of perjury. her lawyer, she says, didn't miss a beat. >> please help me welcome mr. donald j. trump! >> do you know where the money went? >> he could have brought in $850,000 by our calculations. we just don't know where the money is the group doesn't have a good track record. >> does it go to a charity? >> it's not a charity. as far as we can tell it's a political action group. just about an hour ago, in fact, we received this statement from the group saying they are advocates for improv

joel arends worked with on her u.s. senate campaign in south dakota last year, his client in that campaign just last year was later convicted on 12 election-related felonies. she says on the basis of advice given to her specifically by donald trump's new friend on the battleship. further googling might have turned out that his new friend was also involved in the arizona governor's election last year in a way that has him under investigation by two different parts of arizona state government including a referral for investigation to the state attorney general. further googling by donald trump and his campaign might have next turned up this rather lurid story of donald trump's new friend on the battleship being part of a super pac scam operation that apparently relieved some naive old guy in texas of several million dollars of his own money. pro-publica calling it an egregious example of what can happen when people running super pacs use super pac contributions to basically hire themselves. further googling might have rev

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