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## Video: Veteran Gives Trump A "Real" Purple Heart

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_Published 2016-08-02. Before his rally in Ashburn, Va., Trump said a veteran gave him his “real” Purple Heart (although a reporter at the event said the man told her it was a copy)._


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## Transcript

Something very nice just happened to me. A man came up to me, and he handed me his purple heart. [ SOUND ] Now I said to him, [ APPLAUSE ] Is that like the real one, or is that a copy? [ LAUGH ] And he said, that's my real purple heart. I have such confidence in you, and I said, man that's big stuff. I always wanted to get the purple heart, this was much easier. But I tell it was such an honor and maybe I can bring him up on the stage, Lieutenant Colonel Louis Dorfman, I just happen. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [ NOISE ] [ APPLAUSE ] So, I said Lieutenant Coronel, would you like to say something?

He goes, no sir. I'd like you to just keep saying what you've been saying.

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