Trump says he would rehire military members fired over vaccine mandate with back pay

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Former President Donald Trump vowed, if elected come November, to rehire military service members who were let go for rejecting the COVID-19 vaccination and promised they would receive an apology with back pay.

“Kamala [Harris] and Crooked Joe purged 8,000 service members from our military for refusing their COVID vaccine mandate. They refused to do it,” Trump said at an Asheboro, North Carolina, rally on Wednesday.

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