{"id":3433007,"date":"2026-01-10T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=3433007"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:18:52","slug":"ventura-calls-trump-draft-dodging-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2026\/01\/ventura-calls-trump-draft-dodging-coward\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura Calls Trump 'Draft-Dodging Coward'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked about the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Jesse Ventura\u2014a former Minnesota governor and Navy SEAL\u2014called her death \u00ab\u00a0murder\u00a0\u00bb and included.<\/b>
\nAsked about the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Jesse Ventura\u2014a former Minnesota governor and Navy SEAL\u2014called her death \u00ab\u00a0murder\u00a0\u00bb and included President Trump in his criticism. The shooting Wednesday \u00ab\u00a0did not have to happen\u00a0\u00bb, Ventura said, USA Today reports. The president has said the ICE agent \u00ab\u00a0seems to have shot her in self defense\u00a0\u00bb, per the Hill. Speaking to reporters, Ventura contrasted Trump’s Vietnam-era student deferments and medical exemption with his own 17 months in Southeast Asia. Trump is a \u00ab\u00a0draft-dodging coward who, when it was his time to serve his country, he did what all rich white boys did. I wasn’t a rich white boy. We had to go\u00a0\u00bb, Ventura said. \u00ab\u00a0He’s gonna tell me what courage is?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Ventura, 74, denounced the use of the military against US citizens: \u00ab\u00a0We’re a third-world country now.\u00a0\u00bb He said Republicans in office are disregarding constitutional protections, saying, \u00ab\u00a0Freedom is not arresting people without warrants.\u00a0\u00bb His time overseas, Ventura said, shaped his views, per the Hill. \u00ab\u00a0I was in the Philippines the day [former Philippines President] Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and went under dictatorship. We went from nobody to a guy with a machine gun on every corner\u00a0\u00bb, Ventura added. \u00ab\u00a0That’s what happens in a dictatorship.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Ventura once belonged to his state’s Reform Party but later went independent. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced this week that he won’t seek reelection, and Ventura, who held the office from 1999 to 2003, acted like that gave him an idea, per USA Today. \u00ab\u00a0Maybe it’s time for Jesse\u00a0\u00bb, he said. \u00ab\u00a0I only did one term. I’m owed a second.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n