Veterans groups who declined donations from GOP front-runner Donald Trump are now being flooded with nasty messages from the businessman’s supporters online, who want to punish them for challenging their candidate.
In January, Mr. Trump refused to attend a Republican debate hosted by Fox News after the network refused his demand to remove Megyn Kelly as the moderator. Instead, Mr. Trump hosted his own fundraiser to raise money for veterans groups.
But several veterans organizations saw the fundraiser as a political move and refused to accept Mr Trump’s pandering donations.
Paul Rieckhoff, the CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, slammed Mr. 
Trump in a tweet at the time, saying “We need strong policies from candidates, not to be used for political stunts.”
The statement prompted Trump-supporting Internet trolls to bombard Mr. Rieckhoff with hundreds of disparaging and even threatening comments.
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