Posted on 09/07/2020 3:11:18 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
On Sunday, Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg admitted the White House’s account that President Trump’s trip to a cemetery of fallen World War I soldiers in France in 2018 was modified due to bad weather is probably accurate.
“I’m sure all of those things are true,” Goldberg told CNN in an interview on Friday when asked to respond to evidence a story he published saying otherwise is false.
In the story published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Goldberg asserted that multiple senior White House staffers heard President Trump express a desire to cancel his visit to the cemetery because “It’s filled with losers.”
“When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed the rain for the last-minute decision, saying ‘the helicopter couldn’t fly’ and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true. Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead,” Goldberg wrote, citing only anonymous sources.
Despite conceding that the cancellation due to weather might be true, Goldberg stood by his story about President Trump’s trip to the cemetery, claiming that “the public’s interest in meeting this information outweigh the ambiguities or the difficulties of anonymous sourcing” and that he will “be continuing to make that effort to move this material directly onto the record.”
While others have claimed to “confirm” the report with more anonymous sources, The Atlantic has published false stories before, which raises more questions about the legitimacy of a report given by unknown people.
President Trump denied the claims by Goldberg and his anonymous sources, saying that other people on the trip such as the Secret Service and Gen. Keith Kellogg can “refute” the allegations.
“I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more. So I just think it’s a horrible, horrible thing,” he told reporters as he deplaned from Air Force One. “We made a great evening into, frankly, a very sad evening, when I see a statement like that. No animal, nobody — what animal would say such a thing?”
The White House also denounced the piece in The Atlantic, calling it “patently false” and “offensive fiction.”
“This report is patently false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard. He’s demonstrated his commitment to them at every turn: delivering on his promise to give our troops a much-needed pay raise, increasing military spending, signing critical veterans reforms, and supporting military spouses. These nameless anecdotes have no basis in fact and are offensive fiction,” said White House strategic communications director Alyssa Farah.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s book, released earlier in the year to criticize Trump, corroborated the White House account that the trip to the cemetery was canceled for the president’s safety over bad weather and response time if the need to leave France unexpectedly arose.
“Marine One’s crew was saying that bad visibility could make it imprudent to chopper to the cemetery. The ceiling was not too low for Marines to fly in combat, but flying POTUS was obviously something very different. If a motorcade was necessary, it could take between ninety and a hundred and twenty minutes each way, along roads that were not exactly freeways, posing an unacceptable risk that we could not get the President out of France quickly enough in case of an emergency,” Bolton wrote.
“It was a straightforward decision to cancel the visit but very hard for a Marine like Kelly to recommend, having originally been the one to suggest Belleau Wood… Trump agreed, and it was decided that others would drive to the cemetery instead.”
Despite claims by CNN that the alleged conversation about the cancellation could’ve occurred after Bolton left, Bolton confirmed the account from his book in an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, saying he had never heard President Trump disparage fallen soldiers.
“I didn’t hear that,” Bolton told The New York Times. “I’m not saying he didn’t say them later in the day or another time, but I was there for that discussion.”
This is a total defeat of the MSM not only aren't people listening to them they are having deal with push back they've never had to before.
If the MSM says believe the opposite. People are catching on this story is going come back to haunt them.
Refocus on Pelosi tie her to Biden - that seemed to cause them to pull out all stops.
The president should demand Pelosi resign get Joe to start defending her.
Yep, the idea is planted and the ads will continue
Anonymous sources have confirmed that anonymously they have heard that Jeffrey Goldberg eats babies alive. Reports are that he especially likes the livers and kidneys.
It must be true because it’s anonymous confidential accurate sources and it’s on the internet.
And it will continue, because there are no repercussions to doing it.
Goldberg, another lying sack of sh!t neo-con-artist and 0bama butt kisser.
Actually, the opposite may be true. The story had a shelf life equal to a Box of Donuts at a fundraiser held for Jerrold Nadler at Michael Moore's Mansion. Now that they caved on part of the Slander the rest of it will crumble, proving to the "undecided" that POTUS Trump's claims of Fake News and its Bias against him are true. Remember how Leftist's always claim a consensus means truth? Well, so far POTUS Trump has ten (if not more)People who were with him in Paris claiming that the Story is 100% false. Goldberg the lying slanderer only has four so called anonymous sources saying otherwise, and that was before he just backpedaled. Last time I checked, 2/3rds over 1/3rd means there is a consensus.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
Props to Bolton on this one, but where is that sweetheart chia pet head Jenny Griffen?
>>>Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people<<<
The Legal Voters or the Illegal Voters?
We will find out on November 3rd, or 4th, or 5th, or 6th or sometime in January.
The DEMONcRATS will be needing some Mafia sized three body Car Trunks to hold all the “harvested” Ballots I’m sure.
This whole thing was ‘vetted’ in 2018.
Is that all the Dems/Media have — recycling old crapola?
How long before they ‘find’ a Stormy II?
Joe Biden held a Labor Day Event in Lancaster, PA. pic.twitter.com/LDhvhfaLmF— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) September 7, 2020
She didn't publish the story, although she confirmed two of her sources said some of the same crap to her. It's the sources that may be the problem.
Why would they fire him? He’s a circulation booster, for sure, for this magazine that was once (YEARS ago) at least interesting and published well-researched pieces, but is now the equivalent of a National Enquirer knock-off,specializing in “politics”. I haven’t been to a bookstore in a long time, for obvious reasons, so I haven’t seen or noticed if this is still an actual print magazine. Hard to believe a story with this meager a “theme” would even make it into print. Maybe online? And the Pentagon dyke? You probably mean Jennifer Griffin-—no, not into the waste bin-—in fact, owing to the perversity that has taken over FOX news, she’s getting MORE face time, just like Goldberg of the Atlantic.
True but she sure as hell didn’t have to amplify and spread the story. Let the other democrats do it. She added credibility to a bull shit story. Nasty.
Dan Rather, the inventor of “Fake But Accurate” just felt a chill go down his leg.
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And?
Ping to Atlantic Cave.
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