Posted on 09/04/2020 8:49:49 AM PDT by USA Conservative
What is left quiet in this Atlantic Magazine’s chief editor, J.Goldberg’s hit piece, is that President Trump DID SPEAK at an American Cemetery in France on the centennial of the end of WWI (11 November 2018)! He gave his planned address OUTSIDE at the Suresnes American Cemetery, located in the Paris suburbs, 30 minutes from the US Embassy in Paris. This cemetery is the final rest for 1,541 WW1 US Military.
The planned 45 minute chopper flight to the famous Aisne-Marne American Cemetery would have been about 97 minutes by motorcade and involved EXTENSIVE road blockage and French Gendarme (police) assistance at a short notice. The original point of THIS cemetery visit is that this is where many of the USMC Belleau Wood dead are buried in those 2,289 graves.
AND to add context to the dangers that a Presidential motorcade might face, the multisite Isis suicide attack in Paris that killed 131 occurred just 3 years prior (November 2015) and there had been 4 vehicle ramming attacks in France prior to Trump’s visit. This makes the US Secret Service very unhappy at long duration motor trips with the First Couple!
So, in short, Mr Goldberg is shameless and this piece is a hit piece!
Hahaha...the way you wrote that...seemed Monty Pythonish to me:
Shot down, burned up, crash landed, ejected from, and destroyed five US Navy planes...then sank into the swamp! But the sixth one...stayed up!
LOL, I actually helped him into one of those planes that stayed up...:)
Really!
Note that they supported the funeral, and flew flags at half-mast, and brought the body in.
Trump didn’t like McCain, but he did everything required to honor McCain and his service to our country.
I can imagine he was complaining to people about having to do it though.
I agree, although admittedly, it took me a long time to come to that (but I did, before he showed his character with the dossier)
No doubt. I see that completely.
PLus, as Bolton pointed out, it isn’t just “security”. It’s that, if a national emergency came up, the President would be a 90-minute drive away, which is too long.
The same people who have said “Well it was just a little rain they could have still flown” yeah tell that to Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and 7 others who were killed in a helicopter crash due to FOG, just a little fog cost them their lives
First segment on Limbaugh’s talk show today
First segment on Limbaugh’s talk show today
Bolton’s quoted as saying today that just because he didn’t hear Trump say it that doesn’t mean he didn’t say it to someone else. He’s doing his best to imply the Atlantic article could be true.
Losing is one thing. Sucking is another.
The roads in that part of France are narrow and winding. Good call not to operate the beast on them.
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