Posted on 10/23/2024 7:48:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A family attorney and the sister of slain Texas soldier Vanessa Guillen both dismissed a report in the Atlantic on Tuesday alleging that former President Donald Trump refused to pay for the Army specialist’s funeral and disparaged her ethnicity.
The piece, written by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, claims Trump fumed about a $60,000 bill he received from Guillen’s family for her funeral during a December 2020 Oval Office meeting — allegedly telling aides, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f–king Mexican.”
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Mayra Guillen, Vanessa’s sister, slammed the Atlantic report as “hurtful & disrespectful,” and indicated that the former president treated her family with “respect” in the aftermath of her sister’s brutal killing.
“President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa,” she added. “In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”
... The Atlantic did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
In 2020, Goldberg reported that Trump referred to dead US troops as “suckers” and “losers” on the morning of a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018.
Trump denied that report.
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It was funny BUT also satire (not true!).
If a so-called “reporter” states things which can be proven to be false/untrue then Summary-Death-By-Kicks-To-The-Groin should be on the prosecutor’s agenda.
Goldberg....all you need to know.
Jeffrey Goldberg is Israeli-American.
He should know better to support the jihad-friendly kamala over the pro-israel Trump! But he takes orders from his boss Lauren Powell Jobs!
Disagree. And worth a shot. The publication deliberately makes the families look like clueless losers who couldn't see that a mean old politician was using them.
The problem for the publication is that their statements were untruthful. So if they damaged or insulted the families and the memory of their fallen sons in front of hundreds of millions of Americans by making false claims, they're responsible for that.
They're in the news business, so they're held to a higher standard. It's their business—–their only business—-to be accurate in return for their First Amendment armor. In fact, their work is is supposed to be "in the public interest."
A "reckless disregard for the truth" claim against the journos--that they were motivated to be untruthful by their obvious animus against Trump--could have legs.
He also should remember that the 10 commandments were given to the Israelites by God himself at Mt Sinai.
Commandment #9 says that You Shall Not bear false witness against your neighbor.
This includes anyone whom that person who gives a false witness report of the person slandered.
False witness is a nice way of saying don’t make up lies against your neighbor to make him/her out to be a liar and a criminal.
God takes a very dim view of that.
You’d think that as an Israelite he’d know that.
These commandments are meant for Christians, too!
The ATLANTIC, JUST LIARS AND COMMUNIST LOSERS.
For the first more than 100 years of its existence, the Atlantic was a wonderful publication, publishing pillars of American literature like John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Hemingway and others. Although its Wikipedia page has suppressed telling about it, the Atlantic's most famous story of the 1990s was “Dan Quayle Was Right” by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, an award-winning journalist and defender of marriage as a beneficial institution for men, women and especially children. All that has changed since the Atlantic's hard left turn in this century, with Steve Jobs' widow's billions underwriting its decline into banal limousine-commie political griping.
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