Posted on 09/06/2020 5:26:31 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Veteran Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie has joined a long list of officials in blasting a recent report in the Atlantic that claimed Trump has repeatedly made disparaging remarks about the US war dead, calling them ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’.
The rebuttals come as the article’s author, and the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, has defended his decision to keep his sources anonymous and says he expects 'more information' to come out in the coming days to corroborate his story about Trump’s remarks. These are not people who are anonymous to me,’ Goldberg told CNN. ‘We all have to use anonymous sources especially in a climate in which the president of the United States tries to actively intimidate journalism organizations and people who provide information to journalism organizations.’
Wilkie discredited the claims to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, saying the president described in the report by anonymous sources does not reflect the Donald Trump he knows. ‘I would be offended, too, if I thought it was true,’ Wilkie said. ‘I am very proud that this president has led to a renaissance in veterans affairs.' The report, published by the Atlantic Thursday, and credits four separate military sources, claims that Trump cancelled a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in November 2018 because he was worried his hair would be disheveled by the rain. In a conversation with senior staff before the planned visit, Trump reportedly asked aides: 'Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.' During the same trip, the president allegedly later referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives in the Battle of Belleau Wood in France as 'suckers' for getting killed.
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More anonymous sources?
Extraordinary Rendition, Club Gitmo, Water board and Videocamera
Waterboard them.
Lets sue them in civil court for 100 million. Then the names will come out or they’re down $100M.
They are not anonymous to you because they are all in your head, right Jeff?? /s
Atlantic and Daily Mail have been doing a two-step in releasing inflammatory stories to hurt Trump
Gossip is not information.
They will find some a-hole to say he did say it.
The left must be desperate.
They have lied so much no one believes them anymore. What is the “Atlantic” anyway? I thought they went totally digital years ago.
Put up or shut up.
And then =pitchforks and tar....
Its a non-story.
This is the Dan Rather play all over again... the anonymous witnesses don’t exist... but what they say is true!
Its a non-story.
And why doesn’t Trump sue them?
Hanoi Jane, Ketchup King Kerry and the Ghost of John McCain?
His imaginary sources are so very real to him.
My wife and I are caring for an aunt who never married and has no children. She has Lewy Body Dementia.
Her hallucinations are very real to her as well. They do not in-fact exist but, they are so very real to her she swears by them. Insisting that they are real and really happened.
bump
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