Posted on 09/07/2020 1:54:22 PM PDT by abb
U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco Jamie McCourt told Breitbart News exclusively on Monday that the Atlantic story about President Donald Trump allegedly bashing troops is untrue.
Ambassador McCourt was there the day President Trump’s team called off the trip to the cemetery at Belleau Wood because of inclement weather. She is the latest U.S. official who was actually present at the event to publicly deny the Atlantic’s account of events, which is based entirely on anonymous sources.
“Needless to say, I never spoke to the Atlantic, and I can’t imagine who would,” McCourt told Breitbart News. “In my presence, POTUS has NEVER denigrated any member of the U.S. military or anyone in service to our country. And he certainly did not that day, either. Let me add, he was devastated to not be able to go to the cemetery at Belleau Wood. In fact, the next day, he attended and spoke at the ceremony in Suresnes in the pouring rain.”
McCourt’s denial regarding the Atlantic comes after former White House deputy chief of staff Zach Fuentes, a top confidante of former chief of staff John Kelly, denied the story earlier on Monday in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News.
In addition to Fuentes, former National Security adviser John Bolton has denied the account—as has every other person who could have witnessed the president saying this: officials who were there, from former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to senior adviser Stephen Miller to advisers such as Jordan Karem and Derek Lyons. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was traveling with the president there, has also denied the report. In addition, first lady Melania Trump has denied the report and called the Atlantic article fake news.
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Write Fox. I did to express my disappointment that they don’t believe in journalism but gossip-mongering.
I would think they could figure out who the anonymous people are. After all, they know exactly who was present, and who has gone on record to say it didn’t happen. So that leaves the people who haven’t gone on record. How many can that be?
Put together a list of everyone who was there, and ask each of them.
Remember, the story has NOT been confirmed. They have only confirmed that some people say it did happen.
Ask yourself this question, if some people were so outraged, why did they wait two years, and accuse Trump just two months before election? doesn’t pass the smell test.
So FOX NEWS, when are you going to FIRE BAIRER AND BITCH GRIFFIN??
I smell a mccain in the wood pile...
Meghan is that you?
This solder tell the media to put a sock in the lies:
COL (R) Stephen Mitchell @ColSDM
Give this veteran a voice as he debunks #FakeNews #EnemyOfThePeople
https://twitter.com/ColSDM/status/1303040956841762818
#TrumpLovesTheMilitary #TrumpLovesOurVeterans #VeteransForTrump
Maybe Captain Sully better issue a new statement. But he was paid for his bullshit.
Did Baier say he heard the President say those words????
The TRUTH of the issue doesn’t really matter...
It’s the SERIOUSNESS of the charge, right?
You know I don’t think anyone said it to The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg. Mr. Goldberg did a couple of articles on Mattis in October 29, 2019 and they talked about Trump well Goldberg who hates Trump only asked about Trump. I think he may have taken stuff from that article and just made it up. Jeffrey Goldberg in the article say he has been friends with Mattis for many many years.
My sister is a die-hard Dem, who lives in Wisconsin, and I bet she’ll believe it, no matter what evidence to the contrary she sees.
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Does a person like that really matter? They’re never going to change their mind.
I am SOOOOO sick of Media Lies.
Lets Vote. Then lets kick the crap out of the freaks who intend to destroy the nation.
This treachery MUST END.
It is the three days of lying and discussing the lie on the media and thus getting hundreds of articles about it on the internet, ready to pop up with any search. The truth will come out, though there will be no retractions or apologies, but too late for the uninformed.
“ Baier and Griffin have both lost their popularity edge at Fox News and are attempting to recover their position. But making false reports without solid evident about President Trump will never cut it. They are finished.”
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They’ve forgot who’s their base.
F€CK’EM....
Jedidiah Bila ALSO believed this crap....so did that new Cain kid on weekend fx & Friends!!!!! DISGUSTING!!
Stupid question....Is Frank McCourt the guy who wrote Angela’s Ashes????
The whole point was to get the narrative into the media so they'd ask Biden & Harris about it and create a false perception that distorted reality in their favor.
No one would've sat on this for 2 years. The idea the "four sources" wanted to be "anonymous" because they feared angry tweets is ludicrous!
That’s exactly the strategy here.
“Stupid question....Is Frank McCourt the guy who wrote Angela’s Ashes????”
Nope. Jamie McCourt’s ex-husband Frank is a real estate developer from Boston who managed to financially wreck the Dodger franchise despite record attendance.
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Except that they are known liars who do nothing but lie and so we can from this day forth presume that anything they say is a lie unless they declare treason in which case we can just hang them.
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