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CNN’s Acosta Questions if Trump Is ‘Politicizing’ Soldiers Deaths by Visiting Arlington
Breitbart ^ | 08/26/2024 | Pam Key

Posted on 08/26/2024 8:58:14 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

CNN host Jim Acosta asked Monday on “Newsroom” if former President Donald Trump should be at Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath to mark the third anniversary of the attack on Abbey Gate.

Acosta said, “Former President Trump was at Arlington National Cemetery, where he marked the three-year anniversary of the bombing that killed 13 service members during the Afghanistan withdrawal. This is someone who, according to his own former chief of staff, said Americans who died in war are, ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ Trump denies that, although John Kelly confirms that Trump did say that. He more recently said a civilian award is, ‘better than the Medal of Honor.’ You’re a former Army Ranger. Is he politicizing these soldiers’ deaths? Should even be at Arlington National Cemetery if he’s going to make some politics out of this?”

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) said, “Well, I also mourn the death of those 13 service members. Every death of a service member is a tragedy. At the same time, I mourn the deaths of the over 2,400 service members who died during the 20 years we were at war. And I just look at President Biden, under whose leadership we actually ended, and made the tough decision to end our nation’s longest war. It became very clear to me years ago that this war was not winnable through military means. Sitting here today, we are honoring the death of those who died in service to our country. And at the same time, we are not at war in Afghanistan. And that was the right decision by President Biden.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acosta; afghanistan; arlington; cnnsedition; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; politiczing; projection; soliders; trump
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To: Fury

Being born in D.C. makes me hate him even more. A child of government bureaucrats? Or a refugee anchor baby whose sperm and egg donors wanted to stay close to the U.S. Treasury?


41 posted on 08/26/2024 10:06:24 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! A vote for the Voo Doo Hoo Doo and Timmy is a vote for another four years of Kenyan BS.)
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To: HYPOCRACY
I never heard of Jim Acosta before Trump became President. Then he was on TV all the time.

According to Wikipedia, his father came to the US from Cuba when he was 11 years old. His mother is of Irish and Czech ancestry. That explains why he's such a wild and crazy guy.

The Acosta surname can be either Spanish or Portuguese.

42 posted on 08/26/2024 10:19:19 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Regulator

Actually, the name originally comes from the Portuguese, for what it’s worth...


43 posted on 08/26/2024 10:20:32 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A lie repeated enough becomes the truth.

Even snopes can't verify that he said that.

44 posted on 08/26/2024 10:20:36 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Regulator

And?

What’s your point?

I thought so.

Good grief.


45 posted on 08/26/2024 10:27:29 AM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I recently saw a very thought provoking interview with Todd Rose, the author of ‘Collective Illusions’:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-why-shouldnt-we-all-just-get-along

(It’s interesting that the Left, which in my youth valued non-conformity, is now all in for conformity...)


46 posted on 08/26/2024 10:29:40 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s just repeating a lie from a liar, as if it was the truth.


47 posted on 08/26/2024 10:38:42 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: HombreSecreto
Dems call themselves compassionate but they have the faked compassion of narcissists.

Bravo!

48 posted on 08/26/2024 10:45:01 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You’re correct, the media blatantly lied about it.


49 posted on 08/26/2024 10:46:15 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: GSWarrior

“his is someone who, according to his own former chief of staff, said Americans who died in war are, ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’ Trump denies that, although John Kelly confirms that Trump did say that.”
John Kelley’s only “statement” on this issue is in a book he wroe where he said “Trump is someone who called soldiers suckers and losers” or something to that effect. He NEVER stated that he personally heard Trump say this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543
This article relies on the fake Jeffrey Goldberg Atlantic article which NAMED NO SOURCES.
Kelly just refers to Trump as though the Atlantic article was TRUE, instead of saying “Trump said soldiers are “suckers and losers”.

“”A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them,’” Kelly said of Trump. “A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family — for all Gold Star families — on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.”
2020: Trump responds to accusations he called dead American soldiers ‘losers’
06:41”
On that basis Biden is a pedophile and Harris is a whore because I read on the internet that someone else said that.
And the amazing thing is that Kelly says Trump “wouldn’t visit their graves in France”. Trump was in France when he supposedly said this. So why did he travel 3,000 miles to France on the 75 Anniversay of D-Day? For a F**cking croissant? Or to honor the dead??? WHY WAS HE IN FRANCE????


50 posted on 08/26/2024 10:54:58 AM PDT by brookwood (The root cause of illegal immigration- the US is rich and gives away benefits, other countries don't)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Trump was accused of calling fallen U.S. soldiers "suckers and losers"...We examined the evidence

Excerpt from article: "Referring to Gen. John Kelly who was with Trump during the trip as his Chief of Staff, he said: 'I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather.' Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?"

John Bolton who was also on the trip said "it was false."

Mike Pompeo was on the trip as well, and said he was with the President most of the trip and "never heard him use the words" attributed to him.

51 posted on 08/26/2024 10:59:19 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It was the Biden Administration that started the rumor again via Twitter in 2023 knowing that Trump would be the only viable Presidential opponent at that time.


52 posted on 08/26/2024 11:01:26 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

“Yuri called it.

Today people believe men can be women and women can be men.”

Yes, today people are destructively delusional and being led to believe they can be anything they “identify” as or anything that they “manifest”. Led to believe lies by the Marxist Democrats and globalists, who are being driven by Satan. It’s all to harm and/or destroy humanity... to get back at God.


53 posted on 08/26/2024 11:03:34 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They are AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE.

YOU SHOULDNT WATCH THIS DEMOCRAT LYING LEFT WING CRAP.


54 posted on 08/26/2024 11:15:31 AM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-in)
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To: Fury

Nice little conversation with yourself.

Think about it.


55 posted on 08/26/2024 11:31:23 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Jamestown1630

Well...they’re just West Spain, right?

With a somewhat more mellifluous dialect of Latin...


56 posted on 08/26/2024 11:33:05 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

I doubt they’d appreciate that - they’re rather proud of their own history.


57 posted on 08/26/2024 11:47:07 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Not sure that Brazil should be considered a great achievement.

But then there’s always Astrud Gilberto. They did have that.


58 posted on 08/26/2024 11:54:46 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good to know Acosta is against Politizing the news. /s


59 posted on 08/26/2024 12:10:06 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: Regulator

Whatever!


60 posted on 08/26/2024 12:17:00 PM PDT by Fury (I )
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