Posted on 09/04/2020 2:22:43 PM PDT by rintintin
Mary Louise Kelly @NPRKelly Fox News now confirming @JeffreyGoldberg reporting in @TheAtlantic -->> Quote Tweet
Jacqui Heinrich @JacquiHeinrich · 1h NEW, @JenGriffinFNC confirms former Trump admin official confirms details in The Atlantic story, including quotes about veterans. When the President spoke about the Vietnam War he said, “It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker.” Show this thread
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Don’t forget Rangers and Delta in Mogadishu.
Ughhh...it’s one thing to lose your hair but when all is said and done, who would keep it that way? Never mind, stupid question.
Gulf of Tonkin was Johnson and the CIA. It is their war.
easy care!
I’m 31 years retired military, just retired in 2018. No, I do not believe this news for a second. His comments on McCain were due to the spat, this, however, would never come from his mouth. His entire life he has been a pro-military guy.
To All:
Sean (Shawn?) Parnell was just on Fox News, and said that he was running for Congress because he got a call from his mother, who told him that she’d heard Trump say on national TV that he wanted Parnell to run for iffice.
Parnell said he’d never met Trump before he got his mom’s call, and only recently met Trump, but sees him the best supporter of the military to ever have held the office of President.
Parnell’s defense of Trump was really POWERFUL, and now I REALLY hope Parnell gets elected to Congress!
Amen!! He loves this country and he loves our military.
On the other hand, mccain did not love this country ... not like he should have.. and he was so against Trump...
LOL, now all they’ve done is get people to talk about who was really responsible for the Vietnam War.
mccain had a reputation in AZ that he used every dirty trick and pressure against anyone who tried to run against him in AZ.. mcain was not liked by many. Trump knew about him even before he ran.. I’m sure.. and look what mcain did on his last vote!
Not to mention what a Stain McCain was!
never heard of Griffin until now.
Jennifer Griffin (Harvard)
In October 1994, Griffin married Greg Myre, a journalist who is NPR’s digital editor for international news and has reported for the Associated Press and The New York Times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Griffin
John Gregory Myre (Yale) is an American journalist and NPR’s digital editor for international news. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press and The New York Times for 20 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Myre
4 Sept: Pentagon Says It Will Close ‘Stars and Stripes,’ But Trump Says It Won’t Happen
By Greg Myre | NPR
The Pentagon ordered the closure of the venerable military newspaper Stars and Stripes on Friday. But hours later, President Trump tweeted that he wouldn’t allow that to happen “under my watch.”
The twists and turns played out as Trump faced a firestorm of criticism for reportedly calling American Marines who died in World War I “losers” and “suckers.” Trump vehemently denied the remarks, though several news organizations have cited sources saying he made the statements in 2018 during a trip to France...
The office of Defense Secretary Mark Esper “decided to discontinue the publication of States and Stripes as a result of the defense-wide review as outlined in the president’s budget request for fiscal year 2021,” the memo said. Trump then tweeted on Friday afternoon...
Since becoming defense secretary, Esper has spoken to the press infrequently. Esper’s uncle, George Esper, was a longtime AP correspondent best known for covering the Vietnam War from its early years to the end of the fighting in 1975.
https://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=909689208
more on Myre:
22 Jan 2020: Loveland Reporter Herald: CSU welcomes former national security adviser Susan Rice and NPR’s Greg Myre
Rice will deliver Founders Day keynote conversation with the political correspondent Feb. 11
As part of its Global Engagement Distinguished Speaker lecture series, Colorado State University will host former national security adviser and past U.N. ambassador Susan Rice next month for a discussion with NPR’s national security correspondent, Greg Myre...
https://www.reporterherald.com/2020/01/22/csu-welcomes-former-national-security-adviser-susan-rice-and-nprs-greg-myre/
12 Feb 2020: Collegian: Susan Rice lectures on family history, lessons from positions
By Noah Pasley
Susan Rice, former ambassador to the U.N., former adviser on the National Security Council and the author of “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For,” hosted a conversation with Greg Myre, the national security correspondent for National Public Radio, Tuesday night at the Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom.
Rice and Myre spoke in detail about her parents...
Rice also shared her story of being the “boogeyman” in the media after sharing “talking points” given to her by the CIA that later turned out to be inaccurate.
“Within days, I was branded a liar, incompetent, untrustworthy: mostly by Republicans in Congress,” Rice said...
Myre wrapped up the discussion by asking Rice what advice she would give to young people as they try to process this “very complicated world.” ...
https://collegian.com/2020/02/category-news-susan-rice-gives-lecture-on-family-history-lessons-form-positions/
1 Jul: NPR: Greg Myre: Russian Bounty Intel Sparks Confusion Over How President Is Briefed
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: ...Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice writes this morning in The New York Times that that doesn’t matter. If she had known, she writes, she would have told the president, and people in any previous administration would have done the same.
So how does the process work? NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre is on the line...
MYRE: Well, from what we’re seeing in some of the reporting is that there were some Taliban members who were captured in a raid about six months ago. And they were interrogated, and a large pile of cash was uncovered. And The New York Times is reporting today that U.S. intelligence found evidence of financial transfers from Russia to a Taliban-linked account. But the U.S. intelligence community is still assessing, and there’s no consensus. And this is a classic problem for the intelligence community. You have to put together a puzzle with missing pieces.
And I spoke about this with Dan Hoffman. He’s a former CIA officer who was the Moscow station chief and also worked in the Middle East...
MYRE: Right. Exactly, Steve. And the CIA seems to be driving this, seems to be the agency that feels most strongly that this Russian bounty program is real, but we’ve seen very unusual development the past couple of days, where the defense secretary, the national security adviser, the director of national intelligence have all issued statements saying they can’t confirm the bounty program, at least at this point. And Trump, as you noted, has said he was never told about the program before it broke in the news, but we are seeing reports that he might have been briefed as early as February...
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885899792/russian-bounty-intel-sparks-confusion-over-how-president-is-briefed
given Griffin seems to insert Vietnam War, it’s fascinating Myre is bringing that war into the story, along with Mike Esper/Stars & Stripes:
Tweet: Greg Myre, NPR national security correspondent - 4h ago
A backstory on Pentagon’s plan to shut down ‘Stars and Stripes.’ Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s uncle was renowned Associated Press correspondent George Esper, who covered the Vietnam War from its early days in 1965 until the bitter end a decade later ….
LINK NPR
(2) George Esper’s tenacity as a reporter was legendary, best illustrated by the final day of the war, April 30, 1975. As the few remaining Americans got on the final helicopters out, George declined the ride and remained in the AP office in Saigon and just kept filing stories…
(3) George Esper stayed until the North Vietnamese troops came knocking on his door, cut of the electricity, and told him it was time to go home. George Esper died in 2012 (his obit is below). But not hard to imagine what he would have thought about closing ‘Stars and Stripes.’
(4) George Esper’s obit from 2012:
(DEAD LINK?)
http://ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2012/AP-Vietnam-correspondent-George-Esper-dies-at-79
https://twitter.com/gregmyre1/status/1301992332519190528
3 Feb 2012: WBUR: AP: AP Vietnam Correspondent George Esper Dies At 79
(FULL TEXT)
This program aired on February 3, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2012/02/03/george-esper-obit
Even if it is true, It would not bother me in the least because it was a stupid war.
Griffen is highly intelligent, but can also be mean as a snake. She enjoys gossiping and making fun of others behind their back.
Yes, I got the impression that she was a very nasty person. The fun thing about that is she will eventually be exposed.
Are we sure that wasn’t Michelle. Sure sounds like Michelle when she’s watching her words better.
No offense, but it was my take that those who served in
Vietnam were not graced with the full cooperation of the
federal government in winning. So I always respected
the people who went there and fought, but I also considered
them to be abused to some extent.
If this comment was made by Trump, it’s an inarticulate
version of what I just laid out.
Nobody could support the military more than he does.
More smoke and mirrors...
At least Trump doesn’t think the Vietnam Service folks were
treated right. That’s an improvement.
p
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