The President of the Un iced States of America actually said that it’s reported and di not want to go and pay his respects to them for their survive…..And wanted nothing to do with wounded veterans either…His anger at the tributes for Senator John McCain has been reported…..
Donald J. Trump….
The President of the United States of America and the Commander-in Chief of the countries Military…
What do you say?
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed….
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There was no precedent in American politics for the expression of this sort of contempt, but the performatively patriotic Trump did no damage to his candidacy by attacking McCain in this manner. Nor did he set his campaign back by attacking the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Trump remained fixated on McCain, one of the few prominent Republicans to continue criticizing him after he won the nomination. When McCain died, in August 2018, Trump told his senior staff, according to three sources with direct knowledge of this event, “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” and he became furious, according to witnesses, when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. “What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser,” the president told aides.
image…Donald Trump greets families of the fallen at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2017.Chip Somodevilla / Getty
Jared Rizzi Retweeted
Jon Passantino
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Fox confirming Trump’s comments about military vets is significant after the network spent the morning blasting the reporting
Jennifer Griffin
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Two former sr Trump admin officials confirm .
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reporting that President Trump disparaged veterans and did not want to drive to honor American war dead at Aisne-Marne Cemetery outside Paris.
Jennifer Griffin
@JenGriffinFNC
This former official heard the President say about American veterans: “What’s in it for them? They don’t make any money.” Source: “It was a character flaw of the President. He could not understand why someone would die for their country, not worth it.”
Trump’s weak counter…
President Donald Trump and his aides scrambled Friday to contain the fallout from reports that he made denigrating remarks about U.S. service members and America’s war dead, as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden went on the offensive against a newly embattled White House.
Addressing reporters in the Oval Office, Trump again attacked The Atlantic for its account of him allegedly calling fallen Marines “losers” and “suckers,” and sought to defuse the escalating controversy….
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On Friday, however, it was Trump who found himself playing defense, having to explain his support for the military less than two months from an election in which he will rely on a political base of voters made up of a disproportionately high percentage of veterans.
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In a sign of Trump’s recognition of the damage inflicted by The Atlantic’s report, he later tweeted that he would reverse an order by the Defense Department to cease publication of the military’s independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes…
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Stars and Stripes
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A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump allegedly making disparaging remarks about U.S. military members who have been captured or killed.
Report claims Trump disparaged US war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’
Trump emphatically denied the report Thursday night, calling it “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.”
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Fox News comes to the defense of one of their own who backed up the Atlantic story of Trump dissing American soldiers and tributes to their service and giving their lives….
…In this case, it was the Atlantic’s blockbuster report that President Trump had made disparaging remarks about veterans. Griffin, a national security correspondent for Fox News, found sources to validate key aspects of the story, sharing her reporting on Twitter and on anchor Bret Baier’s news show.
Other beat reporters had confirmed aspects of the Atlantic story, too. But the fact that Griffin works for Fox, whose opinion hosts and corporate owners are seen as reliable supporters and defenders of the president, turned her revelations into a watershed development. It led to Trump’s call for her firing late Friday on Twitter — and an impassioned pushback from Fox News colleagues defending her journalistic honor….
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CG is certainly not being shy about his reaction:
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/
Excellent piece…..