On Thursday, The Atlantic published an article, citing four anonymous sources who claim that in 2018, President Trump called fallen soldiers buried at France’s Aisne-Marne American cemetery “suckers” and that the grounds were “filled with losers,” and “blamed rain” for canceling a planned visit to the site.
The report has been vehemently refuted by Trump administration officials, and is already beginning to unravel.
On that Atlantic Story – @JeffreyGoldberg and his “four sources” claim Trump’s helicopter flight to the US/French cemetery wasn’t cancelled due to weather.
FOIA docs prove this to be false.
Their “sources” are failing basic fact checks – making them essentially worthless. pic.twitter.com/wAa7FrSxoW
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) September 4, 2020
John Bolton, no fan of the president: https://t.co/u5gUgfXWaH
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) September 4, 2020
The Atlantic‘s EIC, Jeffrey Goldberg, said the sources wanted to remain anonymous because “They don’t want to be inundated with angry tweets and all the rest.”
Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg explains why he used unnamed sources in report about Trump insulting dead soldiers:
“They don’t want to be inundated with angry tweets and all the rest…”https://t.co/s2ESFCOMi0 — from @MikeBrestDC at @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/IAANsJuIgH
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) September 4, 2020
Perhaps even more interesting is an anti-Trump ad from ‘VoteVets’ based on the Atlantic article which cropped up a mere 12 hours later, raising questions over whether this was a coordinated hit…
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