{"id":46562,"date":"2020-09-04T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T23:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46562"},"modified":"2020-09-05T02:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T09:31:24","slug":"uh-oh-fox-news-confirms-that-trump-called-fallen-soldiers-losers-and-suckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46562","title":{"rendered":"UH-OH: Fox News Confirms that Trump Called Fallen Soldiers Losers and Suckers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic’s recent story<\/a><\/strong> exposing Donald Trump’s nauseating remarks about America’s war dead and POWs has been dominating the news cycle this week. That’s remarkable considering that there is also a presidential election in progress and a deadly pandemic is killing more than a 1,000 people a day.<\/p>\n

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The article reported Trump complaining about visiting a cemetery in France where Americans soldiers were laid to rest. “Why should I go to that cemetery?”<\/em> Trump whined. “It\u2019s filled with losers.”<\/em> He later added that 1,800 plus marines who died at Belleau Wood were “suckers”<\/em> for getting killed. The article also revealed that Trump was opposed to, and angered by, tributes to the late Sen. John McCain saying \u201cWhat the f**k are we doing that for? Guy was a f**king loser.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump is predictably denying the story and calling it – wait for it – “fake news.”<\/em> He doesn’t have any documentary evidence to support his denials. He’s just insisting that the four sources cited by the Atlantic are either lying or made up. It’s an absurd and irresponsible accusation to be making about a journalistic enterprise that has for decades been respected and credible. What’s more, the story has been corroborated with unrelated sources by reporters from the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and NBC News. Of course, those are all media organizations that Trump has furiously, and without foundation, dismissed as fake.<\/p>\n

Now, however, Trump is going to have a harder time pretending the liberal media is out to get him. Jennifer Griffin, the National Security Correspondent for Fox News, is the latest reporter to corroborate the Atlantic’s story. She did so in a series of tweets beginning here:<\/p>\n

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Two former sr Trump admin officials confirm .@JeffreyGoldberg<\/a> reporting that President Trump disparaged veterans and did not want to drive to honor American war dead at Aisne-Marne Cemetery outside Paris.<\/p>\n

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) September 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n