Here's the problem for Donald Trump with the Atlantic story

[babylonsister]

Here's the problem for Donald Trump with the Atlantic story
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 5:00 PM ET, Fri September 4, 2020

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Jeffrey Goldberg, who authored The Atlantic piece, stood by his reporting in an appearance on CNN's "New Day" Friday morning.

"I stand by my reporting," he said. "I have multiple sources telling me this is what happened, and so I stand by it."

So, we're left with this dilemma: Goldberg insists the story is true. Trump insists the story is false. Both of those views can't be right.

Now, I am not in a position to litigate who is right here. And CNN has not independently verified The Atlantic's reporting. But Trump's insistence that he would never say anything disparaging about a military veteran or the military more generally is belied by, well, facts.

In 2015, shortly after he had officially entered the 2016 Republican presidential race, Trump said this of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain: "He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." McCain was shot down and kept captive by the North Vietnamese for more than five years. The wounds he suffered as a result of the torture he endured during his captivity left him unable to raise his arms over his head -- among other maladies -- for the rest of his life.

In the wake of Gold Star father Khizr Khan's speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 -- in which Khan suggested Trump had never sacrificed anything in life -- the billionaire businessman suggested that Hillary Clinton's speechwriters had actually written the speech and that Khan's wife, who stood silently by her husband, was not allowed to speak. As for Khan's claim that Trump had never sacrificed, the Republican nominee responded this way: "I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures."

Following the death of US Army Sgt. La David Johnson in Niger in 2017, the slain soldier's wife (and a Florida Democratic congresswoman) said that Trump had told her on a phone call that her husband "knew what he had signed up for." Trump denied the claim.

and, of course, more...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/donald-trump-military-the-atlantic-story/index.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. Don't forget how Kelly sided with tRump and lied about US Congresswoman Wilson

as well as the widow of the soldier killed in 2017 when tRump called her and couldn't remember his name. Kelly is a "loser", not as big as tRump but none the less he is still an enabling loser. Don't expect him to have any respect for the US now or ever.


"Soldier’s Widow Says Trump Struggled to Remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s Name"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/politics/soldiers-widow-says-trump-struggled-to-remember-sgt-la-david-johnsons-name.html

[iluvtennis]

2. + 1. nt