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"Jen Griffin confirmed most of the Atlantic story and this is the approach the president is taking?" (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beakybird Sep 2020 #1
Is this real? Johnny2X2X Sep 2020 #2
But hey, he's citing Breitbart, so there is that. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #4
Kick dalton99a Sep 2020 #3
Cancel culture. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #5
Donny's new nickname: "Salacious D" Blue Owl Sep 2020 #6
So he's happy to describe Vietnam vets as "suckers", but her source didn't confirm it for WW1 troops muriel_volestrangler Sep 2020 #7

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
2. Is this real?
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 11:42 PM
Sep 2020

So he admits to all of it save for whatever he thinks the “most salacious” part is? He said dozens of disgusting things about our troops. I suppose he’s saying she didn’t confirm “losers and suckers.”

Actually she confirmed the whole story, she just didn’t repeat that in FOX.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,312 posts)
7. So he's happy to describe Vietnam vets as "suckers", but her source didn't confirm it for WW1 troops
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:40 AM
Sep 2020

therefore he thinks he's vindicated?

But later today, while Griffin took pains to say she couldn’t confirm “the most salacious allegation,” she essentially confirmed the whole thing.

GRIFFIN: I spoke with two senior U.S. officials, former U.S. officials, who were on the trip to France, one of whom was in the meeting to plan the trip to the cemetery and they confirmed key parts of The Atlantic article. However, neither confirmed the most salacious allegation, that the president described the American war dead at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery as “suckers” and “losers.”

But as Griffin’s further comments revealed, we didn’t need to hear those exact words about the war dead at Aisne-Marne to know that they are exactly the sentiments Trump holds and that he has expressed one way or another.

GRIFFIN: One former Trump administration official told me today, when the president spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, “It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker.” The president would often say, according to this source, about American veterans, “What’s in it for them? They don’t make any money.” The source said “it was a character flaw of the president. He could not understand why someone would die for their country, not worth it to him.”

Multiple sources say they heard the president say something similar at Arlington National Cemetery, standing in front of General John Kelly’s son Robert’s grave.

https://www.newshounds.us/fox_s_griffin_confirms_trump_s_disgusting_contempt_for_u_s_troops_090420

And The Atlantic said the "suckers" remark about WW1 soldiers was a separate conversation on the trip, so if Griffin's source is a different person, it's not that surprising that one detail wasn't confirmed:

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.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
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