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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom Military Times - Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as 'losers,' 'suckers'
DELRAY BEACH, FLa. A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 as losers and suckers.
Trump said Thursday that the story is totally false.
The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trumps comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense officials said Trump made the comments as he begged off visiting the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of Nov. 10, 2018.
Staffers from the National Security Council and the Secret Service told Trump that rainy weather made helicopter travel to the cemetery risky, but they could drive there. Trump responded by saying he didnt want to visit the cemetery because it was filled with losers, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Trump said Thursday that the story is totally false.
The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trumps comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense officials said Trump made the comments as he begged off visiting the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of Nov. 10, 2018.
Staffers from the National Security Council and the Secret Service told Trump that rainy weather made helicopter travel to the cemetery risky, but they could drive there. Trump responded by saying he didnt want to visit the cemetery because it was filled with losers, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
More at: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/09/03/report-trump-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers/
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From Military Times - Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as 'losers,' 'suckers' (Original Post)
George II
Sep 2020
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(297,137 posts)1. In the MilitaryTimes.. Good! They need to know who their so called CIC is..
Staffers from the National Security Council and the Secret Service told Trump that rainy weather made helicopter travel to the cemetery risky, but they could drive there. Trump responded by saying he didnt want to visit the cemetery because it was filled with losers, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
This is who he is.. everyone who is not soaked deep in the Death Cult45 knows it.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)2. This isn't going away.
And this is a big deal.
This is the long where people let up because they figure Trump will lose. Do not let up, make him resign!
sheshe2
(83,737 posts)3. Seems like his shadow is following him everywhere.
It is going to haunt him. No escaping what we all know he said. He has done it numerous times.
He had no clue what La David Johnson's name was when he spoke with his widow. He crassly told her that he, her dead husband knew what he signed up for.
Fuck Trump.