The Atlantic was good doobie and did the Democrat Party’s bidding. Jeffrey Goldberg published content alleging that Mr. Trump is disrespectful to Vets and Service members. The obvious goal is to cut into his election support, but you have a problem when you’ve lost John Bolton.
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Goldberg has another problem. He claims four anonymous sources, but every person present when this was supposedly said has denied it happened. That might sound like closing ranks, but this is not the case. Bolton wrote a screed after Trump fired him, many parts of which have been debunked. And Gen. John Kelly, who was Trump’s Chief of Staff – a man tasked with surrounding Trump with swamp rats and RINOs (and trying to turn advocates into enemies) to subvert the Trump agenda – has his own chief of staff denying it happened.
In addition to Fuentes, former National Security adviser John Bolton has denied the account—as has every other person who could have witnessed the president saying this…
While Kelly himself has not said anything publicly at this stage, Fuentes’s denial essentially serves as a denial from Kelly. That’s because Fuentes, in his denial, made clear that Kelly would not have stood idly by if Trump had, in fact, made the remarks that were alleged in the Atlantic story.
“Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?” Fuentes asked Breitbart News.
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If these guys are not backing the Atlantic story, then it’s garbage, but you already knew that. There is no evidence Mr. Trump has anything but the utmost respect for our service members. But the media, on cue (probably all got a group email with The Atlantic article the day before it published) ran with the lie.
And it is a familiar tactic. The impeachment hearings were based on hearsay, started by someone with no direct first-hand knowledge. This is no different. And some people will continue to believe it—most of them, the same folks who still think Donald Trump called white supremacists very nice people.
And there are a lot of them out there.
We have much work still ahead of us.
Update: I appear to be a bit behind on my reading. The Atlantic has begun to back away from the presumption (lie) that the President disparaged American war dead overseas. The author is still clinging bitterly to his “anonymous sources” but it suggests an early death for the narrative, not that left-wing narratives ever die.
