The Atlantic had reported on Thursday that Donald Trump cancelled his trip to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because he felt as if the troops buried there are “losers” and “suckers” for getting killed.
Trump had launched into a tirade on Friday after learning about the report and claimed that those accusations were false and he never said that about the troops.
“The Atlantic Magazine is dying, like most magazines, so they make up a fake story in order to gain some relevance. Story already refuted, but this is what we are up against,” Trump claimed, falsely stating the story had been refuted.
But hours after Trump’s tantrum, Fox News joined the Associated Press and The Washington Post and confirmed that the bombshell report in The Atlantic was in fact true.
Per @JenGriffinFNC: This former official heard the President say about American veterans: “’What’s in it for them? They don’t make any money?’ It was a character flaw of the President: he could not understand why someone would die for their country, not worth it.”
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) September 4, 2020
Also from @JenGriffinFNC: re John McCain, “the President just hated John McCain. He always asked, ‘Why do you see him as a hero?” Source confirmed POTUS did not want flags lowered but others in the White House ordered them at half mast. There was a stand off, President relented.
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) September 4, 2020
AND, per @JenGriffinFNC former official said re: the French trip to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I: “The President was not in a good mood. Macron had said something that made him mad about American reliability and the need perhaps for a European army…
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) September 4, 2020
Finally per @JenGriffinFNC “When asked if POTUS could have driven to the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, this former official said confidently, no security reason not to drive there-
“The President drives a lot. The other world leaders drove to the cemeteries. He just didn’t want to go.”
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) September 4, 2020
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