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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReport: Trump disparaged US war dead as 'losers,' 'suckers' (AP story confirming)
https://apnews.com/b823f2c285641a4a09a96a0b195636edBy JAMES LAPORTA
14 minutes ago
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.
The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense official 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.
The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense official 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.
eta: On Rachel, Mr. LaPorta said he had two sources.
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Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as 'losers,' 'suckers' (AP story confirming) (Original Post)
steve2470
Sep 2020
OP
If you're a veteran and still vote for trump after reading about Belleau Wood
Submariner
Sep 2020
#5
BootinUp
(47,141 posts)1. The shit is in the air heading towards the fan. nt
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)2. He must have mixed up WWI and WWII (as usual)...
...and thought he was disparaging a horde of Anitfa warriors.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)3. Traitorous monster.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)4. EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
This needs to go viral, and tRump needs to go straight to hell.
Submariner
(12,503 posts)5. If you're a veteran and still vote for trump after reading about Belleau Wood
then I hope you die in your sleep before filling out your absentee ballot you racist treasonous MFer.
oswaldactedalone
(3,490 posts)6. I'm still trying to decide
which is the more important story, Trump dissing the military or Nancys hair?
underpants
(182,772 posts)7. Fox News actually has it. Buried under an NPR is bad story
oswaldactedalone
(3,490 posts)8. Mary Trump
just called Trump a traitor.