Washington Post confirms Atlantic story, adds that Trump didn't think US should rescue soldiers MIA

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from WaPo's Alex Horton linking to the Post's article:

Link to tweet

Link to the article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-said-us-soldiers-injured-and-killed-in-war-were-losers-magazine-reports/2020/09/03/6e1725cc-ee35-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html

A former senior administration official confirmed to The Washington Post that the president frequently made disparaging comments about veterans and soldiers missing in action, referring to them at times as “losers.”

In one account, the president told senior advisers that he didn’t understand why the U.S. government placed such value on finding soldiers missing in action because they had performed poorly and gotten caught and deserved what they got, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

Trump believed people who served in the Vietnam War must be “losers” because they hadn’t gotten out of it, according to a person familiar with the comments. Trump also complained bitterly to then-Chief of Staff John F. Kelly that he didn’t understand why Kelly and others in the military treated McCain, who had been imprisoned and tortured during the Vietnam War, with such reverence. “Isn’t he kind of a loser?” Trump asked, according to the person familiar with Trump’s comments.

Emphasis added.

[Blue Owl]

1. Donny didn't just shoot himself in the foot...

He blew his whole goddamn leg off...

[forgotmylogin]

17. And he'd probably metaphorically whine that he didn't get a purple heart for it. n/t

[Thekaspervote]

2. Oh that is just so disgusting!

[coti]

3. Wow. More logs on the fire.

It's roaring now.

[Leghorn21]

4. Okay, I believe every word I'm seeing tonight and waiting for Tom Cotton and Dan Crenshaw

to comment HA HA HA JUST KIDDING but meanwhile, is the sr official John Bolton do you think?

[keithbvadu2]

18. Tom Cotton was an Army officer but when it came to supporting the troops or Trump, he said TBI was j

Tom Cotton was an Army officer but when it came to supporting the troops or Trump, he said TBI was just a headache.

[Cha]

5. Rt! trump's Getting BUSTED.. SUCK ON IT, LOSER.

[oasis]

10. If I could contact Trump, I'd have only three words...

"squirm baby, squirm"

[Cha]

11. & SQUIRM Some More! you could

reply to his Tweets of Protesting too much?

.. or do you tweet?

oases

[oasis]

19. I barely text.

My tech skills are limited. No Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. I've never posted a link in my many years here at DU. I communicate here on a worn out I-pad. I went mostly dormant in DU General Discussion during Obama's eight years and expect to do so again after Joe is firmly in place.

I'll be checking in GD from time to time, and will browse the other forums here. DU has some of the brightest minds on the planet. Their informed contributions to its forums has been very helpful to me over the years.

I have greatly valued the information you have provided to this board as well as your friendship. My respect for you will continue throughout my days, though my level of participation here may drop a bit.

[Cha]

26. Aww. Mahalo!.

Well, glad I mentioned it 'cause I respect & value your friendship, too, oasis.

I Hope we will be so Lucky to get Biden & Harris in our WH. Looks like we signed up around the same time.. I got my computer just so I could join DU.. had no clue how to work it, but slowly and surely I learned.

I left for 2 years in 2010 though and went to The Obama Diary.. where they respected & cataloged his years in the White House. So I learned about what was happening there that the m$m wouldn't show.

DU does have brilliant minds & I've learned a lot over the years, too.. Super Cathartic.. Aloha!

[bdamomma]

34. what nice comment

to you Cha from Oasis, this is what makes DU special. It's nice to see nice.

[Cha]

35. I know what you mean, bdamomma..

Craving Kindness.. & I really appreciate oasis' sweet post and yours, too.

[oasis]

6. Expect "Morning Joe" to have one helluva lineup for 9/4.

I love the smell of popcorn in the morning, it reminds me of.....victory.

[Cha]

13. lol.. well said.. "I love the smell of

in the morning"!

[highplainsdem]

15. Andrea Mitchell and Nicolle Wallace will have Barry McCaffrey on:

Link to tweet

[oasis]

21. "No nonsense" Gen. Barry McCaffrey, strictly business.

I've never seen him crack a smile. He's gonna bring the hammer down on Benedict Donald.

[nolabear]

7. Tomorrow is going to be EPIC.

[crickets]

22. Please, oh please. I hope so.

My only concern is the dumpster fire he's going to light to try to distract everyone.

[KS Toronado]

29. Yes it is, I'm gonna watch faux news in the morning just to see how they spin it.

[misanthrope]

8. That's a new element not in the other story

This has legs, it looks like.

[highplainsdem]

9. That's why I included it in the subject line. And yes, this story has legs.

We're almost guaranteed to hear more horrifying details of Trump's contempt for the military.

[tirebiter]

12. Son Tay

[Politicalgolfer]

14. Why do I sense it's dancing on the grave time?

He's dead meat now! Think of all those who have served or are now serving. His remarks don't just pertain to the dead...they also means he views anyone who served as losers & fools😡

[liberalmuse]

16. This will bury him.

Trump is done. There aren't enough Putin-bots and Trump-lickers to turn this avalanche of vile shit around. There is so much pleading desperation in the denials of the Trump-humpers regarding this that it's almost laughable. They know he is done, too.

[Marie Marie]

20. I sure hope that you are right but bounties on the heads of our live troops did not phase them.

I will never understand his supporters or enablers.

[BComplex]

24. That's me, too, MarieMarie. If russian bounties didn't turn off his base, this won't do it, either.

They'll just say it's "fake news", and "bad apples that have been fired" are the "losers" saying this. We know the routine. We've been living with it for almost 4 years.

[summer_in_TX]

27. I'd qualify that. Maybe it didn't phase some of his supporters or enablers.

But there's a reason polling reported recently in Military Times shows Biden with a slight lead.

The active-duty military can't be expected to talk on social media about it, but the fact that so many officers and soldiers were supporting Biden means they've noticed his many deficits: abandonment of our allies the Kurds, not to mention not condemning Russia for placing a bounty on the heads of American troops.

It will make a difference for many conservatives who might otherwise have voted for him.

[highplainsdem]

31. I hope so.

[Straw Man]

23. Never underestimate the power of denial ...

... accompanied by bleats of "Fake news! Fake news!"

[uponit7771]

25. Trump said this very thing about McCain

[wnylib]

30. I did not agree with McCain's politics, but

I always had, and still do, great respect for his service.

The fact that McCain survived his ordeal and went on to become a US Senator made him a stronger, better man than Trump could ever hope to be. And Trump knows that. It's why he disparaged McCain so much that he even continued fighting his ghost long after he died.

What a pathetic loser Trump is.

[flibbitygiblets]

28. "loser" who "performed poorly and got caught and deserved what (he) got"

Finally Needy Amin is projecting something we can get behind!

[Delmette2.0]

32. FFS, that SOB would have left my brother and my cousin behind!

My brother served in the Marines, Viet Nam, three years. He never talked much about his experiences. It could not have been good. My cousin served in the Army in Nam, he too, could have been injured or captured, instead he received two Purple Hearts. He never, never talked about it, he just drank himself to death to kill the emotional pain


FUCK TRUMP. He would have pissed and shit himself the first time a drill sargent yelled "Line Up"

[electric_blue68]

33. Just add another big ole log to the bonfire ...

A VERY VERY BIG Bonfire of Disgracefulness by Donnie

Just when you think think he can't sink any lower


No military past my Parents gen (WW2) but I once had
a 2° of separation from someone being held hostage internationaly for 2+ yrs.

I'm sorry your cousin drank himself to dearh, how awful.