A recent report from Atlantic magazine states that President Trump described a WWI American cemetery in France as “filled with losers” and called American war dead “suckers” a “fake” Trump Campaign 2020 communications director Tim Merto said “History“Friday.
“Of course we deny this report because it’s fake,” Murto told host John Scott, adding that “there were other people in Paris, John, including the head of the President’s Secret Service, who said that also didn’t happen.”
Many current and former White House officials, including former national security adviser John Bolton, have denied that Trump made the comments described by The Atlantic. Bolton told Fox News on Friday: “I have not heard these comments or anything even like them.”
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However, a former senior administration official who accompanied the president on a trip to France said Trump called the Vietnam War a “stupid war” and said “anyone who went there was a sucker.”
The same official told Fox News that the president often spoke of American veterans: “What do they get from this? They don’t make money. “
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“Is he [Bolton] said that if he had heard these words of the president, he would have written a whole chapter about it in his book, “Murtaugh recalls.” I do not know what happened to journalism, where are they [The Atlantic] With these four anonymous sources, they won’t be speaking and giving their names to them, but The Atlantic is happy to publish this story, and it comes out exactly as Joe Biden is in freefall in polls. “
Murtaugh added that Biden should be in charge of the “scandals” of veterans’ affairs under the Obama administration, when “people have been waiting for months or even years in line … [and] left to die on gurneys in the hallway. “
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“This is what President Trump took away, and other veterans are getting their due care, and this is how the president shows his respect for military veterans … and he has restored veterans’ faith in the care they receive by gaining better access. , the best choice and the best treatment, ”he said. “This is how President Trump approaches the military.”
