September 5, 2020
The nefarious purpose behind The Atlantic’s 'Trump and the military' hoax
By Andrea Widburg
On Thursday, The Atlantic published an article that used anonymous sources to claim that President Trump repeatedly disparaged American troops, both living and dead. By Friday morning, Democrats were weaponizing the article to cover for Biden’s serious problems with the military: His support for the Iraq War, and the way the Obama administration weakened the military. Trump, however, revitalized the military and fought for the troops.
The article’s primary allegations are that Trump refused to visit a WWI cemetery because of his hair, said the Marines who died taking Belleau Wood were “suckers†and “losers,†and drew back in revulsion from troops who lost limbs. Every assertion is false. People with first-hand information who were willing to go on the record exposed how terribly The Atlantic lied about Trump.
John Bolton, a Trump foe, was clear. “I was there,†he said, about the decision to cancel the Belleau Wood trip, and “I didn’t hear that.†Contemporaneous documents support Bolton, but The Atlantic ignored them:
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