Dan Rather on Atlantic’s Trump Story: ‘Whether He Said It or Not, It Is Believable to a Lot of People’
Joel B. Pollak 8 Sep 2020
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, who left the network for airing a false story about George W. Bush’s military service during the 2004 election, doubled down Tuesday on his support for a story in The Atlantic claiming President Donald Trump disparaged the troops.
The Atlantic cited four anonymous sources who claimed that Trump called American soldiers who died in World War I “losers†and “suckers†in 2018, and also claimed he skipped a visit to a military cemetery because he did not want to get his hair wet in the rain.
The claims have been disputed, on the record, by well over a dozen sources, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who has become a strident critic of the president. On Sunday, the U.S. Ambassador to France and former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Zach Fuentes both denied the story was true.
Rather, hosting a show on “Radio Andy†on Sirius XM 102, devoted a segment to the Atlantic story, asking callers to react to the story. He asked several whether they believed the allegations were true.
Rather and several callers said that while they could not know for certain, they believed the article’s allegations because of other things the president had said.
“Whether he said it or not, it is believable,†Rather said.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/09/08/dan-rather-on-atlantics-trump-story-whether-he-said-it-or-not-it-is-believable-people/