No, John Kelly Did NOT Corroborate The Atlantic’s 2020 Hit Piece on Trump
MATT MARGOLIS | 10:33 AM ON JUNE 29, 2024It was hardly a surprise that Joe Biden told many lies during the presidential debate on Thursday evening. One lie in particular that I knew was coming is the lie that Biden has been leaning on for four years now: the anonymous claim reported by The Atlantic in September 2020 that Trump didn’t want to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because the troops there who died in battle were “losers” and “suckers."
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The article was quickly debunked after it was first published, and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, even admitted the story may have been wrong and that subsequent reports that the trip to the cemetery was canceled due to weather were likely true. In fact, weather reports confirmed that Trump’s visit to the cemetery was, indeed, canceled due to weather.
But, just because a story is debunked for years doesn’t mean Joe Biden won’t keep repeating it, and he, of course, did so during the debate.
"I was recently in – in – in France for D-Day, and I spoke to all – about those heroes that died. I went to the World War II cemetery – World War I cemetery he refused to go to. He was standing with his four-star general, and he told him – he said, I don’t want to go in there because they’re a bunch of losers and suckers,” Biden claimed. "My son was not a loser. He was not a sucker. You’re the sucker. You’re the loser."
Trump responded by pointing out that the quote was made up. In fact,
over twenty witnesses with President Trump on that trip to Paris went on the record to dispute the story, including John Bolton, who is no fan of Trump.
But Biden kept pushing the fake story. . . .
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/06/29/no-john-kelly-did-not-corroborate-the-atlantics-2020-hit-piece-on-trump-n4930263
