Two resources that were in the consultation with Trump refuted the main thesis of The Atlantic report: that Trump canceled a visit to the AMERICAN cemetery in Aisne-Marne, which is located on the site of Belleau Wood, an early World War I war.because I thought dead infants were “losers.”
The White House said at the time that the resolution was taken due to the bad weather to fly in Marine One and the fact that the cemetery was too far away for a caravan to drive.
One of the resources that refuted Atlantic’s reports is not a Trump fan.Both resources said Trump was disappointed that he was simply not in Aisne-Marne and said he had never heard Trump call the war Aisne-Marne dead or the Battle of Bellau Wood “losers” or “fools.”
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Both resources also noted that Trump was not concerned about the weather of his hair, as reported through The Atlantic.The next day, Trump stood in the rain for an hour at another event.
The resources rejected only the claim about Aisne-Marne, not the other accounts in which Trump allegedly insulted the soldiers. Trump had attacked Senator John McCain in the past, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
But a senior former trump management officer who was in France with the president in November 2018 showed additional points and had another account of the canceled scale in the cemetery.
The source said that during the trip, the president was not in a good mood, angry at what the French president had said and wondering if he wanted to make a stopover in two cemeteries.Trump is said to have been warned that he would have bad press to cancel.He said there was no security explanation why not go to the cemetery, located about 40 miles from Paris.
“The president drives a lot. Other world leaders went to the cemeteries.He just didn’t need to go,” the source said.
According to the former civilist, Trump had also said of the Vietnam War: “It’s a stupid war.Who was there an idiot. But resources said Trump didn’t use the term to refer to the war dead buried in the Aisne-Marne.”
The former officer also heard the president say of American veterans: “What do they get paid?Don’t they make money?” Several resources showed that Trump had said something about it on a 2017 scale at Arlington Cemetery, as described in the Atlantic article, although one of them insisted that Trump was not derogatory.
In addition, regarding the minutes of the president’s army parade making plans on July 4, the source said that in a planning consultation at the White House after watching the July 14, 2017 parade, the president said of the inclusion of wounded veterans: “It’s not a smart “Y” preview Americans don’t like it.”
The White House categorically has that The Atlantic’s accusations are unfounded.
“Not a soul brave enough to call on any of these accusations,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said Thursday about the report.loves our army and has kept the promises it made.What a shame!”
Former Homeland Security Director John Bolton, who has brazenly opposed Trump, saying he would not vote for the president or Joe Biden in November, has written some scathing memoirs about his time in the White House.In a passage from these memoirs, Bolton defended Trump over the resolution not to make a stopover in Aisne-Marne.
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“The Marine One team said poor visibility can make it reckless to move to the cemetery,” Bolton wrote.”The roof is not too low for the Marines to fly in combat, but flying POTUS evidently something very different.A procession is needed, it can take between 90 and one hundred and twenty minutes in each direction, along roads that were not exactly roads, which poses an unacceptable threat that we cannot temporarily get the president out of France temporarily enough in an emergency.. It is an undeniable resolution to cancel the visit …”
Bolton later added: “The press turned the cancellation of the stopover in the cemetery into a story that Trump was afraid of the rain and is pleased to point out that other world leaders were moving the day.Of course, none of them were the president of the United States.However, the press has not understood that regulations for U.S. presidents are different from regulations for 190 other leaders who are not in command of the world’s largest armed forces.”
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Sources told Fox News that the resolve not to move to the cemetery was taken through chief of staff John Kelly and his assistant Zach Fuentes.Bolton wrote that Kelly was the one who advised the move, saying it was difficult for him to do so because he himself was a sailor.
Trump approached The Atlantic’s story on Twitter.
“Atlantic Magazine is dying, like top magazines, so they’re inventing a fake tale to gain relevance,” he wrote Friday.”Hitale has already been refuted, but that’s what we’re up against.Just like the fake file. You fight and fight, then other people realize it’s a general fraud.”
At a news convention Friday night, Trump targeted Kelly, even claiming that he “could have” been a source of history.And he called their claims a “hoax.”
Vice President Pence also the “absurd” report on FOX Business Friday.
“Any suggestion that this president likes and respects the men and women of our armed forces and their families is absurd at first sight to me because I walked the lands of Arlington National Cemetery with President Donald Trump,” Pence said.
Sam Dorman of Fox News contributed to the report.