@Brandon9000,
This why I usually don't bother with you: you support your arguments against mine someone else's words, usually a blog that is not reognized as a source of news.'
I trust NYT. I don't care if you don't.
What we are left with is a guy who's told 1000's of documented lies over the years. A guy who gets fact checked in real time.
So lets get back to the specific event that he denies and check out the truthfulness of his denial.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/03/report-trump-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers-2/
In denying disrespect of soldiers, Trump cites call to Melania. There’s just one problem.
PUBLISHED: September 5, 2020 at 8:58 a.m. | UPDATED: September 5, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.
By Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam and Kevin Liptak, CNN
(CNN) — President Donald Trump has vehemently denied reports that he skipped a 2018 visit to a World War I memorial in France because he was concerned about his hair and considered the cemetery “filled with losers,” as the Atlantic first reported.
Trump told reporters Thursday that he “called home” to Melania Trump at the time and told her how upset he was about not being able to visit the cemetery. At the time, the White House said he had to cancel the visit because of bad weather.
Trump said: “I called home, I spoke to my wife and I said, ‘I hate this. I came here to go to that ceremony.’ And to the one that was the following day, which I did go to. I said I feel terribly. And that was the end of it.”
But Melania Trump was not at “home” — she was on the trip with the president and was also scheduled to visit the cemetery.
A readout from the first lady’s office at the time said, “Due to inclement weather, the First Lady and President were unable to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in Belleau, France.”
He sure hooked up another date that I gaurentee included helicopters and/or motorcade PLUS dealing with the French security for Macron.
That evening, Trump and Melania went to a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.
When the decision was made to cancel the visit to the Aisne-Marne cemetery,
no aides cautioned Trump that it would play poorly, which he later blamed on Gen. John Kelly and one of Kelly’s top aides, Zach Fuentes. One person familiar with the discussions in the aftermath said
Trump accused them of “f*cking him” by not predicting the inevitable fallout. Because if he had he'd have gone.
Aides said at the time that Trump did not push to attend the ceremony after being told he could not fly there in the helicopter and that traveling by motorcade would prove difficult logistically.
Kelly replaced Trump on the visit to the cemetery. How Kelly get there and Trump couldn't???
Instead of the visit, Trump spent hours on that Saturday afternoon watching television inside the US ambassador’s residence, people familiar with the situation said.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/03/report-trump-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers-2/
SNIP!
The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump’s comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense officials said Trump made the comments as he begged off visiting the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of Nov. 10, 2018.
Staffers from the National Security Council and the Secret Service told Trump that rainy weather made helicopter travel to the cemetery risky, but they could drive there. Trump responded by saying he didn’t want to visit the cemetery because it was “filled with losers,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
SNIP!
Do you think that Trump has surrounded himself lying traitors?????
If he lied about the circumstances why wouldn't he lie about what he said especially once he found out the political cost of having not gone?
The rule is one bad apple ruins the barrel: you seem to think one good apple make a barrel of bad apples good.
He called John McCain a loser, why wouldn't he call the dead who can't defend themselves from Cadet Bonespurs suckers and losers?