Trump Slams ‘Slimeball’ Journalist Behind “The Atlantic” Story Claiming He Called Dead and Injured Troops ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ and Insists He Has ‘Worked Hard to Rebuild the Military’

President Donald Trump departs the White House in Washington on Saturday as his motorcade took him to Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia

President Trump on Saturday hit out at the ‘slimeball reporter’ who broke the story claiming that he disparaged wounded and fallen American soldiers as he was photographed in his motorcade arriving at his Virginia golf club.

‘You work so hard for the military, from completely rebuilding a depleted mess that was left by OBiden, to fixing a broken V.A. and fighting for large scale military pay raises, and then a slimeball reporter, maybe working with disgruntled people, makes up such a horrible charge,’ the president tweeted on Saturday.

The president compared The Atlantic story by Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, to the controversial Steele Dossier, which some say triggered the Mueller investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.

‘This reminds me of the Dirty Dossier, which was pushed hard by John McCain, & then with a thud turned out to be a total fraud,’ the president tweeted

The ‘slimeball reporter’ Trump was referring to is Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine who broke the story earlier this week in which the president is claimed to have disparaged American war dead and wounded and missing GIs as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’

The politically explosive report, published on Thursday, claimed that the president called U.S. military heroes killed in battle ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’ – and that he turned down a trip to visit U.S. war dead in France due to the rain.

‘This reminds me of the Dirty Dossier, which was pushed hard by John McCain, & then with a thud turned out to be a total fraud,’ the president tweeted.