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.
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.
‘So many other scams also.
‘The Radical Far Left is VICIOUS, they will do or say anything to win.
‘But they won’t, we will WIN, & have four great years!’
Trump has in years past criticized McCain, the late Republican senator from Arizona, for his role in the distribution of a document compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy.
The document contained salacious and unverified claims about Trump’s comments in a Moscow hotel room as well as claims of Russian influence over Trump’s circle.
Trump’s tweets early on Saturday morning came hours after he demanded that Fox News fire a reporter after she confirmed Goldberg’s report.
The president gloated in a tweet that the Fox News story ‘did not confirm the most salacious part’ of The Atlantic’s report that he had called First and Second World War veterans ‘losers’ and had skipped visiting the graves of American soldiers because he didn’t want the rain to ruin his hair.
But Jennifer Griffin claims she did confirm that Trump called US Army veterans ‘suckers’, had not wanted wounded soldiers included in military parades because ‘it was not a good look’ and had not wanted to honor American war dead at Aisne-Marne Cemetery outside Paris.
Fox News, the Washington Post and Associated Press were among the news outlets to all support The Atlantic’s reporting on Friday.
Trump was so enraged by Fox News’ reporting which backed the story, that he demanded the journalist Griffin be fired.
The president tweeted a link to a story by Breitbart, the far-Right, Trump-supporting website. It claimed that he was vindicated because Griffin only reported her sources as saying Vietnam veterans were ‘suckers’ – unlike The Atlantic, which reported that he’d said WW1 veterans were ‘suckers’.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail, Ariel Zilber, Luke Andrews, Keith Griffith, Harriet Alexander, and Geoff Earle
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