After all the stupidity and incompetence, Trump really does sound like he says things with no filter. And even as he says he said no such thing, his excuses are even stranger, and his lies are getting amplified by the Russians, again.
A new report details multiple instances of Donald Trump allegedly making disparaging remarks about members of the US military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 as “losers” and “suckers”.
The allegations were first reported Thursday in the Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events confirmed some of the remarks to the Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense official said Trump made the comments as he declined to visit the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of 10 November 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.
As @JeffreyGoldberg’s story in @TheAtlantic comes on the heels of Trump and various Republicans going full on stupid, and issuing de facto endorsements of 17-year-old vigilante Rittenhouse shooting/killing people, everyone will now be too distracted for “walk backs” to be needed.
— Michael S. Smith II (@MichaelSSmithII) September 4, 2020
as this new report confirms, it appears that some analysts at DHS really are trying to get the word out to stop Russian disinformation from polluting our election, even if some higher-ups might be less inclined to do the same. This latest one concerns Russian efforts to spread lies about something that preoccupies President Trump as much as Biden’s mental acuity does: vote-by-mail.
But it’s important to underscore a critical point about this: Russian disinformation and Trump disinformation are basically identical and have the same goals.
Darn those receipts:
Via @fitsnews: “Donald Trump: John McCain Is ‘A Loser’” http://t.co/sgiETvdUqi
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
I’m one of the pilots that got shot down. Our Commander-in-Chief thinks that makes me a loser.
He thinks the many friends I lost & soldiers I medevac'd were suckers.
This is disgraceful. @realDonaldTrump is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.https://t.co/R8IxeRBwoP
— MJ Hegar (@mjhegar) September 3, 2020
