New details on the bizarre effort to hide the USS John S. McCain for Trum

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Trump cried "fake news" on a WSJ report that officials had attempted to hide the USS John S. McCain during Trump's visit to Japan.

Newly released emails, via @JasonLeopold and @rebeccaballhaus, show just how accurate the reporting was.

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Analysis | New details on the bizarre effort to hide the USS John S. McCain for Trump
Trump tried to cast doubt on the report. New emails show how officials reacted in real time to the request from the White House, including one who said, “This just makes me sad.”
10:26 AM · Sep 29, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/new-details-bizarre-effort-hide-uss-john-s-mccain-trump/

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It’s one of those Trump controversies that you might have somehow forgotten, due to the volume of such flaps.

The Wall Street Journal reported in May 2019 that the military had worked to obscure the USS John S. McCain ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to a neighboring ship in Japan. It was a decision that apparently stemmed from Trump’s feuds with the decorated war hero and late senator, who was added as a namesake for the ship initially named for his father and grandfather.
But the senator had died just nine months prior, rendering the effort particularly bizarre.

Trump initially seemed to confirm that someone had tried to keep the ship out of sight, while emphasizing that he didn’t request it. But then he called the reporting into question, citing a statement from the Navy and suggesting that the report was “an exaggeration, or even Fake News.”

It was not fake news, as a batch of newly released emails reinforces and details.

The emails, obtained by Bloomberg News reporter Jason Leopold and by the Wall Street Journal through Freedom of Information Act requests, fill out the story of military officials responding to a request from the White House Military Office. Among the discoveries:

* They show military officials saying repeatedly that this was a White House request, but also that officials didn’t want to put it in writing.
* At one point, a military official was apparently so taken aback by the request that the person asked that it be confirmed. “I could see that becoming a Tweet,” the official added.
* Another military official responded the next morning by saying, “This just makes me sad.”

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[RAB910]

1. What pisses me off are the MAGAts that put that monster in the White House

[MagickMuffin]

2. THIS "This just makes me sad."

Indeed, sad and furious! What that snowflake, gaslighting, imbecile did and continues to do to the American psyche is criminal to the core.

[liberalla]

3. I do remember this and it disgusts me...

My Mom hated when I used this word, but it really pisses me off... even more now than it did then.

The supreme pettiness of the orange ass is revealed once more.

[magicarpet]

4. The feeee-feeees of the Orange Fuhrer must not be offended at any cost.

Vindictiveness against McCain because he gave a thumbs down to the killing of Obama's - Affordable (health)Care Act - ACA.

That was tRUMP's top policy he wanted enacted to marginalize Obama and kill the ACA, McCain denied tRUMP of achieving that goal.

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