"President Trump Denies Claims He Disparaged US Soldiers Killed In War'
President Trump denies claims he disparaged US soldiers killed in war, 2 hrs ago, ABC News.
President Donald Trump is forcefully denying a new report that claims he made disparaging remarks about fallen American troops.
According to the new report in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, Trump referred to American service members killed in war as "losers" and "suckers" and canceled a visit to a cemetery for American soldiers outside Paris in 2018 because he didn't think it was important to honor them. ABC News has not independently confirmed The Atlantic report, which cites four unnamed sources with direct knowledge in making the claims.
Landing in Washington late Thursday night after a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the president -- visibly angry -- delivered a seven-minute diatribe to reporters who had traveled on Air Force One. "I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There's nobody that respects them more," Trump said.
The president insisted the story is fabricated and suggested the anonymous sources were former officials who did not succeed in their roles in the administration. They made it up and probably it's a couple of people that have been failures in the administration. That I got rid of, and I couldn't get rid of them fast enough. Or it was just made up," he said.
Trump again denied the report in a press conference Friday afternoon, calling it a "hoax" and comparing it to the Russia investigation.
"There is nobody that feels more strongly about our soldiers, our wounded warriors, our soldiers that died in war, than I do," Trump said. "It's a hoax, just like the fake dossier was a hoax, just like the Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax. It was a total hoax. No collusion. Just like so many other things, it's a hoax. And you'll hear more of these things, totally unrelated, as we get closer and closer to election."...
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- President Trump allegedly said a prominent US cemetery outside Paris was "filled with losers' in 2018. He cancelled his visit to the site and service.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54034707
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