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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Sep 7, 2020, 08:38 PM Sep 2020

What the shocking new report about Trump and the military reveals about the GOP

One of the most talked about articles of the week is Jeffrey Goldberg's bombshell report in The Atlantic detailing President Donald Trump's appalling insults against military heroes, who he reportedly dismissed as "losers" and "suckers." Two Never Trump conservatives, Jennifer Rubin and Charlie Sykes, have responded to Goldberg's article with articles of their own — and both of them contemplate how many Republicans will or won't have the courage to call Trump out for insulting Americans who served in the military.

The Trump White House has flatly denied the allegations of Goldberg's sources. Yet the type of anti-veteran insults those sources attribute to Trump are consistent with his comments about the late Sen. John McCain in 2015; Trump said of McCain, who was captured and imprisoned by the Viet Cong for five years during the Vietnam War, "I like people who weren't captured." And according to three of Goldberg's sources, Trump had no interest in honoring McCain after he died in 2018 and said, "We're not going to support that loser's funeral."

Goldberg also reports that when Trump visited France in 2018, he insulted the American World War I veterans buried at Aisne-Marne Cemetery and said, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." The reporting in Goldberg's article, according to Rubin, "seems entirely in character for Trump." But she doesn't expect a lot of Republicans to condemn Trump because of it. (Some Trump current and former officials denied aspects of the report on the record after it was published.)

Rubin argues that the senior officials quoted anonymously in Goldberg's article should have had the courage to take a stand when Trump was insulting military veterans in their presence.

"The silence of these senior aides is really no different from the silence of virtually all elected Republicans," Rubin writes. "They, along with intellectually corrupt right-wing pundits and media outlets, have denied, deflected, ignored or excused almost everything that has come out of Trump's mouth. The so-called Republican hawks — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — have stuck with him through thick and thin. They did not condemn him when he first slandered POWs …. It seems there is no insult, lie or exaggeration about our troops too great to prompt these Republicans to declare Trump unfit to serve as commander in chief."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocking-report-trump-military-reveals-080002854.html

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What the shocking new report about Trump and the military reveals about the GOP (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
K&R Blue Owl Sep 2020 #1
Just like the silence of all the ones surrounding Hitler in the beginning. They said NOTHING Maraya1969 Sep 2020 #2
GOP - the Party of Nothing OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2020 #3
Just mho the "sources" are wise to stay quiet. The onslaught of hate including death threats Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #4
Trump calls these people 'losers'. keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #5

Thekaspervote

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4. Just mho the "sources" are wise to stay quiet. The onslaught of hate including death threats
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 08:52 PM
Sep 2020

To them personally and their families Would be unprecedented.

And, it would further discourage anyone else from coming forward, Anonymously or openly ending the important investigative journalism that we are once again seeing.

Thank you to the Jobs family and the Atlantic. Hopefully more will come forward once again.

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