“Idiots and losers”: controversy over Trump’s sentence on soldiers who died during the war. Biden: “Disgusting”

NEW YORK – The soldiers who died during the world war? “Idiots” and “losers”. Donald trump he allegedly used these terms when, during a visit to France in November 2018 to mark the centenary of the end of World War I, he avoided going to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery by hiding behind bad weather conditions. Instead, he would have said to his collaborators, “What am I going to do? They were idiotic losers.” He supports this in a long article just published in The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the magazine. His statements, based on accounts from a number of sources, agree that the US president does not feel empathy for the survivors and the defeated: “categories like sacrifice, patriotism, service mean nothing to him.”

In this light, Goldberg analyzes the attacks that scandalized the United States four years ago, against Senator John McCain, the so-called “lion of the Senate” who died in 2018. The captured and tortured Vietnam veteran, respected even by the enemy for his heroism. At that moment the man responded by reminding him that “the rich always find a doctor who diagnoses a misplaced bone.” Remembering how Donald had been exempted from military service five times in Vietnam, thanks to a small, benign “bone growth” in his foot. According to the director of The Atlantic They were not just political attacks on an opponent, but the fruit of real contempt. The same thing, moreover, showed towards George Bush the father: whose plane was shot down by the Japanese in 1944. And, precisely, towards the Marines killed in Belleau Wood, despite their sacrifice, precisely those troops stopped the advance. German to Paris in 1918.

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The article appears to have infuriated the president, who at this time is not very popular with the military, as a survey of Military times It gives Biden a six-point lead over the Commander-in-Chief among the troops. And in fact the White House has already denied it: “It is false, Trump has shown on several occasions that he respects the military, whose pay has also increased.” And a statement from Mike Pompeo also comes to his rescue: “I’ve never heard of anything like this.” But meanwhile James LaPorta, a journalist from the Associated Press, he marries the Goldberg version. He claims to have heard from a defense officer (but does not mention the name).

The reaction of the Democratic candidate was very harsh Joe biden, who immediately called the statements attributed to Trump “disgusting”. Heartbroken that his son Beau, who died in 2015 from a tumor, went to Iraq as a volunteer, “and he was certainly not a fool.” If the information is confirmed, continues the leader dem, the president “should apologize.” One more proof, he argues, that “he is not in a position to be president.”