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FROM REGISTRATION TO NEW YORK. Soldiers who have fallen in love with America are “losers and losers.” It is understood that President Trump reacted with fury to these statements attributed to him by Atlantic. But the Associated Press independently confirmed everything, and most active duty soldiers already preferred Biden, according to a Military Times poll. For the head of the White House it would be a disaster because it would make him lose important votes and would also question his image as protector of law and order, while Congress has obtained from the Pentagon the guarantee that in the event of contested elections the troops will be they will deploy in defense of the Constitution.
The Atlantic article is signed by editor Jeffrey Goldberg and cites four anonymous military sources with direct knowledge of the events. In 2018, when Trump went to Paris to celebrate the centenary of his victory in World War I, he was offered to visit the Aisne-Marne Cemetery, where 1,800 Marines who died in the Battle of Belleau Wood are buried. The president hadn’t gone, officially because it was raining and the helicopters couldn’t fly. However, according to Goldberg, the Secret Service had offered to drive him, but he had refused for two reasons. First, to prevent the rain from messing up her hair; secondly, by a question to the collaborators in these terms: «Why should I go to that cemetery? It is full of losers. This episode is not the first in which the military has been insulted by Trump, who as a young man avoided going to Vietnam using an alleged foot problem as an excuse. During the election campaign he attacked McCain, saying that “he is not a hero because he was caught.” Then when the veteran died, the president complained about the flags at half mast: “Why the hell are we doing this? He was a fucking loser.
In 2017 in Arlington Cemetery, looking at the grave of Robert, the son of the White House chief of staff who fell in Afghanistan, he asked his father: “I don’t understand. What did they get out of it? Later, when he discussed the idea of a parade in Washington, he asked not to parade wounded and amputated soldiers: “Nobody wants to see them.”
The president denied, “What animal would say those things?” Biden attacked him: “Disgusting.” The White House then issued a series of denials, starting with Pentagon chief Esper. The reality is that the relationship with the military is tense, as General Mattis’s attack had shown, because Trump wanted to deploy them in the street against the protesters: “When I enlisted I swore to defend the Constitution.” This point also came up during a recent congressional hearing, where Democrats asked Chief of Staff Milley how the military would behave if the president disputed a possible defeat in November: “We will respect the Constitution.” According to a Military Times poll, 41% of soldiers intend to vote for Biden and 37% for Trump. Percentages destined to get worse if the Atlantic article proves true.
