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US President Donald Trump has asked Fox News to expel his correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, who confirmed media allegations that the Republican president insulted veterans.
“Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this type of journalism,” Trump said in an angry tweet. “He didn’t even call us for comment. Fox News is finished.”
Jennifer Griffin of Fox News did not confirm the ‘most salacious’ part of Atlantic Story https://t.co/rUpbSWhHac via @BreitbartNews All refuted by numerous witnesses. Jennifer Griffin should be fired for these kinds of reports. She didn’t even call us for comment. @Fox News It is gone!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2020
Trump was the subject of a strong wave of criticism after “The Atlantic” magazine published a report in which it claimed that it described the US Marines who were killed during World War I as “losers” and “idiots”, when not visited an American military cemetery on the outskirts of Paris during his visit. France, in November 2018.
The official justification for not visiting the military cemetery was that the weather was bad.
Griffin reported that two former administration officials assured him that the president “did not want to get in the car and go honor the dead American soldiers,” meaning the weather was not the cause.
An official also told him that Trump had used the word “fool” to discredit veterans, but in a different context related to the Vietnam War.
He quoted the anonymous official as saying, “When the president spoke about the Vietnam War, he said: it’s a stupid war, and everyone who went there was idiots.”
The official considered that “it was a false step derived from the personality of the president. He could not understand why people could die for his country, so it was not worth it.”
Trump vehemently defended himself after the release of the “Atlantic” report, tweeting and retweeting comments that described the report as “disinformation.” The magazine’s editor, Geoffrey Goldberg, who wrote the report, also described him as a “disgusting” person.
Both the United States Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and the first lady, Melania Trump, have defended the president of the United States, claiming that they are all lies.
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