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US President Donald Trump is demanding that Fox News, which is his favorite television channel, fire journalist Jennifer Griffin, reports the Ritzau news agency.
The president has been heavily provoked after Griffin in a television broadcast declared that the president speaks disparagingly of American war veterans.
Ever since The Atlantic Magazine wrote on Sept. 3 that Trump has referred to American war veterans as “losers” and “fools,” the president has come under heavy attack.
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The magazine refers to various sources recounting how Trump has referred to veterans in negative terms and writes that the president has asked that injured veterans stay away from military parades.
It is also clear from the The Atlantic article that Trump has used the terms “losers” and “fools” about American soldiers who died during World War I.
It is said to have taken place in connection with a visit to France in 2018, where the president attended the centenary celebration of the end of the First World War.
Donald Trump did not show up at a war cemetery for 1,800 fallen American soldiers. The official explanation was bad weather.
Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin says she received confirmation from two former White House officials that the president “did not want to run off to honor war-killed Americans” at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery outside. from Paris.
Twitter attack
A former official is said to have told Griffin that Trump has also used derogatory terms when referring to war veterans from the Vietnam War.
When the president spoke about the Vietnam war, he claimed that “it was a stupid war. Everyone who left (at the time) was” foolish. “It’s a character flaw of the president. He couldn’t understand why someone would die for his country, when it was not worth it, says the source of the Fox News journalist.
An irate Trump has reacted strongly on Twitter.
“Jennifer Griffin should be fired for these kinds of reports. She never called us for comment. @ FoxNews is completely gone, the president writes.”
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
“My sources are not anonymous to me, and I doubt they are anonymous to the president,” Griffin said on his television channel Saturday.
The Vietnam War claimed the lives of some 60,000 American soldiers.
The sensational article in The Atlantic is very bad news for Trump and his campaign to be re-elected as president of the United States, writes Ritzau.
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