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The US election campaign is marked these days by a press scandal that risks rolling and grabbing attention, and it appears likely to cause problems for President Donald Trump.
On Thursday night, The Atlantic ran a bombshell article claiming, citing four sources on condition of anonymity, that President Donald Trump had repeatedly spoken in derogatory terms about American soldiers killed on the battlefield. I would have called them “fools” and “losers.” In addition, says the author of the article, the American president would have canceled a visit to a cemetery of the heroes of France for fear that the rain had ruined his carefully groomed hair.
Immediately, the article was picked up en masse and Democrats, including Donald Trump’s opponent Joe Biden, were quick to condemn the president for his alleged behavior.
In turn, the White House had an aggressive reaction to the article.
“How can you think I would make negative comments about our army when nobody did as much as I did, with the budgets and the budget of the army?” We have increased soldiers’ balances! It’s a shameful situation, from a terrible magazine, that I don’t read, ”said Donald Trump. However, the attack on the post continued on Twitter. “Atlantis“It’s dying, like most magazines, so they told a false story to get some visibility,” wrote Donald Trump.
National security adviser Robert O’Brien was also called in to help the president, who told reporters that there is no person more empathic with the military than the president. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said he had never heard the president use the language described in the article.
Even the first lady had a public reaction. “The article of The Atlantic is not true. It is very dangerous when anonymous sources are credited, without anyone knowing their motivation. This is not journalism, it is activism. And it hurts the people of our great nation, “Melania Trump wrote on Twitter.
Jeffrey Goldberg, author of the article in The Atlantic, He told CNN that he still supports his report and that he has multiple sources to confirm it.
CNN mentions that it could not verify the version supported by “El Atlántico” from independent sources, but it remembers a fact: in 2015, shortly after officially entering the race for the Republican nomination for the presidency, Donald Trump said about the former senator from Arizona John McCain, now deceased, who is not a war hero. “He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who are not captured,” said Donald Trump.
Republican John McCain was shot down and held captive by the Vietnamese for more than five years. The injuries he suffered as a result of the torture he suffered during his captivity left him, among many other illnesses, disabled: he could not raise his arms above his head.
Editor: Luana Păvălucă
