“ just doesn’t get what’s happening! They are being fed Democrat talking points, and they play them without hesitation or research,” he tweeted. Trump has occasionally criticized Fox News in recent months, but this attack went further, as Trump declared he wants “an alternative now”. His son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, deployed to Iraq in 2008.The breakdown between president and news channel was laid bare in a string of tweets from Trump on Sunday evening. “When my son volunteered and joined the United States military – and went to Iraq for a year, won the Bronze Star and other commendations, he was not a sucker,” Biden said in emotional remarks in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden called the alleged comments “disgusting” and said Trump was “not fit to be commander-in-chief”. Trump’s Democratic challenger, the former vice-president Joe Biden, pounced on the news amid broad-ranging condemnation of Trump’s reported remark. Other senior military officials, including Jim Mattis, also a retired marine corps general and Trump’s former secretary of defense, have been silent about the comment. Meanwhile, Trump, who has speculated that Kelly might have been a source for the Atlantic story, said on Friday that Kelly “was totally exhausted” and “wasn’t even able to function in the last number of months” during his time in the Oval Office. “I also think he takes to heart the commitment to confidentiality in matters related to their interaction with the president,” he said. Multiple reports say that close friends and associates of Kelly have encouraged him to speak out, but Kelly has refused on-the-record interviews about the comments.Īnthony C Zinni, a retired marine corps general and close friend of Kelly, told the New York Times that Kelly is likely trying to “avoid taking a position that might be perceived as political”. While standing at the grave of Kelly’s son, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, Trump reportedly turned to Kelly and said: “I don’t get it. The Atlantic reported that Trump accompanied Kelly, who was the homeland security secretary at the time, to Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2017. The first lady, Melania Trump, also weighed in, in a rare political intervention tweeting that the Atlantic story “was not true”.īut Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, a retired marine corps general, has remained notably silent about the president’s comments. “There is nobody feels more strongly about our soldiers, our wounded warriors, our soldiers that died in war than I do,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday. Trump himself dismissed it as a politically motivated “hoax”. The White House has moved to deny the report unusually forcefully perhaps fearful of the scandal’s impact on military-supporting conservatives. In a tweet Trump said: “Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting. Among those was the Fox News national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, who confirmed in a Twitter thread that Trump called soldiers “suckers”, had questioned why anyone would want to become a soldier and had not wanted to honor war dead at the Aisne-Marne cemetery in France.Īmid furious denials of the story from the White House and Trump allies, Griffin’s reporting probably touched a nerve as it came from the usually reliably pro-Trump Fox News, whose conservative leanings and pro-Trump opinion show hosts are reliable cheerleaders for the president.
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