Atlantic Editor Now Admitting That A Key Detail Of His Article That Says President Trump Called Fallen Soldiers ‘Losers’ May Be Untrue

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PJ Media: Atlantic Editor Admits Key Detail of Anti-Trump Hit Piece May Be Untrue

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, admitted that a key detail of his article about Trump could be wrong during an interview with CNN on Sunday.

“When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed the rain for the last-minute decision, saying ‘the helicopter couldn’t fly’ and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true,” Goldberg wrote in his piece published last week. According to Goldberg, President Trump was overheard saying he wanted to cancel the trip to the cemetery because “it’s filled with losers.”

At least fifteen Trump administration officials who were with Trump on that trip have now disputed the Atlantic report, including former national security adviser John Bolton.

FOIA documents have also definitively proved that Trump’s visit to the cemetery was canceled due to weather. When Goldberg was asked about evidence that the cancelation was due to inclement weather, he admitted that it was likely true.

“I’m sure all of those things are true,” he told CNN.

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WNU Editor: And just like that the entire story is now falling apart. Unfortunately for President Trump. The claim that he called fallen soldiers ‘losers’ is what many people are going to remember.

Update: Oh groan …. Jeffrey Goldberg is still defending his article, claiming that “the public’s interest in meeting this information outweigh the ambiguities or the difficulties of anonymous sourcing.” (Atlantic Editor Concedes Central Claim Of Trump Hit Piece Could Be Wrong, The Federalist).

OK.

Lies and slander have now been reclassified as “ambiguities” and “difficulties.”

You just cannot make this stuff up.