US President Donald Trump has demanded that Fox News confirm the claim that the Republican leader had made the military unparalleled after firing his national security correspondent - a bomb blast that killed him two days ago. Cut off
Trump came under fire after Atlantic
Magazine reported that he called the Marines killed in World War I
"losers" and "saucer" during a November 2018 tour of France
when he visited the United States. The military had stopped visiting the
cemetery.
The official explanation for this lost
tour was bad weather.
Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin
said two former administration officials had confirmed that the president
"did not want to drive in honor of those killed in the American war"
at Eisenhower Cemetery outside Paris. It wasn't that there was no element of
weather.
An official also told him that Trump used
the word "Saussure" to insult the military, but in different contexts
related to the Vietnam War.
"When the president talked about the
Vietnam War, he said, 'It was a stupid war. Whoever went was Saussure.'
"It was a flaw in the president's
character. He could not understand why anyone would die for his country,"
the source said.
An angry Trump tweeted late Friday:
"Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting. We were
never asked’ to comment. @ Fox News is gone!"
Trump defended himself in the context of
the story in the Atlantic, tweeting and condemning the stories, calling them
"fake news." He called Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine's
editor-in-chief, who wrote the piece, called "Slim Ball."
Oddly enough, Trump's friend Fox News was
criticized’ for apparently ignoring Griffin's reporting in the coverage of the
story.
On its front page on Saturday, a story
headlined: "Sources claim Trump visited military cemetery for hating
fallen soldiers.
Several of Griffin's colleagues in Fox,
along with People's Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, have publicly
defended him on Twitter, calling him "fair and fearless."
"I can tell you that my resources are
inaccessible," Griffin said on his network broadcast on Saturday. "My
sources are not anonymous to me and I suspect they are anonymous to the
president."
Just before the Atlantic published its
story, a survey by the Military Times and the Syracuse University Institute of
Veterans and Military Families found that only 37.4 percent of active-duty
officials supported Trump's re-election bid, compared to 43.1 percent. Who
support Biden.
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