You really do n’t hate journalists enough.
Another Trump Derangement Syndrome screed was just shoved out by a guy at the Atlantic named Jeffrey Goldberg, who claimed Le Bad Orange Man became irritated with the$ 60, 000 costs for a deceased soldier’s death that he had offered to pay for his return in 2020.
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For more environment: Spc. Vanessa Guillén was murdered in Fort Hood, Texas, by a fellow man in April of 2020. Ryan McCarthy, who was Secretary of the Army at the time, investigated her death. President Trump offered to pay for the death and presented his condolences to the family at the White House.
The narrative begins to sound like it was made up at this point:
In an Oval Office meet on December 4, 2020, representatives gathered to discuss a distinct national-security problem. Toward the end of the discussion, Trump asked for an upgrade on the McCarthy analysis. Christopher Miller, the acting secretary of defense ( Trump had fired his predecessor, Mark Esper, three weeks earlier, writing in a tweet,” Mark Esper has been terminated” ), was in attendance, along with Miller’s chief of staff, Kash Patel. At a particular place, according to two persons present at the meeting, Trump asked,” Did they act us for the death? What did it cost”?
According to visitors, and to historical records of the conference taken by a student, an aide answered: Well, we received a bill, the death cost$ 60, 000.
Trump became furious. ” It does n’t cost 60, 000 bucks to bury a f***ing Mexican”! He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order:” Do n’t pay it”! Later that evening, he was also agitated. ” Can you think it”? he said, according to a see. ” F***ing people, trying to rip me off”.
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The remaining has been clamoring about this blatant lie about Trump ever since he descended the beautiful stairway in 2015 to announce his political campaign, and everything about it fits perfectly with it.
Disdain for the government? Test. Greed? Test. Discourses about Latinos? Test. Private sources? Check, check, and test ( one for each supposed attendant of this meeting ).
Goldberg at least had the credibility ( surprising, I know ) to claim that Trump spokesperson Alex Pfeiffer denied that this event happened, saying,” President Donald Trump never said that. This is an absurd lay from The Atlantic , two days before the poll”.
Also Mayra Guillén, Vanessa’s sister, had this to claim on X:
Wow.
I do n’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics- hurtful &, disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members. Donald Trump, the president, did nothing but show me regard for my family and, yes, Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump now. https ://t.co/o8cDrKOKBV— Mayra Guillen ( @mguilen_ ) October 22, 2024
Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff at the time, is even calling the tale false, saying he was in the space when this “incident” happened:
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I participated in the discussions that the Atlantic’s most recent reach piece about President Trump featured. Let me suggest this.
It is totally false to think that President Trump insulted Ms. Guillen or resisted paying for her death costs.
He was nothing but form, courteous, and …
— Mark Meadows ( @MarkMeadows ) October 22, 2024
Yet Goldberg continues to use this incident as fact for the remainder of the article, using it to demonstrate that Trump will become a dictator once he returns to the White House and that he “wants generals like Hitler had” ( another omission Trump allegedly made ).
Therefore, these people begin to wonder why no one has any faith in the popular media.