The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, made a blatant fabrication in an article about former president Donald Trump’s relations with the families of fallen assistance people and his view on defense management.
The latest in a long series of far-left stores to lie and deceive Americans before a big election is Goldberg’s rude hit piece.
Mayra Guillén, the girl of fallen man Vanessa Guillén, whose home was featured as evidence in Goldberg’s part, slammed the store and Goldberg for exploiting her daughter’s dying.
” 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”, Mayra stated. ” President Donald Trump only showed appreciation to my family and, in my opinion, Vanessa. In truth, I voted for President Trump today”.
Mayra’s remarks come after Goldberg claimed that Trump displayed” hatred, rage, consistency, bigotry” at the thought of helping the Guillén home pay for Vanessa’s death. Vanessa was invited to meet with Trump after another man at Fort Hood, Texas, beat her to suicide. Her passing also gave rise to changes in the defense for women on outposts at the state and federal levels.
According to Goldberg’s article, upon hearing that the funeral cost$ 60, 000, Trump said,” It does n’t cost 60, 000 bucks to bury a f-cking Mexican”! and told Mark Meadows, his chief of staff at the time,” Do n’t pay it”! The Guillén home is of Hispanic origin.
While” contemporaneous notes” and” a witness” are used to support Goldberg’s claims, senior Trump administration officials who were present at the time of the alleged incident publicly dispute them.
Meadows said on social media that any advice that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her death costs is blatantly false. ” He was nothing but kind, courteous, and wanted to make sure that the military and the U. S. state did best by Vanessa Guillen and her home”.
Goldberg’s smear item is in line with his 2020 rest, the” fools and loser” fake that was also greatly rebutted by almost all concerned, which he originated later in the election year as well. Ideally, Democrats have since started rolling that ruse out whenever Trump mentions the military, just as they did once when Trump attended the Arlington National Cemetery service.
Nearly two hundred Trump White House officials debunked the strike part, which merely received” confirmation” from one resource outside of Goldberg, as my partner Jordan Boyd wrote. In the same way, Goldberg’s newest concrete is thinly sourced and relies on private evidence while ignoring or devaluing on-the-record claims.
Additionally, Goldberg appears to have fabricated a rejection from Meadows spokesman Ben Williamson, claiming that Meadows “denied having heard Trump make the statement.” In truth, Meadows said Trump “absolutely did not say that”.
” More vile lies from the media”, Kash Patel, former Pentagon chief of staff, posted on social media. ” I was it, this is the real truth, from the home of the fallen, @realDonaldTrump put them first, like he always does with our services people: America Usually”.
Goldberg also included a declaration Patel in his post, but published the evident fabrications, anyway.
He urged that Spc. as someone who was present in the room with President Trump at that appointment on December 4. Vanessa Guillen’s suffering home should not have to bear the cost of any dead plans, even offering to personally pay himself in order to recognize her life and sacrifice”, Patel’s speech to Goldberg said. ” In contrast, President Trump was able to include the Department of Defense designate her death as occurring’ in the line of duty,’ which gave her full military honors and provided her household access to advantages, services, and total financial aid”.
Another official who was actually present in the room, Theo Wold, who later refuted Goldberg’s claims, said that Mayra was” sure and confident in advocating for her sister when she was younger and she’s right now: The Atlantic hit piece is a lie.”
Because I assisted with translation that day, I was present at President Trump’s meeting with the Guillén family. Wold, a former acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, said that President Trump was “genuinely concerned about Vanessa Guillén and appalled by the tragedy the Guillén Family were going through. ” For example, President Trump had zero interest in the cameras. He met with the Guillén family in private for twenty minutes, and he only offered to make the news gaggle available to the press if it would help them honor Army Specialist Guillén and raise awareness of her case.
” He even told them that day that the press are vipers”, Wold concluded. ” Boy was President Trump right”.
The Trump campaign also denied the “f-cking Mexican” comment, which was included in Goldberg’s diatribe:” President Donald Trump never said that. This is an outrageous lie from The Atlantic two weeks before the election”, Alex Pfeiffer, a Trump campaign adviser, said.
Goldberg then turned to more unnamed sources, apparently” two people who heard]Trump ] say”,” I need the kind of generals that Hitler had”. Pfeiffer once again denied the comment:” This is absolutely false. Trump has never said this.
Goldberg made the unintentional claim that Trump has frequently expressed his disdain for those who serve in the military and for their devotion to duty, honor, and sacrifice in an attempt to further demonize Trump. Former generals who have served under Trump claim that obedience is his highest rank among military personnel. He has grown more and more interested in the benefits of dictatorship and the absolute control over the military that he believes it would give as his presidency came to an end, and in the years that followed, he has grown more and more interested in both.
As one would expect from propagandists like Goldberg, that claim makes Democrat fearmongering claims about “dictatorship,” which rhetoric has been linked to the two attempted assassinations against Trump.
Goldberg’s propaganda, however, is completely in step with the publication he works for. According to The Federalist’s Mark Hemingway, far-left funder Lauren Powell Jobs owns The Atlantic and has “built out a well-funded network designed to explicitly advance the policy goals of the Democratic Party.” Additionally, earlier this month, The Atlantic officially endorsed Harris for president.
When read in relation to Mayra Guillén and other Gold Star families ‘ statements about Trump’s “disdain” for the military, Goldberg’s assertion about his “disdain” for the military becomes nearly impossible to accept.
Notably, Trump was invited to a service honoring the fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery by the Gold Star families whose loved ones perished at the Abbey Gate during the Biden administration’s disastrous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Many family members criticized the Biden administration for having their children “murdered” due to the torrent of criticism Vice President Kamala Harris unleashed in her attempt to play politics with the deaths of 13 service members at the Abbey Gate.
In contrast, the Abbey Gate Gold Star families note Trump’s generosity.
” Trump has reached out when the current admin ignores Gold Star Families”, Christy Shamblin, mother-in-law of Sergeant Nicole Gee, said. ” I’ve grown to know him as approachable, honest, knowl]edge ] able about our veterans and above all strong in his belief that our armed service members are the finest the world has and deserve to be treated accordingly”.
Coral Dolittle, mother of Corporal Humberto Sanchez, said,” People often ask me why I support Donald Trump. The answer is simple. He is frequently described in media outlets and social media as being heartless and indifferent, especially toward the military. However, after meeting the man behind the name, I saw a different side of him. Donald Trump is caring, compassionate, and has shown our military families how much he genuinely cares about us, our children, and our grief”.
In addition to Goldberg’s questionable reporting in recent years, he is also a major progenitor of the lies that led to the American involvement in the Iraq War, which was once again caused by unnamed sources.
He did this, as Sohrab Ahmari pointed out in the New York Post, essentially at the behest of “pro-regime-change figures, American and Iraqi”.
The Federalist contacted The Atlantic for comment, but The Atlantic did not respond right away.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of education and culture for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.