"The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell
The Atlantic."
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
You know, the problem with this starts right at the words, 'multiple sources.' I disregard these articles entirely because they're most certainly more fiction than fact. There is not a single source given in this entire article that someone could directly follow up with, so this is 'fake' journalism. You cannot make a claim like this that's controversial and support it by 'a friend of a friend said" and so on. Journalism has become so muddied these days I think most people would miss the distinction.
This
IS a story: "Senior advisor
John Smith confirmed the comments Trump made about the fallen troops in France, and said: "This is a terrible shame that he did this. We must honor our heroes.", etc. This lets other people follow up with the mentioned individual and confirm the details.The who, what, when, where, and how have been addressed.
This is
NOT a story: "
A friend of a senior advisor to the President claimed that Trump made this disparaging remark about the troops, and is truly stunned." These are just creative writing, and the only thing that is a fact here is that Trump's last name is, in fact, Trump and that senior advisors exist. There is no who (no idea who the source is), what (it's third party testimony, even the source isn't in a position to validate the nature of the comment), how (it's gossip, the source couldn't directly know), when (the 'source' wasn't present), or where. (the source had not attended the event and has no idea if their friend, the alleged first party, was lying, nor could they.)
Anyway, never trust reporting without named sources... This is fiction writing and that's all. This is done specifically to make it so that the source can't be validated and the propaganda can spread.
Besides, there is nothing more ironic than the leftist shill media pretending to be incensed by bad remarks about troops. Hypocrisy, lol.