DON:IT'S MEDIA HATCHET 'JOBS'!
Rips press, Steve widow for war-dead ‘lies’
President Trump on Sunday accused Democrats of being in cahoots with the media over reports alleging he disparaged America’s war dead — and he also took aim at Steve Jobs’ widow.
“The Democrats, together with the corrupt Fake News Media, have launched a massive Disinformation Campaign the likes of which has never been seen before. They will say anything, like their recent lies about me and the Military, and hope that it sticks,” the president tweeted.
“But #MAGA gets it!” he said, referring to his Make American Great Again core supporters.
The president and White House officials have adamantly denied the allegations made in a report by The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg last week. The article claimed Trump in 2018 referred to Marines killed in World War I and buried in a cemetery outside Paris as “losers” and called the 1,800 Marines who died in the battle of Belleau Wood “suckers” for getting killed.
Trump on Sunday also pointed out that the widow of Apple founder Jobs, who owns a major stake in The Atlantic, donated to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE,” Trump tweeted about Laurene Powell Jobs. “Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!”
Trump linked to a tweet from Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative group Turning Point USA, that said Jobs’ widow donated “at least” $500,000 to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Members of his administration hit the Sunday news shows to vouch for Trump and say the comments ascribed to him by anonymous sources aren’t indicative of his feelings about the military.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was asked if he ever heard the commander-inchief use such language.
“Quite the contrary,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “This president supports the military in an unbelievable way. He’s created more funding to rebuild the military. That was one of the things he campaigned on and he delivered. “I’ve been with the president to Arlington on Memorial Day. Let me tell you, I’ve listened to him there, I’ve watched him go visit sites there. I’ve been with him to the anniversary of World War II. It was a very emotional experience,” said Mnuchin, who didn’t accompany Trump to France in 2018 when he reportedly made the remarks.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said “absolutely not” when asked if he had ever heard the president utter such comments.
“And I would be offended too if I thought it was true,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Goldberg, on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” stood by his reporting. He said he had to weigh whether the public had a right to know about the comments with the “ambiguous qualities” of anonymous sourcing.
“But in this climate, with information that we judge the voters to need, we are going to use anonymous sources because we think the public has a right to know, especially when you have four, five or six sources, primary sources, corroborating sources, telling you the same thing,” he said.