How the Atlantic twisted the truth

Jeffrey Goldberg has four "anonymous" sources. Trump has 11 named ones

The Atlantic has stunk up an otherwise beautiful Labor Day weekend with a uniquely ugly story. Anti-Trump editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg claims that Donald Trump snubbed a World War One American cemetery in France because ‘it’s filled with losers’, and the Doughboys buried there are ‘suckers’. Goldberg also asserts that ‘Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain’ on November 10, 2018.

President Trump categorically rejected the Atlantic’s tale. He called it a ‘total lie. It’s fake news. It’s a disgrace.’

‘I was ready to go to a ceremony,’ Trump told journalists at Joint Air Base Andrews Thursday night. ‘But the helicopter could not fly…because it was raining about as hard as I’ve ever seen. And, on top of that, it was very, very foggy.’ The Secret Service would not transport Trump by motorcade, he added, since ‘it was a very long drive’.

The Atlantic’s Goldberg wrote: ‘Neither claim was true.’

Who to believe? Goldberg or Trump?

Goldberg cites ‘four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day’ — all anonymous.

In contrast, at least 11 named members of Trump’s Paris team corroborate him. So does an email from an unidentified military aide. So do the weather data. Trump’s next-day agenda also discredits the Atlantic.

President Trump’s most compelling witness is former national security adviser John Bolton. Since getting sacked last September 10, Bolton has become a stalwart Trump critic

Nonetheless, Bolton told Fox News: ‘I didn’t hear either of those comments or anything resembling them. I was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go. It was an entirely weather-related decision and, I thought, the proper thing to do.’

Pages 241-242 of Bolton’s 577-page anti-Trump tome, The Room Where It Happened, published June 23, torpedoes the Atlantic’s foundering ship:

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