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Fox News reported Trump never said that dead US troops were 'suckers,' but the network's national security correspondent said ex-officials confirmed he did
Fox national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin — said parts of the damning report were verified to her by two people who previously worked for the Trump administration.
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Fox national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin — said parts of the damning report were verified to her by two people who previously worked for the Trump administration.
9/5/20
Fox News spent a chunk of its Friday coverage dismissing a report in The Atlantic saying President Donald Trump belittled fallen military members by calling them "suckers" and "losers." Then Jennifer Griffin, a national security correspondent for the network, said in a lengthy Twitter thread that former Trump administration officials confirmed the president's remarks to her. The Atlantic article cited anonymous sources, and Fox News's own sources suggested the article had been falsified. But two former senior Trump administration officials later verified the president's disparaging comments, Griffin said. "According to one former senior Trump administration official: 'When the President spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, 'It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker,'" Griffin tweeted. This source also described "a character flaw" of the president, saying, "He could not understand why someone would die for their country," Griffin added. Trump was scheduled to visit Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris that November but said the trip was called off because "the helicopter couldn't fly" and that the Secret Service wouldn't drive him to the cemetery. Griffin learned, however, that Trump "just didn't want to go," she wrote on Twitter, citing an unnamed source.
One of the sources also confirmed that the president said during a planning session that it was "not a good look" to include the "wounded guys" in a July 4 military parade, Griffin reported. She also said she found out that Trump "just hated" Sen. John McCain. This corroboration comes on the heels of Trump, his family, and his advisers staunchly denying The Atlantic's story and framing it as a political attack by a biased magazine. Trump appeared to be aware of Griffin's reporting by Friday evening. The president took to Twitter to disparage Griffin and demand that Fox News fire her. Journalists who covered the White House responded to Trump by defending Griffin's credentials and her reporting. "[Griffin] is an excellent reporter and a class act," ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl said in a tweet. Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier also described Griffin as "a great reporter and a total class act."
Trump supporters love Fox ... until they don't.
Anything that casts Donald Trump in a negative light is immediately dismissed as "fake news", even it the one doing the reporting is a respected Fox News journalist.