This incident is entertaining but also ghoulish. You
want to cheer the demise of a facially untrue liberal media narrative,
though it also involves the death of an American service member. The
Atlantic is back to its usual game of trying to manufacture a total myth
to damage Donald Trump. The publication was the source for the infamous
and equally false ‘losers and suckers’ lie in 2020.
BREAKING:
Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who lied to the American public into
the Iraq War and fabricated the "suckers and losers" hoax during the
last election, has just launched his latest October hoax.
Once again, he's relying on anonymous sources.
Once again, it's a… pic.twitter.com/dxAM13tGzX
The headline for this tall tale goes as follows: “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.’” Yet,
the lede is about the grisly death of U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa
Guillén, who was murdered by another soldier, Aaron David Robinson, who
bludgeoned her to death in 2020. Her remains were later dismembered and
burned by Robinson, who later committed suicide, and his accomplice
Cecily Aguilar:
Guillén, the daughter of Mexican
immigrants, grew up in Houston, and her murder sparked outrage across
Texas and beyond. Fort Hood had become known as a particularly perilous
assignment for female soldiers, and members of Congress took up the
cause of reform. Shortly after her remains were discovered, President
Donald Trump himself invited the Guillén family to the White House. With
Guillén’s mother seated beside him, Trump spent 25 minutes with the
family as television cameras recorded the scene.
In the meeting,
Trump maintained a dignified posture and expressed sympathy to Guillén’s
mother. “I saw what happened to your daughter Vanessa, who was a
spectacular person, and respected and loved by everybody, including in
the military,” Trump said. Later in the conversation, he made a promise:
“If I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help—I’ll help you with
that,” he said. “I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.”
[…]
In
an Oval Office meeting on December 4, 2020, officials gathered to
discuss a separate national-security issue. Toward the end of the
discussion, Trump asked for an update on the McCarthy investigation.
Christopher Miller, the acting secretary of defense (Trump had fired his
predecessor, Mark Esper, three weeks earlier, writing in a tweet, “Mark
Esper has been terminated”), was in attendance, along with Miller’s
chief of staff, Kash Patel. At a certain point, according to two people
present at the meeting, Trump asked, “Did they bill us for the funeral?
What did it cost?”
According to attendees, and to contemporaneous
notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we
received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.
Trump became angry.
“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to
his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!”
Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said,
according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”
Khawam,
the family attorney, told me she sent the bill to the White House, but
no money was ever received by the family from Trump. Some of the costs,
Khawam said, were covered by the Army (which offered, she said, to allow
Guillén to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery) and some were
covered by donations. Ultimately, Guillén was buried in Houston.
Wow.
I
don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics-
hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for
service members. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to
my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today. https://t.co/o8cDrKOKBV
— Mayra Guillen (@mguilen_) October 22, 2024
Only
a Trump-deranged lunatic would believe this myth. The kill shot came
from Guillen’s sister, Maya, who expressed disgust that Vanessa’s death
would be exploited to score political points. She also said that Trump
“did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”
Get
wrecked, Atlantic. The headline, the lede—it’s just so outrageous that
we don’t even need to get to the Hitler part. It’s all been said before,
and we know it’s a total lie. If the lede is shoddy, so is the rest of
this shambolic hit job. What a circus.
On
the left: I sent Atlantic a comment saying President Trump “absolutely
did not say that,” referring to the alleged comments about Ms. Guillen
they printed.
On the right: Atlantic translated that comment to “didn’t hear Trump say it.”
Treat this dishonest piece accordingly. pic.twitter.com/pM1o1c9fEm
***
UPDATE: The family attorney said Golberg lied. Do I smell a lawsuit and another journalistic scandal?
After
having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is
unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey
Goldberg@the Atlantic
: not only did he misrepresent our conversation
but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story.
More… https://t.co/uJtfsNTo37
— Attorney Natalie Khawam (@WhistleblowerLF) October 22, 2024
So here's another perfectly timed @JeffreyGoldberg
(former Editor at Salon) Atlantic story, running with more anonymous
sources, who several people have come out now on the record to dispute.
Of course CNN NBC and others are running with the anonymous story
instead of the on the… https://t.co/lZFjvNHcPT
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 23, 2024
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