Atlantic Editor Admits Key Detail of Anti-Trump Hit Piece May Be Untrue
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Any serious journalist would be disgusted by this. Are there any serious journalists left?
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I don't reflexively trust Goldberg. And I sure as shit don't reflexively trust whoever the fuck "TechnoFog" is along with whichever dipshit blogger from PJMedia you linked.
What's telling though is that John Bolton is denying any of this was ever said. That's about as scathing of a rebuttal as you can find. -
no lolSwaye said:Any serious journalist would be disgusted by this. Are there any serious journalists left?
All journalists are leftists cunts -
This. When the story first broke I doubted it, but stayed very open to the possibility that something resembling this maybe was said, because Trump is known for saying dumbshit things. But when Bolton, who loathes Trump, said it never happened, that put the nail in the coffin for me. Fake news.GreenRiverGatorz said:I don't reflexively trust Goldberg. And I sure as shit don't reflexively trust whoever the fuck "TechnoFog" is along with whichever dipshit blogger from PJMedia you linked.
What's telling though is that John Bolton is denying any of this was ever said. That's about as scathing of a rebuttal as you can find. -
Why consider Facts when you have such strongly held feelings.GreenRiverGatorz said:I don't reflexively trust Goldberg. And I sure as shit don't reflexively trust whoever the fuck "TechnoFog" is along with whichever dipshit blogger from PJMedia you linked.
What's telling though is that John Bolton is denying any of this was ever said. That's about as scathing of a rebuttal as you can find.
Amiright? -
In a 24hr news cycle, this was a calculated move by dem operatives, working with Atlantic Staffers. It’s low risk/high reward. Clearly, the story is, at best, highly embellished, and at worst, completely fabricated. So what’s the fallout?
Is the Atlantic going to lose subscribers or advertisers? Highly unlikely.
Will this cause any former Biden supporters to switch to Trump? Of course not.
Will any former Trump supporters switch to Biden? Probably not, in any meaningful numbers.
Will any undecided/center voters ultimately choose Trump because they feel as though this was mis-reported? Maybe, but not in meaningful numbers.
Will any undecided voters see the original story as it was covered by CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg etc etc etc and decide that Trump hates our servicemen and that’s enough to get them to hold their nose and make the decision to vote for Biden? Probably.
The battleground is with the undecided voters in swing states. The partisans have drawn their lines in the sand and Neither candidate is going to lose their base. This is about seeing what lies you can get away with or which will have minimal blowback. Pure and simple.
If you polled 1000 undecided voters and asked them what they know about Trump and the funeral in Paris, 90% of them are gonna say They heard he skipped it and called our troops a bunch of suckers and losers, because it SEEMS like something they’ve heard or seen him say in other contexts prior.
10% are gonna say that they heard the story turned out to be untrue and that they are totally turned off by what seems to be coordinated effort between the DNC and major news outlets to lie to the American people.
That 80% delta was worth it for them to lie, and it likely paid off. -
Bolton denies he (Bolton) heard Daddy say any of this. Nothing more.GreenRiverGatorz said:
What's telling though is that John Bolton is denying any of this was ever said. That's about as scathing of a rebuttal as you can find. -
Pathetic HH. Just pathetic.
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"I didn't hear that," Bolton told The New York Times. "I'm not saying he didn't say them later in the day or another time, but I was there for that discussion."Bendintheriver said:Pathetic HH. Just pathetic.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bolton-wont-rule-out-trumps-disparaging-remarks-on-soldiers-but-says-he-didnt-hear-them-firsthand?_amp=true -
So Bolton was there and didn't hear it
Nor did he hear it at any other time
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That’s his story. It might be true, although it’s certainly possible he did hear it and doesn’t want to explain why he didn’t instantly resign.RaceBannon said:So Bolton was there and didn't hear it
Nor did he hear it at any other time
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Oh fuck off, this story is dead
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Oh no, it's far from dead.Goduckies said:Oh fuck off, this story is dead
Trump is starring in the new remake of
"I spit on your (military) grave"
Comes out in less than 60 days. -
Just give it up HH. You have had your ass handed to you once again. You have been on the wrong/losing side so much lately it has become a joke.HHusky said:
"I didn't hear that," Bolton told The New York Times. "I'm not saying he didn't say them later in the day or another time, but I was there for that discussion."Bendintheriver said:Pathetic HH. Just pathetic.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bolton-wont-rule-out-trumps-disparaging-remarks-on-soldiers-but-says-he-didnt-hear-them-firsthand?_amp=true -
The Dazzler thinks it's a game of hide-the-sausage. And as long as nobody admits they were in the room and heard it, the alleged statement is truth because it was published in The Atlantic.Bendintheriver said:
Just give it up HH. You have had your ass handed to you once again. You have been on the wrong/losing side so much lately it has become a joke.HHusky said:
"I didn't hear that," Bolton told The New York Times. "I'm not saying he didn't say them later in the day or another time, but I was there for that discussion."Bendintheriver said:Pathetic HH. Just pathetic.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bolton-wont-rule-out-trumps-disparaging-remarks-on-soldiers-but-says-he-didnt-hear-them-firsthand?_amp=true
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What's the preponderance of the evidence say consuelo?HHusky said:
That’s his story. It might be true, although it’s certainly possible he did hear it and doesn’t want to explain why he didn’t instantly resign.RaceBannon said:So Bolton was there and didn't hear it
Nor did he hear it at any other time
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I have no idea whether the sources confirming the story say Bolton was present.Sledog said:
What's the preponderance of the evidence say consuelo?HHusky said:
That’s his story. It might be true, although it’s certainly possible he did hear it and doesn’t want to explain why he didn’t instantly resign.RaceBannon said:So Bolton was there and didn't hear it
Nor did he hear it at any other time
Got it -
The fucking democrats who have been shitting on the military for at least the last 60 years, now want to run out the fact that they in fact are the party who loves the military, not the other guys. These guys are priceless/
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Exactly. Who can possibly forget JFK shitting on the military?Alexis said:The fucking democrats who have been shitting on the military for at least the last 60 years, now want to run out the fact that they in fact are the party who loves the military, not the other guys. These guys are priceless/
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WOLF
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That would be 60 years ago old timerHHusky said:
Exactly. Who can possibly forget JFK shitting on the military?Alexis said:The fucking democrats who have been shitting on the military for at least the last 60 years, now want to run out the fact that they in fact are the party who loves the military, not the other guys. These guys are priceless/
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Ummmm, yeah. That's the point.RaceBannon said:
That would be 60 years ago old timerHHusky said:
Exactly. Who can possibly forget JFK shitting on the military?Alexis said:The fucking democrats who have been shitting on the military for at least the last 60 years, now want to run out the fact that they in fact are the party who loves the military, not the other guys. These guys are priceless/
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You were agreeing with @Alexis ? OK
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If that's how you took it, enjoy.RaceBannon said:You were agreeing with @Alexis ? OK
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I was right. The story and the Biden ad about Trump calling dead soldiers “losers” was a complete fabrication by a failing magazine in coordination with a failing Biden campaign.
The liberal morons in the comments don’t even understand how they got played.
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You've simply got to be feigning this degree of stupidity, Ivan.NorthwestFresh said:I was right. The story and the Biden ad about Trump calling dead soldiers “losers” was a complete fabrication by a failing magazine in coordination with a failing Biden campaign.
The liberal morons in the comments don’t even understand how they got played. -
Just Bolton saying he was there but pay no attention to it because you're dumber than a mud fence.HHusky said:
I have no idea whether the sources confirming the story say Bolton was present.Sledog said:
What's the preponderance of the evidence say consuelo?HHusky said:
That’s his story. It might be true, although it’s certainly possible he did hear it and doesn’t want to explain why he didn’t instantly resign.RaceBannon said:So Bolton was there and didn't hear it
Nor did he hear it at any other time
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Bolton said, “I was there when the President didn’t say that.”?Sledog said:
Just Bolton saying he was there but pay no attention to it because you're dumber than a mud fence.HHusky said:
I have no idea whether the sources confirming the story say Bolton was present.Sledog said:
What's the preponderance of the evidence say consuelo?HHusky said:
That’s his story. It might be true, although it’s certainly possible he did hear it and doesn’t want to explain why he didn’t instantly resign.RaceBannon said:So Bolton was there and didn't hear it
Nor did he hear it at any other time
Got it
A thing people say.
