Jeffrey Goldberg/Atlantic claim "sources" in Trump made up hit piece had to remain secret to avoid "angry tweets"

This week, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg dropped what could be his biggest piece since he won a major award for drawing bogus links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. The piece claims that during a 2018 visit to France President Trump canceled a visit to an American war cemetery, dismissing the dead who lie there as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ unworthy of passing beneath his presidential shadow.

Then there’s the fact this supposed exchange happened all the way back in 2018. For four years every remotely unflattering conversation involving the President has leaked almost immediately: recall the phone call with then-Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, or the ‘shithole countries’ remark. But somehow this conversation was preserved in Manhattan Project-level secrecy for more than two years, through a hotly contested midterm election, before abruptly being leaked and confirmed by four separate sources at the apex of the 2020 campaign, with a slickly produced ad ready to come out barely 12 hours later. Yet confirmed Trump-hater John Bolton undercut the core claim of Goldberg’s piece in his own recently-published book?

And then finally there’s the ‘unnamed sources’ part. Trump has countless very public enemies, many of whom were once close advisers to his administration. Yet for this supposedly ironclad story, nobody is willing to go on the record, while numerous people are on the record denying it. Supporters have pointed to the Goldberg’s personal reputation as Highly Reliable Reporter™ and the Atlantic’s status as a Highly Respected Magazine™, although this is the same magazine that printed a fake story to justify the defunding of the police. According to Goldberg, his sources just couldn’t take the fateful final step of lending their names to their allegations, because they fear having mean tweets sent at them.

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