It's mere weeks before Election Day, and naturally, it's time for some bogus hit pieces against Donald Trump. We've been through this before. Four years ago, The Atlantic published a report claiming that Trump didn’t want to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because the troops there who died in battle were “losers” and “suckers."
The article was quickly debunked after it was first published, and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, even admitted that the story may have been wrong and that subsequent reports that the trip to the cemetery was canceled due to weather were likely true. Weather reports confirmed that Trump’s visit to the cemetery was, indeed, canceled due to weather. The story also claimed asked his then Chief of Staff John Kelly at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2017, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
It never stopped Joe Biden from speaking of the story as if it were true. The story was based on anonymous sources, and the only people who came forward publicly about what happened that day (more than twenty) said it never happened. Eventually, the left started claiming that Kelly had corroborated the story.
He never actually did. John Bolton — who is no fan of Trump — even said that Kelly was the one who recommended Trump not go.
"I didn't hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. I was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go to Aisne-Marne cemetery," Bolton told Fox News in September 2020. "He decided not to do it because of John Kelly's recommendation. It was entirely a weather-related decision, and I thought the proper thing to do.”
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So it's weird that Kelly is now suddenly claiming that Trump did make those remarks. He's even gone further to make the outlandish claim that Trump spoke positively of Hitler. “He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly told the New York Times.
Let’s think critically about this for a moment. Kelly served in the Trump administration from Jan. 20, 2017, to Jan. 2, 2019. Does anyone really believe that Kelly, a man who lost his son in Afghanistan, would have continued serving as Trump’s chief of staff if he had witnessed Trump dismissing the sacrifices of our troops in 2017 or calling fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” in 2018? The idea that Kelly would stick around after such remarks defies common sense.
Kelly even told the New York Times that Trump made such comments more than once.
“The time in Paris was not the only time that he ever said it,” Kelly said. “Whenever John McCain’s name came up, he’d go through this rant about him being a loser, and all those people were suckers, and why do you people think that people getting killed are heroes? And he’d go through this rant.”
“To me, I could never understand why he was that way — he may be the only American citizen that feels that way about those who gave their lives or served their country,” he added.
Ask yourself why Kelly, who was Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, is only now claiming that he heard the president praise Hitler and insult our military during his tenure. If these stories were true, why would he continue to serve as Trump's chief of staff? If these stories were true, why did he not come forward with these claims after he left the position in 2019? If he didn’t speak up then, why should anyone believe him now?
The simplest explanation is that they aren't true.
