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We Know Trump is Lying About Disrespecting the Military. Here’s the Proof.
The President has gotten himself into hot water for a report that claims he disparaged dead soldiers after refusing to attend a WWI commemoration ceremony at an American Military Cemetery on Nov 10, 2018. He — of course — denied having said that, and his proxies have been shouting “deep state conspiracy” into the great, yawning void ever since.
Any rational person knows he’s lying. The original Atlantic article was validated and fact checked by the AP and other news outlets. This alone should be sufficient. Then there was the lie he told about “calling Melania at home to say he was sad he couldn’t attend” — when she was in France with him the whole time. This alone would be entirely damning.
But lost in the he-said-she-said finger pointing is the simple fact that undermines Trump’s entire fabrication: the weather on November 10, 2018.
The Atlantic piece claims the President decided not to attend the ceremony out of fear that his hair would get wet, and that the dead were “losers” and “suckers.” The President and his allies have claimed that he wanted to go to the ceremony, but the military would not allow the helicopters to operate and it was too late to scramble a motorcade. If this was true, it would lend some credence to alternate, non-hairpiece theory of POTUS’…
