Just days ago the Atlantic published an anonymously-sourced story alleging that President Donald Trump belittled fallen American soldiers, which the president vehemently denies – only to have the shocking news revealed this week that the majority owner of the publication has donated millions to Democratic candidates all while having close ties to the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
That’s right – over $1.2 million has been donated to Democratic candidates and political committees by billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs. The widow of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who now owns a 70% stake in The Atlantic.
In addition, Powell Jobs contributed $2,800 to former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign in October, and then in June she donated an additional $610,600 to the Biden Victory Fund. She has also maxed out donations to at least 66 other Democratic politicians including former Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker, Tom Steyer, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang and Michael Bennett, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. According to the Federal Election Commission, she donated nothing at all to Republican candidates.
It is also a bit ironic that The Atlantic was the first outlet to report that Biden was running for president in April 2019. Bradley, The Atlantic’s chairman, served as a board member of the Biden Cancer Initiative – before it went defunct.
Yet, when contacted about the slanderous story about the defamation of soldiers by President Trump, Goldberg and Powell Jobs did not return requests for comment asking if Powell Jobs had any involvement in or had any advanced knowledge of Goldberg’s anonymously-sourced story.
Anyone who had the misfortune of reading the report that was published last Thursday evening that alleged that Trump called fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers” during a 2018 trip to France, knows it is complete nonsense. With all of his faults – President Trump is nothing if not patriotic. It is obvious by his actions on a daily basis that he is a huge fan of our military and works tirelessly to protect them and give them the benefits they deserve. Fake news at its lowest!
Trump and several high-level administration officials denied Goldberg’s report, and critics acknowledged that details and aspects of the report were obviously flawed.
Goldberg began the lies by saying that Trump had claimed he canceled a visit to the venerated Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because rain had grounded his helicopter.
Goldberg lied and said that four anonymous sources told him that Trump decided he didn’t want to visit the cemetery “because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead.”
Does that even sound like something Trump would say? If you think so…you have not been listening for four years. The lie has since been disproved by BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold who published documents last Thursday showing that the Navy did indeed cancel Trump’s air transport to the cemetery that day due to rain.
Leopold wrote the following on his social media account: “I obtained documents from the Navy via #FOIA about Trump’s 2018 trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris and the documents say his transport was canceled by the Navy due to rain.”
In addition, Trump aides defended Trump on Atlantic story. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was with him ahead of the visit to the French cemetery in 2018 when aide Zach Fuentes came in to say a bad weather call prevented the helicopter trip.
The White House statement at the time said that the president’s visit to the cemetery was “canceled due to scheduling and logistical difficulties caused by the weather” and that former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, whose son was killed while serving in Afghanistan, went instead.
The Atlantic is fake news.
Why is the Atlantic and Goldberg not being sued ? Maybe if these fake news idiots start having to pay for the lies they print this might stop . Are the liberals born vicious liars or is this something they have to work at ?
The Bible says: “The truth sets you free!” Then, that leaves you with: “Lies and non-truths” binds you up! What many in politics have yet to learn, is that “eventually” the “truth” is revealed, so don’t even think about lying!
The ATLANTIC is FAKE NEWS, almost at it’s BEST (well, it’s hard to beat the PROPAGANDA and the LIES of CNN!). One Enlightened Patriot. Team Trump and his allies 2020.
One thing is sure , the Extreme Radical Left is really in Charge of the Mainstream Media in our Country, extreme Bias Clearly Proven by the Media Carrying the “story” in the Atlantic, a supposedly anonymous unproven unchecked rumor , with no thought to checking facts first, if such a story had been made about Joe Biden, It wouldn’t have been widely published unless it came from a notable named source, and was Verified First!
Talk about getting desperate!!! The Dems have such a bad candidate……and NO plan for their party…….all they can hope for is to try and trash Pres Trump and hope we-the-people are STUPID enough to believe it!!
The DNC of old is dead and in its place has risen the enemy within. This is Ciceros Oratory on the Fall of Rome just before the traitors killed him and it is what the DNC today is clearly representing:
A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city.
But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague. — Marcus Tullius Cicero, from a speech given to the Roman Senate, recorded in approximately 42 B.C. by Sallust.
And today I have not found a better example of historic information that expresses the current risk the USA today and its patriots face. Are we Rome of today and ready to fall OR are we patriots who will destroy our enemy within. The vote is our weapon today. Take everY lunatic of the insane asylum of the DNC today DOWN. VOTE. EM. OUT!!!
The fake news and elitist’s think THEY will decide who will be elected! The common working class have what they have lost, and their money cannot buy COMMON SENSE!
I forgot to add the Deep State and War Mongers are included in that enemy within scenario. They work against the basic principles of this nation and its constitution. They are not elected and stay in power for too long. It is time to visit their situation too. I was amused as I watched them try to impact the impeachment, the mueller fiasco, the fisa disaster, etc..
They think Trump should follow their dictates. No wonder they want him gone. He has upended the game these unelected tyrants have played for many decades with all the weak minded presidents elected via the establishment. I believe the first thing that the establishment looks for as they back candidates is the weak minded fools that will allow these deep state bureaucrats to lead them around by the nose.
Trump was not an establishment guy and never a politician. Maybe the founders had it right in what those who seek election should really be. These days they have made seeking office so expensive all the seekers wind up owned by donors before they even hit the seats for those political jobs they fought for.
No free will, and no ability to really serve the voters wish list. Sound familiar? Why the new electies all turn away from their promises but some are just liking the money and bribes and it is why they are there in the first place, to get rich. So Trump donates his pay to charities every year. Says a lot, doesn’t it? There for us NOT there for self!!!
Thank you so much for this information. I already knew it was not true. It did cost me a friendship though she was real busy believing that the President had said that. She’s a dem so what did I expect? I had caught her another time making fun of the President so I had enough! I blocked her on f.b. It is a real shame to lose family and friends because they believe LIE’S about the President. I feel terrible about todays politics breaking up families/friends. It did not have to be this way!
Get ready, they have pulled out all the stops. We know that Democrats have no morals, ethics, brains, souls, respect for the law or the people of this country. At this point nothing should suprise anyone and anything goes. Let not your heart be troubled for we are quided by a man who wears his heart on his sleeve for this country as many of his supporters do.
God bless, protect and quide Donald Trump
So, how did John Kelly get to the cemetery? How did the other heads of state get there. I’ve been to France…they have roads there. It was a doable thing, except for Trump. The weather thing is a totally lame dodge. We do know that Trump has some kind of thing with his hair, so that report about his hair concern is very plausible. We (non-KoolAid drinkers) know that he has expressed much hostility toward various military personnel. A long list, including General Mattis, General Kelly, Senator (and former Navy pilot) John McCain, and president George H. W. Bush (also a former Navy pilot), as well as “my (his) generals,” who he called dumb, stupid, and “pussies.”
Why does Conservative Zone consistently get so much wrong? Being a partisan shouldn’t necessarily mean one is living in an Alternative Universe. Would that we could at least agree upon facts.
It might help to understand the distinction, in Trump’s case, between members of the military and the military. Members (I am a vet) are losers and stupid (I also have a Ph.D.), unlikeTrump who was smart enough to avoid the service (of course, most of us didn’t have well-connected billionaire fathers). The military is distinctly different to him–it’s, in a sense, an extension of himself, a sign of the strength and power that he needs to project, in order to disguise the sense of inadequacy within. He likes the military because it enhances him.
Dave Leonhardt of the New York Times was oh so ready to print this in his blog from NYT: The Morning. This was the day right after it was published and in his usual NYT fashion goose-stepped along with the Atlantic and its dems. No questions on his part at all. I replied citing that it was odd that such a boldly slanderous allegation came fro m ‘anonymous’ sources.
I mentioned about all of the banter about ‘Fake News’ supposedly being drummed up by paranoid conservatives, but the leftist media pretty much proved it here. (No feedback from him, BTW.)
WOW
just proves the liberal press will publish any lie they can think up to support their pitiful choice [joe biden] to try and save their libturd asses
ITS A SAD DAY IN POLITICS–THERE IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT THE SUPPORTERS OF OBAMA AND HIS CORRUPT GROUP WILL GO TO TO GET CONTROL–THEY THINK THE SILENT MAJORITY ARE STUPID–BUT WE PROVED THEM WRONG IN 2016 AND WE WILL PROVE THEM WRONG AGAIN IN 2020!!!! WE WANT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND KEEP IT THAT WAY–WE STILL REMEMBER HOW IT WAS BEFORE THE OBAMA ERA!!!!—WE WILL PROVE THAT WE CAN LIVE TOGETHER AS AMERICANS AND PROTECT OUR COUNTRY FROM THE EVIL THAT THE CORRUPT GROUP WANTS TO BRING TO OUR COUNTRY–WE LOVE OR RESPECT OUR FLAG FOR WHAT IT STANDS FOR–ANYONE THAT DOESN’T–DOESN’T BELONG HERE–THEY NEED TO TAKE THEIR HATE SOMEWHERE ELSE BECAUSE WE LOVE OUR HISTORY & OUR COUNTRY!! THE ONES THAT HAVE GOTTEN RICH FROM THE MONEY THE WORKING MAN PAYS TO SEE THEM CHASE A BALL OR MAKE BELIEVE ON A SCREEN–YET THEY HATE THIS COUNTRY–THEY BURN OUR FLAG–THEY HATE OUR PRESIDENT—0NE WORD FOR THEM—-LEAVE!!!!!–YOU PROMISED THAT YOU WOULD–WE DO NOT NEED YOU!!!!