Sources Say Trump Didn’t Cancel Visit To Military Cemetery In France Because Of Hatred For Slain Veterans

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Sep 4, 2020

Sources have spoken to Fox News stating that President Trump canceled a planned 2018 visit to an American military cemetery located in France because of inclement weather, not because of some sort of disdain or hatred he has for soldiers who die in combat, which is an allegation made by “anonymous sources” from a recent piece published by The Atlantic.

Here’s more on this from Fox News:

Two sources who were on the trip in question with Trump refuted the main thesis of The Atlantic’s reporting — that Trump canceled a trip to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, which is at the site of Belleau Wood, an important World War I battle, because he believed the dead soldiers to be “losers” and “suckers.”

Former national security adviser John Bolton, who has openly opposed Trump, saying he will vote for neither the president nor Joe Biden in November, wrote a scathing memoir about his time in the White House. In a passage in that memoir, Bolton actually defends Trump over the decision not to go to the Aisne-Marne.

“Marine One’s crew was saying that bad visibility could make it imprudent to chopper to the cemetery,” Bolton wrote. “The ceiling was not too low for Marines to fly in combat, but flying POTUS was obviously something very different. If a motorcade were necessary, it could take between ninety and a hundred and twenty minutes each way, along roads that were not exactly freeways, posing an unacceptable risk that we could not get the President out of France quickly enough in case of an emergency. It was a straightforward decision to cancel the visit…”

Bolton said later: “The press turned canceling the cemetery visit into a story that Trump was afraid of the rain and took glee in pointing out that other world leaders traveled around during the day. Of course, none of them were the President of the United States, but the press didn’t understand that rules for US Presidents are different from rules for 190 other leaders who don’t command the world’s greatest military forces.”

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This is just another fake news story being pushed by a failing mainstream media outlet that is looking for anyway possible to drum up some sort of attention so that folks might be tricked into thinking they are somehow relevant to the current conversation in American politics. They aren’t, but they certainly gave it the old college try, didn’t they?