The Atlantic’s Goldberg: We Know that Trump ‘Believes that People Who Serve the Country Are Losers and Suckers’

‘He said it multiple ways, multiple times’

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GOLDBERG: "I don‘t make much of them at all. The sister wasn‘t in the meeting. The lawyer for the family wasn‘t in the meeting. Mark Meadows was in the meeting. Kash Patel was in the meeting. A whole bunch of other senior officials were in the meeting. I have sources who are sitting in that meeting, I have contemporaneous notes taken by participants in that meeting that describe exactly what I described in the story. We‘ve seen this pattern again and again and again. They deny, deny, deny, and then it comes out as true. This is the same thing that happened with the previous iteration of this, and John Kelly confirmed this to both The New York Times and to me today, the 'suckers and losers' issue of Donald Trump calling veterans and the war dead suckers and losers, they denied and denied and denied, and we have multiple witnesses, John Kelly told me on the record that he and many other people in the White House heard Donald Trump constantly refer to the war dead, American war dead, as suckers and losers. We know that he believes that people who serve the country are losers and suckers. He said it multiple ways, multiple times.”

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