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Cemetery located in Aisne, in France
Two decades of reporting and a high-profile 2020 Atlantic piece sparked claims that called fallen U.S. service members “suckers” and “losers,” and the clearest named confirmation from a former officia...
Multiple reporting and public statements say Donald Trump used words like “suckers” and “losers” to describe American service members who died or were captured, and those accounts tie the remarks to a...
The Atlantic’s 2020 reporting alleges President Donald Trump used the words and to describe U.S. service members who died in combat, including the line attributed to him, Multiple fact-checks and news...
The allegation that Donald Trump called U.S. service members who died in combat “suckers” and “losers” stems from a 2020 Atlantic story relying on unnamed sources and has been widely reported and disp...
John Kelly publicly confirmed that, while serving as White House chief of staff, he heard and later corroborated reporting that then‑President Donald Trump privately disparaged U.S. service members — ...
Reporting beginning with a 2020 Atlantic story alleges that privately called American war dead “losers” and “suckers,” primarily in reference to a canceled 2018 visit to the near Paris and to Marines ...
’s 2020 report that called some American war dead “losers” and U.S. Marines “suckers” rested primarily on contemporaneous, on-background accounts from multiple unnamed senior administration and milita...
The Atlantic reported in 2020 that President Donald Trump had repeatedly disparaged U.S. service members — including calling American war dead “suckers” and “losers” — and that he had questioned the v...
Independent fact‑checking organizations and mainstream news outlets have not produced an audio or video recording proving former President Donald Trump actually uttered the words “suckers” and “losers...
News coverage of President Trump’s November 2018 visit to France emphasized tensions with French leaders and controversy over a canceled cemetery visit; The Hill said the trip was “overshadowed by con...