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Reporting beginning with a 2020 Atlantic story says Donald Trump privately called some U.S. war dead “losers” and U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood “suckers,” a claim the former president has repeatedly de...
The core allegation is that President Donald Trump described American war dead as “losers” and “suckers,” specifically saying the Aisne‑Marne cemetery in France was “filled with losers” and that the M...
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 — ...
Multiple reputable outlet reports say Donald Trump referred to some U.S. service members and war dead as “suckers” and “losers,” with the key reporting originating in a 2020 Atlantic piece and corrobo...
Reporting from multiple outlets traces the allegation that Donald Trump called U.S. service members—dead and living—“suckers” and “losers” to a 2020 Atlantic story that cited multiple sources and to l...
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...
Reporting from The Atlantic alleged that during a November 2018 trip to France then‑President Donald Trump called American war dead at the Aisne‑Marne American Cemetery “losers” and — in related comme...
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...
Multiple mainstream news organizations reported in 2020 that The Atlantic published anonymous-sourced claims that then-President Donald Trump called American war dead “suckers” and “losers,” and those...
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...
Reporting over several years has repeatedly alleged that Donald Trump called American service members and war dead "suckers" and "losers," an allegation first detailed in a multi-source Atlantic piece...
Reporting beginning with a 2020 Atlantic article alleges Donald Trump called U.S. service members who died in war “losers” and “suckers,” and that those comments were repeated and amplified in subsequ...
The Atlantic reported in 2020 that then‑President Donald Trump privately said the Aisne‑Marne cemetery was “filled with losers” and called U.S. Marines who died at Belleau Wood “suckers,” a claim the ...