President Trump holds the military in the highest regard,” White House spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said of the Atlantic’s reporting. I swear on whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES,” Trump wrote. Trump believed people who served in the Vietnam War must be “losers” because they hadn’t gotten out of it, according to a person familiar with the comments. “Isn’t he kind of a loser?” Trump asked, according to the person familiar with Trump’s comments. You don’t make any money,” Trump said, according to the former official, who added of Trump: “Everything is transactional to him.”

Source: Washington Post September 04, 2020 03:06 UTC