'Only an animal would say things like that,' Trump denies he insulted US military
US President Donald Trump is pushing back on reports that he called American soldiers buried at a French cemetery “losers” and “suckers.”
"Only an animal would say things like that,” Trump said Monday at the White House.
The allegations were made in an article in The Atlantic in relation to a 2018 trip to France, where he disparaged US service members killed in World War I.
“The story is a hoax, written by a guy who’s got a tremendously bad history,” Trump said. “The magazine itself, which I don’t read, I hear is totally anti-Trump ... He made up the story, it’s a totally made-up story.”
The president earlier called for firing of a Fox News reporter, who confirmed The Atlantic findings.
On Thursday night, the magazine published a bombshell story, citing four anonymous sources that said Trump had repeatedly mocked US soldiers killed in battle.
The president also skipped a visit to a veterans' cemetery in France out of concern for his hair in rainy conditions.
"To think that I would make statements negative to our military when nobody has done what I've done, with the budgets and the military budget," Trump said Thursday night after returning from a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. "We're getting pay raises for the military. It is a disgraceful situation, by a magazine that is a terrible magazine, I don't read it."
Meanwhile, The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg defended the credibility of the report.
"I stand by my reporting," he said. "I have multiple sources telling me this is what happened, and so I stand by it."
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