It’s truly astonishing how the Biden campaign is not only built on falsehoods but continues to propagate them even after they’ve been repeatedly debunked. They persist in this strategy because they know the mainstream media will dutifully promote whatever narrative the Biden campaign desires.
Take, for instance, the latest attempt by the Biden campaign to revive the long-debunked accusation from The Atlantic that Trump refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in 2018 because he thought the troops buried there were “suckers” and “losers.”
This story was thoroughly debunked four years ago. More than a dozen Trump administration officials who accompanied Trump on that trip have disputed The Atlantic’s report, including former national security adviser John Bolton—who is no fan of Trump. Bolton told Fox News in September 2020, “I didn’t hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. I was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go to Aisne-Marne cemetery. He decided not to do it because of John Kelly’s recommendation. It was entirely a weather-related decision, and I thought the proper thing to do.”
Despite this, the mainstream media last year claimed that John Kelly had confirmed The Atlantic’s allegations, which also included the claim that on Memorial Day 2017, Trump told Kelly at Arlington National Cemetery, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” Yet, those closest to Kelly have stated that he would never have tolerated such remarks. It’s inconceivable that Kelly, who lost a son in Afghanistan, would have continued to serve in the Trump administration if Trump had indeed made those derogatory comments.
Zach Fuentes, former deputy to Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, told Breitbart News, “I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?” Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission, also corroborated this, stating, “I was the host of the event discussed by the false and despicable article published in The Atlantic magazine on 3 September … when the President’s visit was appropriately canceled due to weather, I received word also that he was upset he would not be able to make the wreath-laying visit.”
Moreover, FOIA documents definitively proved that Trump’s visit to the cemetery was canceled due to weather. When Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was asked about evidence showing that the cancellation was due to bad weather, he admitted that it was likely true.
So why does the Biden campaign continue to push this lie? It’s not just because the media can be relied upon to ignore correcting the story, but also because the Biden campaign knows it’s losing and is too desperate to care about the truth. This relentless push of false narratives underscores their desperation and willingness to deceive the American public.
