Right on Schedule, the Atlantic Scum of the Earth Weigh in on Trump
You’re aware that Steve Jobs’ widow, a crazed leftist named Lauren Powell Jobs, is the owner of the Atlantic, are you not?
Mrs. Jobs, a San Francisco Democrat and multi-million-dollar donor to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, props up that venerable rag as a vanity project so that the market can’t kill it as it so desperately wants to. Nobody reads the Atlantic anymore, other than perhaps a few unhinged leftists like its owner.
Which is not to say that the Atlantic is altogether irrelevant as it should be.
Here and there, all the worst, most salacious, obviously untrue, and hardcore partisan attacks on Republicans that other “mainstream” media organs pass on will tend to appear there. And that has happened again, which we’ll get to in a minute.
The Atlantic is fronted by a hack named Jeffrey Goldberg, a former police beat reporter for the Washington Post who worked his way into his current job by sucking up to powerful Democrats like Barack Obama.
Which doesn’t make Goldberg remarkable. What does make him remarkable is the lengths he will go to in order to trash Republicans, and Donald Trump in particular.
In 2020, Goldberg ran a garbage article that accused Trump of cancelling a 2018 visit to a cemetery in France where American World War I soldiers are buried, and Trump supposedly said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”
This is according to the Atlantic, which used an unnamed source for the article.
No less than 19 people from Trump’s staff went on the record to refute Goldberg’s smear, and that should have resulted in some staff changes atop the Atlantic. Did that happen? Of course not. Instead, PBS, funded by your tax dollars, gave him their Washington Week show, which is now branded with the Atlantic as an “editorial partner.”
We’re $36 trillion in debt, so maybe there’s no more money for PBS. Ask Mrs. Jobs if she’d like to buy that shop as well; we probably wouldn’t notice an ideological difference in the editorial stance.
Anyway, Goldberg is at it again. The Atlantic is now running with another smear of Trump, this one starring the disgruntled former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, perhaps the most disappointing high official of the U.S. government since Benedict Arnold. Kelly, a former Marine general who left Trump’s employ after a tenure filled with rancor and questionable loyalty, has been trashing the former president ever since. Kelly “confirmed” Goldberg’s “suckers and losers” smear last year, for example, though he was not in the room when those offending statements were supposedly made.
For the most part, nobody really listens to John Kelly anymore.
But in the five and a half years since leaving the White House, Kelly had never made this accusation until now:
Retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as White House chief of staff in the Trump administration, said former President Trump praised Adolf Hitler’s generals for their loyalty in a new interview in The Atlantic on Tuesday.
In the interview with editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Kelly affirmed reporting from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House,” which quoted Trump asking Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?”
According to Goldberg’s account of Baker and Glasser’s reporting, Kelly responded by explaining to Trump that the German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off,” but Trump reportedly was not swayed by the correction.
As October Surprises go, this isn’t much of a bombshell. Swamp disloyalty to Trump is hardly news; we’ve seen so many attacks made on him by Washington usual-suspects who spent time in his administration only to become ruling-elite parrots that it’s essentially a joke at this point. It’s an even bigger joke that this came from Goldberg, which is a dead giveaway of its quality or lack thereof.
There is no journalist at any senior level of US corporate media who lies more frequently, casually, and shamelessly than @JeffreyGoldberg. He's been doing it non-stop for 20 years.
And @TheAtlantic, which he edits, is owned by Kamala mega-donor Laurene Powell Jobs: https://t.co/9KmDNctPVC
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 22, 2024
Kelly even wrote a book about his time working for Trump and never even mentioned this supposed bombshell. Isn’t that interesting? Is Kelly’s memory as bad as Joe Biden’s, and that’s why he didn’t include Trump’s alleged affinity for Nazi generals? Or did he just not think it was a big enough deal to talk about it until Jeffrey Goldberg came begging for more Trump dirt?
And it isn’t really all that hard to imagine Donald Trump, who wasn’t even on speaking terms with Kelly by the end of 2018, when he was dispatched and Mick Mulvaney was brought in as the acting chief of staff, getting exasperated enough with Kelly that he’d cast about for an example of loyalty and wonder where his Erwin Rommel might be.
Who cares? This idiot cares:
And of course another idiot had to jump on the Atlantic’s bandwagon, only to get slapped down by somebody else with a much different view of John Kelly’s credibility.
Vice President Harris is a fraud. I was in the White House at a senior level much longer than General Kelly. He is complicit in this fraud and has lied to the American people. His lies, as well as John Bolton's, are a disservice to Nation at this critical time. So are the VP's. https://t.co/2b77pMsVVl
— Keith Kellogg (@generalkellogg) October 23, 2024
The “suckers and losers” smear just had a lot more form and flair to it, if not much more substance.
But it gets even worse at the Atlantic, because Kelly’s sudden uncovering of long-repressed Trump memories was hardly the most egregious new smear Goldberg dragged out.
I’ll let Ace of Spades put this one together for you:
The claim is that Trump offered to pay for the funeral of a Mexican-American servicemember killed by Biden’s incompetence, and then, for some reason, when no one could hear him (except the well-placed Mystery Source), he said “I’m not paying $60,000 to bury a Mexican, don’t pay that bill.”
Or words to that effect. I’m not going to bother getting the “quote” right because it’s fictional in the first place. It’s like arguing about whether Darth Vader said “Luke, I am your father” or “No, I am your father.” It doesn’t matter. It’s not real. (Though, as far as the correct fictional quote, it’s the latter one. That made-up fictional quote is more important than this one.)
The sister and family and attorney of the dead servicemember say it’s a lie and are telling the Marxist Insurrection Media to stop lying and using the dead woman as a prop.
And check out the lame “community note” added by a Kamala Harris partisan — well, there’s no proof he did pay for the funeral.
I think the sister would mention it if he didn’t. Don’t you?
The sister of the dead serviceman was less than impressed with Jeffrey Goldberg, indeed…
Wow.
I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics- hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today. https://t.co/o8cDrKOKBV— Mayra Guillen (@mguilen_) October 22, 2024
Natalie Khawam, the attorney for the family, dropped a thermobaric bomb on Goldberg over the “don’t bury the Mexican” smear:
After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story. More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder… for cheap political gain.
I would like to also point out that the timing of this “story” is quite suspicious, as this supposed conversation that Trump had would have occurred over 4 years ago! Why a story about it now?!
As everyone knows, not only did Trump support our military, he also invited my clients to the Oval Office and supported the I Am Vanessa Guillen bill too.
I’m grateful we were successful in getting bipartisan support of the I Am Vanessa Guillen Act, and because of everyone’s hard work and efforts our service members now have more protections and rights while serving our country.
And the former White House chief of communications also weighed in. Here’s what he had to say:
On the left: I sent Atlantic a comment saying President Trump “absolutely did not say that,” referring to the alleged comments about Ms. Guillen they printed.
On the right: Atlantic translated that comment to “didn’t hear Trump say it.”
Treat this dishonest piece accordingly. pic.twitter.com/pM1o1c9fEm
— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) October 22, 2024
The Democrat Propaganda Press, also known as the legacy corporate media, didn’t take Ben Williamson’s advice. Instead, they blew up this Atlantic smear early this week in hopes of resuscitating the flagging Kamala Harris campaign. But there is no particular evidence that anybody cares anymore. Why should they? We already know these people are in the tank for Harris and her party and that they give not a fig about their own credibility.
To watch Jen Rubin, the unhinged psychotic once trotted out as a “conservative” pundit by the Washington Post, screeching about why this isn’t the killer app of the 2024 race is both delicious schadenfreude and highly instructive to where we are in America.
Probably because most folks see this is a desperate tactic being played by the scum of the earth in a panicked effort to retain power, Jen.
There’s that old quote attributed to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that applies in this case to the Propaganda Press as well as the regime it serves…
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
What might be different in modern-day America compared to the Soviet Union of Solzhenitsyn’s time is that we still have the individual power to resist the lie in this country.
That and the media mob willing to join claws with Goldberg to spread his smears are simply nowhere near as competent at propaganda as the Soviets were.
Nice try, fellas.
READ MORE:
Trump, McDonald’s, and the Lost Art of Noblesse Oblige
Kamala Harris Flunked the Job Interviews
The post Right on Schedule, the <i>Atlantic</i> Scum of the Earth Weigh in on Trump appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.