Media Icon The Atlantic Caught Fabricating Trump “Bury a F Mexican” Story, Media Sees No Misinformation or Election Interference
It is not just an Atlantic reporter, but the Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic, one of the oldest and most prestigious magazines in the US. The lie is not just a little lie or a slight mix-up in fact…
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It is not just an Atlantic reporter, but the Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic, one of the oldest and most prestigious magazines in the US. The lie is not just a little lie or a slight mix-up in facts, but a brazen libel and “misinformation” aimed at swaying a presidential election just two weeks away.
Former Trump Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows has accused Atlantic Editor-in-Chief and author of a recent hit piece on Trump,
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” of not just twisting Trump’s words, or taking them out of context, but flat-out making them up. The words, had they been uttered, would constitute a grievous affront to every American soldier. The problem is, they weren’t uttered. Meadows, who Goldberg says was in the room, has denied the exchange ever took place.
Now were such words ever to be actually said by an American politician, Americans would not know if it were true. So racists can say, “Remember The Atlantic in 2024. I never said that.” At some point, civic discussion, the alternative to civil war, depends on some semblance of regard for the truth. Not much perhaps. But somewhere, somehow.
Goldberg says Trump said, according to anonymous “people present”:
“‘It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f‑‑‑‑‑‑ Mexican! He later turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: ‘Don’t pay it!’”
Meadows said in a tweet after the article came out that Trump was nothing but gracious and kind in speaking of the family. Likewise, Spc. Guillen’s sister has weighed in, saying that Trump “did nothing but show respect” to her family, that she abhorred Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Goldberg “exploiting” her sister’s death, and that as she wrote, she had just voted for Trump.
The lie is reminiscent of the testimony of former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, solicited by Liz Cheney to the J6 committee, in which Hutchinson told the committee that Trump lunged for the steering wheel of his limo on J6. Hutchison said:
“The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, ‘Sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we’re going back to the West Wing we’re not going to the Capitol. “
Later the
Secret Service driver of the limo testified under oath that the incident never happened. One might get the impression that truth means nothing to these people, ever eager to call out Trump’s “lies.”
Hutchinson had made her testimony dripping with sincerity and with an absolutely staright face. What are these people?
This time, however, the lie has been published in hard copy and distributed to the Atlantic’s over 1 million subsribers, who will never read a retraction before the election.
The full pertinent passage from
the Goldberg article, now buried behind a pay wall, goes as follows:
” At a certain point, according to two people present at the meeting, Trump asked, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?”
According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.
Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a ******* Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “******* people, trying to rip me off.””
"The Mark Meadows in the article who allegedly received the order from Trump “Don’t pay it” says in no uncertain terms that t
he episode never happened.
Below: Tweet from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows denying that Goldberg story attributed to anonymus sources is false
Below: Tweet from sister of US Army Spec. Vanessa Guillen, expressing support for Trump and criticism of article by Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-n-Chief of The Atlantic