Did Democrats collude with Atlantic on their fake scandal?

Clarice Feldman:

The Atlantic does it Again

The Atlantic published a tale based on anonymous sources that the President referred to veterans who had lost their lives in battles as “ suckers” and losers” and refused to go to a French cemetery honoring WWI American veterans because he feared his hair would be mussed. The magazine is now majority owned by Steve Jobs’s very rich widow, Laurene, who contributed $500,000 to the Biden campaign and who seems to have reshaped it as the Biden sleazy propaganda arm .

It previously published a pro-defund the police article -- supposedly a firsthand account of witnessing a police officer shoot an unarmed youngster for ignoring a basketball sign-in sheet -- which, as the extensive Federalist investigation showed, was utter poppycock. 

While the Atlantic was the ringleader, the usual media wizards copied and pasted the unsupported claims by Jeffrey Goldberg and megaphoned them,

Sean Davis of the Federalist noted the series of fake scandals  promoted by the same journalists “who bought and peddled the Iraq WMD hoax, the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax, the Russian collusion hoax, the Covington Kids hoax, the Kavanaugh hoax, and the latest Atlantic hoax.” Immediately a “Vote Vets” slickly produced ad repeating the charges hit the airwaves

Real reporters took a closer look. Mollie Hemingway said the fast pickup was suspicious:

@MZHemingway
Replying to @tomselliott
Either that is a stunning and record-setting turn-around for a genuine ad and resulting ad buy ... or a media group is blatantly collaborating with a political campaign operation

J.E. Dyer  rather conclusively nailed the blatant collaboration:

A mere 24 hours after the story was published at Atlantic, the Democratic fundraising outfit ActBlue is soliciting donations via the façade of the leftist group VoteVets.  (In fact, the tweet with the VoteVets video was posted at 9:04 AM EDT on 4 September, substantially less than 24 hours after the first archive of the Atlantic post at Wayback, which shows an Atlantic website time stamp of 5:32 PM EDT on 3 September.) [snip] This video was quite obviously not just thrown together, uncued (and overnight!), in the space of less than 24 hours.  This had to be in the works beforehand.

Which means, from the sentient being’s analytical perspective that a bunch of people other than Jeffrey Goldberg knew what he was going to publish on 3 September 2020.  Not just any people either, but a network of PAC activists and fundraisers for the Democratic Party.

As regards Mr. Goldberg and his story, there seem to be two likely scenarios.  One is that he shared the findings of his diligent journalism with Democratic operatives before he published the story.

The other is that this was a packaged story supplied to him by one of the leftist media “war rooms” that now concoct so much of the outline copy, and so many of the talking points, for the visible front-men and women of the mainstream media.

Hovering his cursor over the video clip he saw a notice “Visit secure.actblue.com“ Act Blue, of course, is a Democrat fundraising arm.

It’s pure nonsense from the party to the “media war room.” 

Not a single person with the President on that trip, not even John Bolton, no ally of the President, confirms this story on the record, and not a single anonymous source has come forward to confirm it either.

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There is more.

Democrats have been manufacturing fake scandals as a political tool for some time and this one fits their pattern.  They are a party that will do unethical things to achieve their objectives.  The Kavanaugh hearing is a recent example.

The story is already falling apart because the facts just do not support it.  It appears to be manufacturing to some extent from Trump's criticism of the Vietnam war which was botched by the Democrats at the cost of thousands of lives.  The Democrats who devised the war plan knew that the restrictions they placed on the troops would not allow a victory, but they feared the political consequences of not fighting.  They waited until Nixon was in office to force the retreat and they refused to allow a bombing campaign to stop the North's final assault.

When you consider their handling of the war against radical Islam their incompetence was hard to hide.  The Obama-Biden administration's precipitous retreat from Iraq opened the way for an ISIS genocide in Iraq and Syria and the amateurs in the Obama White House ignore the military advice on how to defeat ISIS and it took Trump to take the gloves off and allow the military to defeat them.  The Obama-Biden surge in Afghanistan was also ineffective because Obama idiotically told the enemy when the troops would be withdrawn.  Then there was the strategic blunder of toppling the Libyan regime with no plan to secure the country's weapons which fell into the heads of terrorists while leaving an unstable government behind.  They also were responsible for the Benghazi debacle.

The media ignored these scandals and is now manufacturing a scandal to put those responsible for the real military scandals back in office.

Republicans believe that the story was planted by the Biden campaign to reduce military voting.

A man who was comforted by Trump when his wife was killed in action against ISIS says:

Trump came to Dover after my wife was killed fighting ISIS. He absolutely respects our service.

I'd never met a president before Donald Trump. His empathy and thoughtfulness on one of the worst days of my life won my gratitude.

This story is well worth reading because it shows just how wrong the Atlantic story is.