The Atlantic’s newsroom remained in the duck-and-cover position one day after it issued a sensational story claiming that former President Donald Trump mocked a soldier killed on American soil, with family members and veteran journalists coming forward to rip the liberal rag for producing fake news.
On Tuesday, The Atlantic reported that President Trump, in April 2020, called the family of 20-year-old Vanessa Guillén, a U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas who lost her life at the hands of a mentally ill soldier on base. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Guillén’s body was discovered two days after the attack at which point the outlet claims President Trump called her family and offered to defray the cost of her funeral. Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, writes that President Trump, upon receiving the full bill, exclaimed, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f****** Mexican!” and ordered former chief of staff John Kelly to not pay it. That account was disputed by Guillén’s sister as well as another White House reporter there during her visit.
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“I was in the Oval Office (pool correspondent) the day Vanessa Guillen’s family visited. The meeting