Steve Krakauer
"Be skeptical of the "losers and suckers" consensus narrative - and others like it when it comes to Trump and the press"Does the media really have a dearth of unimpeachable direct hits on Trump that it has to stoop to this nonsense? Surely not! And yet — they never seem to miss an opportunity to be exposed as the losers and suckers who keep falling into the trap of emotion over facts, laziness over nuance.
"On Wednesday afternoon, Joy Behar was on “The View” talking about how former President Donald Trump “called American military members who died in wars ‘losers and suckers.’” The next night, “The Daily Show” co-host Desi Lydic made an almost identical comment. It was the same a few weeks ago on MSNBC, when Nicolle Wallace mentioned that phrase too, in a similar context, as part of one of her lengthy anti-Trump screeds.
"The “loser and suckers” line has been around for years — and I’ll trace the genesis of it below. It has become simply conventional wisdom of the consensus elite at this point — just a bullet point for the corporate press when listing the long litany of Trump’s worst moments. Right up there with “very fine people” and “inject bleach” — which is actually the point. Those phrases that have become ubiquitous when those on the political or journalistic left are looking to highlight the severity of Trump’s evil… are actually outright false. The “losers and suckers” line exists in maybe a bit more of a gray area — a blend between innuendo and urban legend, perhaps. But certainly not something that rises to the level of “factual.”
"And it’s important to dig into the circumstances of this phrase, because we know this will become a major talking point as we approach the final seven months ahead of Election Day this year. It has been a part of President Biden’s usual campaign speeches, when he makes them. And “Doctor” Jill Biden has repeated the line too. "But it’s not just the repeating of the line that has become a point pushed by the Biden campaign — and, by extension, the Acela Media. It is the insinuation that this phrase uttered by Trump had been “confirmed.” That’s the framing pushed by the Biden campaign’s active X campaign last month — which was republished by a prominent #Resistance account, and reposted by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: . . ."
"The White House blamed the canceled cemetery visit on poor weather. Responding to The Atlantic's reporting, Trump said the accusation was "a disgraceful situation" by a "terrible magazine."
"Trump strongly denied calling fallen soldiers "losers" and "suckers." Speaking to reporters on Sept. 3, 2020, upon returning from a campaign rally to Washington, D.C., just after the report came out, Trump said: "I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more. No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?"
"Just days later, Zach Fuentes, a former White House aide who left the administration in early 2019 and was with the president on the Paris trip and presumably near him during the in-question conversations about the cemetery visit, stood up for Trump in an interview with Breitbart." . . .
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