President Trump salutes as he stands with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a military honor guard carries the remains of Americans killed in Syria during a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Del., January 19, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
National Review: Jeffrey Goldberg Says Sources for Trump Military Remarks Refused to Go On Record to Avoid ‘Being Inundated with Angry Tweets’
The editor-in-chief of the Atlantic — who published a bombshell report Thursday night detailing disparaging remarks that President Trump allegedly made about dead American soldiers during a 2018 trip to France — said Friday that his sources refused to go on the record despite his best efforts because they were concerned about being publicly derided by the president.
“They don’t want to be inundated with angry tweets and all the rest. And we push hard, and that’s why you have to sort of do this reporting with even more belt-and-suspenders approach. You know, dotted i’s and crossed t’s and find multiple sources for it,” Jeffrey Goldberg told CNN’s Jim Sciutto when asked about his decision to publish the story without on the record sources.
“Each time, this is a judgment call, right? Does the public’s interest in needing this information outweigh the ambiguities or the difficulties of anonymous sourcing? Goldberg continued. “And in this case, I decided that I felt I knew this information well enough from high enough sources and multiple sources that I thought we should put it out.”
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WNU Editor: The author says the anonymous sources were ambiguous and that he needed to "put it together". "Put it together"?!?!?!? And the excuse that they are afraid of "angry tweets"?!?!?!? My gut is telling me that this is a bogus story, and done deliberately so.
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“Afraid of angry tweets’. The names being floated around are Kelly, Mattis and Bolton. Don’t have the name of the fourth guy.
This is becoming more pathetic by the minute.
Figures that every left wing pajama-boy suck-up jumps aboard this screed.
Haven’t we been here (many times) before?
My oh my! What a surprise! Maybe the accuser, should they exist, needs help changing his/her/it's address so those meanies won't send meany talk to he/her/it.
Maybe?
Any hungry lawyers out there?
Git sum!
“Afraid of angry tweets’. The names being floated around are Kelly, Mattis and Bolton. Don’t have the name of the fourth guy.
Bolton has come out and said it did not happen.
If Mattis and Kelly are afraid of mean tweets, they should never have been colonels or generals.
I call Bullshit. Goldberg is full of shit.
Unbelievable! Joe Biden Reads “End of Quote” After Reading His Social Security Speech Off a Teleprompter (Video)
Joe Biden Reads “End of Quote” After Reading His Social Security Speech Off a Teleprompter
Democrats are desperate. They will pay for my ANTIFA attacks.
Right. Pelosi gets caught without mask and suddenly "anonymous sources" say Trump eats babies and defecate on soldiers graves. Give me a break. Just vote out these Democrat ghoulish liars and Chinese sympathisers. Anyone, and I mean anyone, doing business with China better have a fcking good excuse for it.
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