![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/5f55173985f54066c476673e.jpg\")
(L) Donald Trump \u00a9 Reuters\/Leah Millis; (R) Laurene Powell Jobs \u00a9 Reuters\/Gus Ruelas<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
RT.com<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has tweeted out a call to confront Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire owner of the Atlantic magazine, which accused him of making nasty comments about the US military. She is a megadonor of Trump\u2019s rival, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, holds a 70 percent stake in the Atlantic, which she acquired in 2017. She has also kicked a share of her $21 billion fortune toward Democratic campaigns. After Joe Biden secured the party\u2019s nomination, she cut the former vice president a check for at least $500,000, according to a New York Times report in July.<\/p>\n
These facts have triggered accusations from a number of conservative pundits that the Atlantic is a paid-for platform to smear Trump, and the president himself ripped into the magazine and its owner on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSteve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n Jeffrey Goldberg is the Atlantic editor-in-chief, with whom Powell Jobs has reportedly had the closest contact in the outlet, apart from its co-owner David Bradley, who now own the minority share at the magazine.Goldberg \u2013 a former prison guard in the Israel Defense Forces \u2013 has written politically-motivated stories before. In 2002, he talked up Saddam Hussein\u2019s supposed chemical threat to raise support for the invasion of Iraq. He described the Kurdish population of northern Iraq as hungering for US intervention, saying that George Bush\u2019s \u2018Axis of Evil\u2019 speech\u00a0\u201celectrified\u201d<\/em>\u00a0them. Seven years after the disastrous war in Iraq began, Goldberg addressed his critics in a sarcastic post in The Atlantic, titled\u00a0\u201cYes, yes, I know I started the Iraq War.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Goldberg\u2019s anonymously-sourced story from Thursday claimed that Trump cancelled a visit to a US cemetery in France in 2018 because it was\u00a0\u201cfilled with losers.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Some other outlets backed the narrative, though none of their sources would go on the record to corroborate the story publicly. The Trump administration has furiously denied the claim. Even Trump\u2019s former national security adviser John Bolton, who is now a bitter opponent of the president, said he didn\u2019t hear him make those remarks.<\/p>\n Trump has now implied that the Atlantic owner Powell Jobs\u2019 political leanings may have been behind the bombshell report, and has even suggested that his supporters should confront her about it.\u00a0\u201cCall her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he tweeted.<\/p>\n Trump has regularly dismissed negative stories about him as\u00a0\u201cfake news.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0However, reinforcing his narrative is the fact that the Atlantic\u2019s owner had seemingly admitted to using the magazine to push a political agenda. In a recorded discussion with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden\u2019s running mate, Powell Jobs once said they must create a\u00a0\u201ccultural narrative\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 apparently, not to be outdone by their conservative rivals \u2013 and\u00a0\u201cenhance and amplify\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the political causes she funds.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\n