{"id":27732,"date":"2020-09-07T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27732"},"modified":"2020-09-07T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:30:29","slug":"huge-fake-news-alert-deep-state-conspired-with-the-mainstream-media-to-concoct-patently-false-atlantic-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27732","title":{"rendered":"HUGE FAKE NEWS ALERT! <i>Deep State<\/i> Conspired with the Mainstream Media to Concoct Patently False &#8216;Atlantic&#8217; Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Top John Kelly Aid Denies Trump &#8216;Losers&#8217; Story, Cryptically Suggests Atlantic &#8216;Conflating Comments Made The Day After&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>A top aid to former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has become the latest former Trump administration official to\u00a0<strong>deny\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s hit-piece claiming President Trump called soldiers &#8216;losers&#8217; and &#8216;suckers.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=XwpeKG5s\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=XwpeKG5s\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=xPPK02Cs 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=xPPK02Cs 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=xPPK02Cs 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=xPPK02Cs 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=xPPK02Cs 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg?itok=XwpeKG5s 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/083117donaldtrump002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"734f68e5-7756-4976-9262-af51eabcbfd7\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/07\/exclusive-zach-fuentes-top-aide-to-john-kelly-denies-atlantic-story-about-trump\/\"><em>Breitbart News<\/em><\/a>, former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Zach Fuentes suggested that Kelly would never have stood by while Trump disparaged fallen Marines, and that the paper may have conflated comments Trump made the following day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>You can put me on record denying that I spoke with The Atlantic<\/strong>,&#8221; Fuentes said on Monday. &#8220;I don\u2019t know who the sources are. I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather.\u00a0<strong>Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1303041075406233600&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Ftop-john-kelly-aid-denies-trump-losers-story-cryptically-suggests-atlantic-conflating&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1303041075406233600\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Fuentes added that he thinks\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s sources &#8220;are unlikely first hand accounts,&#8221; adding &#8220;<strong>They are conflating those people from something the day after.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fuentes also told Breitbart News\u00a0<strong>he is upset that Trump has been speaking negatively about Kelly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a separate note,\u00a0<strong>I am disappointed to see POTUS talk about General Kelly so negatively in the middle of being accused of saying negative things about the military<\/strong>,\u201d Fuentes said. \u201cIf anyone understands selfless service, it\u2019s General Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fact that Fuentes\u2014Kelly\u2019s closest ally\u2014is now publicly denying the report from\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0is a monstrous strike against the credibility of the report<\/strong>. Several Trump critics, including former National Security Adviser John Bolton, have also denied this happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Every person who was allegedly in the room who has spoken up so far has denied the account of what happened.<\/strong>\u00a0Fuentes\u2019 denial, reported here exclusive on Breitbart News first, deals another strike against\u00a0<em>The Atlantic\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0credibility. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/07\/exclusive-zach-fuentes-top-aide-to-john-kelly-denies-atlantic-story-about-trump\/\"><em>Breitbart News<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I also think any President, regardless of political affiliation, deserves to have candid and private conversations with trusted advisors,&#8221; Fuentes continued. &#8220;If the President decides to talk about it, that is his right, but generally, I don\u2019t think it is my place to divulge private conversations I\u2019ve had with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words &#8211; Kelly and his top aide, neither of whom are known for being MAGA types, are supporting the president over\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg conceded that they may have gotten part of the story wrong<\/strong>. Read about that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/07\/atlantic-editor-concedes-central-claim-of-trump-hit-piece-could-be-wrong\/#.X1ZZGckwxac.twitter\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<em>The Federalist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/top-john-kelly-aid-denies-trump-losers-story-cryptically-suggests-atlantic-conflating\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/top-john-kelly-aid-denies-trump-losers-story-cryptically-suggests-atlantic-conflating<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"extras-section\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top John Kelly Aid Denies Trump &#8216;Losers&#8217; Story, Cryptically Suggests Atlantic &#8216;Conflating Comments Made The Day After&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}