When Pete Buttigieg was asked by Fox News on September 4 why he believed that The Atlantic’s report that President Donald Trump disparaged fallen troops was true, he cited the network’s own reporting.
Getty When Pete Buttigieg was asked by Fox News on September 4 why he believed that The Atlantic’s report that President Donald Trump disparaged fallen troops was true, he cited the network’s own reporting. When Pete Buttigieg was asked by Fox News on September 4 why he believed that The Atlantic’s report that President Donald Trump disparaged fallen troops was true, he cited the network’s own reporting. Trump has denied calling America’s war dead “losers” and “suckers” when he went to France in 2018, as The Atlantic claimed. Buttigieg–the former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and candidate for the presidential Democratic nomination–is a veteran of the Afghanistan war. “This is a pattern we have seen from the president throughout his life. When he was a young man, he faked a disability so he could avoid serving when it was his turn,” Buttigieg said. “We watched him refer to prisoners of war like John McCain as losers with our own eyes.” For those who believed the president, Buttigieg urged viewers to take to Google. “If you are watching this, home here’s how willing Donald Trump is to insult your intelligence,” he said. “Today he denied he ever called John McCain a loser.
