Certain charges are serious enough that when you hear about them, you immediately launch an investigation. The Atlantic is reporting that an unnamed administration official was with the President when he decided against visiting a cemetery of fallen World War I veterans. "Why should I go to that cemetery? It is filled with losers," Trump reportedly said.
In a separate conversation, Trump reportedly referred to the marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as "suckers" for getting killed. And, it is reported that Trump asked his aides, "Who were the good guys in this war?" and didn't understand why the U.S. had chosen to side with the Allies.
The Atlantic didn't specify its sources, only saying they were, "four people with firsthand knowledge."
These are are serious charges. You don't just leave them there as speculation. If a president called our fallen dead, "losers" and "suckers" for getting killed, yes, that is something we should look into.If we are not demanding of ourselves to find the truth, what have we become? Sometimes, I wonder if our country hasn't become somewhat dysfunctional, for it seems in the old day, an investigation would have been launched immediately. The four aides should be subpoenaed. What they are saying should not be left to hide behind anonymity, unless they plead the Fifth.
Do we hear any voices calling on the four to come forth and place their names behind what they are saying? That is the larger part of what needs to be done. Beyond that, an investigation might find other witnesses, and could verify if the four were, indeed and in fact, in the presence of the president at the time when he reportedly said those things.
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