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Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden's Staff Give First Question to Atlantic Reporter, Who Asks About Trump's 'Soul'
2020-09-05
[BREITBART] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
’s campaign kicked off a round of questions with the candidate Friday by selecting an Atlantic news hound who asked him to comment on President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s "soul and the life he leads."

Biden, who rarely answers questions from the press, opened the floor to questions immediately after his remarks on the August jobs report, which showed the U.S. economy added 1.4 million jobs in August.

He deferred to his staff to choose the news hounds who would be allowed to ask questions. The first news hound was Edward-Isaac Dovere of The Atlantic.

Dovere strode to the microphone and asked about an article in The Atlantic, published the night before, that claimed the president had referred to American soldiers who died in the First World War as "losers" and "suckers."

(The claims, based on anonymous sources, have been vigorously disputed by all those who were there — including former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who opposes Trump’s re-election.)

Dovere asked: "When you hear these remarks — ’suckers,’ ’losers,’ recoiling from amputees — what does it tell you about president Trump’s soul, and the life he leads?"

Biden, who had opened his presser referring to The Atlantic piece, resumed his attack based on the article, "if it’s true."

He cited Trump’s criticism of Sen. John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
(R-AZ) in 2015 as reason to believe that Trump had disparaged soldiers who had died defending their country.

The news hound followed up with a question about QAnon conspiracy theories, and invited Biden to address Trump supporters who might believe them.

Posted by:Fred

#12  The owner of the Atlantic is the widow of Steve Jobs and a major Biden supporter.

This was scripted before the piece was published.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-09-05 22:39  

#11  Local news presented this as absolute fact.

Dovere strode to the microphone and asked about an article in The Atlantic, published the night before, that claimed the president had referred to American soldiers who died in the First World War as "losers" and "suckers."

Even my wife, who is Trust but Verify, called like the card game champ, "Bullshit!", in front of the kids.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-09-05 20:03  

#10  Who still reads The Atlantic?

The Dallas Morning News, and no doubt, other media outlets. My lovely wife had read all about it before the paper arrived with the front-page story. "Even Fox News corroborated it", she said.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-09-05 16:10  

#9  Blue and Grey, my guess a reminder that it was formed after the civil war of National Guard units that had been on opposite sides. My grandmother told us a story from her grandmother describing how as a little girl her mother spoke of seeing the confederate troops coming back from Gettysburg passing the family farm in Maryland and how polite they were, gaunt scarecrows asking for food and water. My grandmother always used the term she got from her mother to describe the civil war “ the late unpleasantness”. My fear is it will lack even manners this time.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-09-05 12:05  

#8  ^ The 29th Infantry Division?
Posted by: Matt   2020-09-05 11:29  

#7  Or Gawd forbid, something else could happen.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-09-05 10:40  

#6  Who still reads The Atlantic? Got woke and became a joke
Posted by: Titus Whuting4096   2020-09-05 10:39  

#5  Given Trump's long history of respect and support for the military, you have to wonder just how stupid the Atlantic thinks we are.
Posted by: Tom   2020-09-05 10:18  

#4  The Atlantic is trash and a part of the Dem media smear job. Trump's soul? Worry about your own soul.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-09-05 10:10  

#3  People who want to believe it will believe it no matter how much debunking it gets. It's also a classic "you can't prove a negative."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-09-05 07:11  

#2  This is press scumbaggery of the worst sort. Its so obvious - and so easily disputed by peoplle who actuall give their names, instad of these "anonymous" sources.

This is the sort of thing that makes some people want to hang journalists from lampposts by their own entrails.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057   2020-09-05 03:13  

#1  This whole thing sounds liek a coordinated smear job, including VoteVets having a professionally produced ad with 6 god star families interviewed, ready to go on TV Friday Morning, and ads running Friday night.

I smell a setup. I think they got desperate and pulled their October suprise because Trump was pulling ahead, and Judicial Watch was breaking the story about Biden groping the girlfriends of his guards, and flashing females assigned to his security detail.

Funny how this was nowhere for 2 years then all of a sudden out come 4 "anonymous" sources, and all of a sudden Wapo and CNN "corroborate" them despite them being unnamed and anonymous.

This is the swamp at work, including that scumbag John Kelly, the EX-Marine who advocated for eternal war.


Posted by: Theager Borgia1057   2020-09-05 03:10  

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