The latest anti-Trump propaganda hyperventilated by the media and the Biden campaign is the claim in The Atlantic that the President made disrespectful remarks about World War II dead while in France for the 75th anniversary. The “sources” of the story are, as always, unnamed, while those who were with Trump and call the story a lie, include his bitter enemy John Bolton. But the author of the Atlantic story is the proof it’s fake, as Glenn Greenwald detailed in The Intercept on Sept. 4. The author is Jeffrey Goldberg who in 2002-03, Greenwald reminds, was the number-one media spreader of the lie that Saddam Hussein worked with al-Qaeda.
Greenwald cites a Twitter message quoting from a March 24, 2002 edition of “Meet the Press”; “Tim Russert: There’s an article in the New Yorker magazine by Jeffrey Goldberg which connects Iraq and Saddam Hussein with al-Qaeda. What can you tell me about it?
“Vice President Dick Cheney: I’ve read the article. It’s a devastating article, I thought.”
Convincing at least some of the American public that Saddam Hussein was somehow connected to the 9/11 attacks, was the crucial lie in preparing them to tolerate Cheney’s and Bush’s war on Iraq.
