In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

Trump said he did not want to visit the graves of American soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris because, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.

Kelly concluded, “God help us.”

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    This doesn’t matter. His supporters won’t hear about it. And if they did, they won’t believe it.

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      And if they did believe it, they would resort to the old faithful “I am better than [group of people] so I feel good about myself!”

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      I’d like to know just how many people commenting in this thread have actually read the whole article or just OP’s quote.

      Point being, a lot of people claim to care but not enough to actually invest five minutes to read into something. I can imagine some people saying, “I don’t need to read the article. I already know what it’s going to say based on the headline and I’m going to comment here and tell others what I think”.

      That has nothing to do with your politics other than our politics are now based on headlines and not full journalistic reports.

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        What’s your point here? The summary OP posted does a good job summarizing the article. It feels like you’re trying to imply the article is biased without saying that.

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          I’m not commenting on the article - it’s as a fantastic read that everyone should take five minutes to review.

          I’m saying, don’t call out one group of people for not caring about the facts when no one cares about the facts anymore. Everyone reacts to headlines based on their own biases.

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            I don’t know, I did read the article. And it’s a few times worse than the quote above implies