Trump campaign demands Biden pull attack ad that’s full of fake news

[Andy Meek]

• The presidential campaign of Joe Biden wasted no time in turning the revelations from a viral Atlantic article about Donald Trump and derogatory comments he reportedly made about military service members into a devastating campaign ad.
• The Trump campaign has sent its lawyers after the Biden campaign, demanding in a cease-and-desist letter that the ad stop running.
• Trump representatives claim the ad is based on a "fake story," and that the president never said any of the comments attributed to him in the Atlantic article.

As soon as that news story from The Atlantic about derogatory comments President Donald Trump reportedly made about some military service members started going viral earlier this month, you could predict at least one outcome that was guaranteed to happen next. The Biden campaign turned the news story -- quoting anonymous sources who said Trump has disparaged the intelligence of service members, in addition to wanting to keep wounded soldiers out of parades -- into a devastating campaign ad.

The article that was published by The Atlantic was written by Jeffrey Goldberg, and it was titled "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers.'" Among the anecdotes the article recounts is this exchange between Trump and his staff after Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain died in August of 2018: "Trump told his senior staff, according to three sources with direct knowledge of this event, 'We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,' and he became furious, according to witnesses, when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. 'What the [expletive] are we doing that for? Guy was a [expletive] loser,' the president told aides."

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