With just two weeks until Election Day, Left-leaning magazine The Atlantic published an article on Tuesday accusing former President Donald Trump of disparaging a slain U.S. Army private in 2020.
The Atlantic story, which was written by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, claims that Trump “became angry” when he learned how much the funeral bill was for soldier Vanessa Guillén. The deceased 20-year-old, a daughter of Mexican immigrants, was murdered by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood in April 2020. After her death, Trump spoke to her family at the White House and offered to cover the cost of her funeral, Fox News reported.
Goldberg cites “attendees” and “contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant” to report that Trump fumed when he learned how much the family billed the White House for the funeral. According to The Atlantic, Trump responded by telling his staff, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f***ing Mexican!” Goldberg then wrote that the then-president ordered his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, not to pay the bill.
Natalie Khawam, the Guillén family’s attorney, responded to The Atlantic’s story on X, accusing Goldberg of lying and exploiting her clients “for cheap political gain.”
“After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story,” Khawam wrote. “More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder… for cheap political gain.” […]
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