Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News on May 3.

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Donald Trump has called for the dismissal of a journalist from the popular conservative channel Fox News, who partially confirmed her remarks "denigrating" dead American soldiers, originally reported in

The Atlantic

magazine

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“Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting.

She didn't even call us for a reaction.

Fox News is more what it was, ”tweeted late Friday evening the US president, raised against the channel - a time his media of choice - and their reporter in charge of issues related to national security, Jennifer Griffin.

Jennifer Griffin of Fox News Did Not Confirm 'Most Salacious' Part of Atlantic Story https://t.co/rUpbSWhHac via @BreitbartNews All refuted by many witnesses.

Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting.

Never even called us for comment.

@FoxNews is gone!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2020

The latter, respected in journalistic and political circles in Washington, sought to confirm the article in The Atlantic, which explained that Donald Trump had called American soldiers who died during World War I "morons" and "losers".

High-ranking confirmations

The article, published Thursday, affirms that during a visit to France in November 2018, Donald Trump would have called the 1,541 American soldiers who died during the battle of the Belleau wood of “morons”, adding that the cemetery where they rest is filled with "Losers".

The Fox News reporter said that, according to a former senior official in the Trump administration, the US president said of the Vietnam War: “It was a stupid war.

Anyone who's been there is a jerk.

The Paris affair

She also quotes two former senior officials of the Trump administration who confirm that the Republican did not want to drive to the cemetery near Paris to pay homage to them.

The affair received strong media coverage in the United States.

The president, his wife Melania and many current and former officials of the White House have denied the veracity of these words.

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