Iran Press/ America: The Atlantic said it had spoken to four people with first-hand knowledge of the discussion about the cemetery visit, while the Associated Press news agency said a senior defense department official had confirmed some of the remarks, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense official said Trump made the comments as he declined to visit the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of 10 November 2018.
Staffers from the National Security Council and the Secret Service told Trump that rainy weather made helicopter travel to the cemetery risky, but they could drive there. Trump responded by saying he didn’t want to visit the cemetery because it was “filled with losers”, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
In a separate conversation, it is alleged that the Trump-branded US marines who lost their lives at the Battle of Belleau Wood in the First World War as "suckers".
However, Trump has insisted the claims are "totally false".
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