“Exploiting my sister’s death for politics…”
By now, pretty much everyone knows that one of the loudest Trump-hating publications, The Atlantic, is alleging that Pres. Trump stated, ““It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican.”
According to The Atlantic, Trump supposedly made this comment after he promised the family of US Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén that he would help pay for funeral costs in the wake of Guillén’s murder by a fellow soldier at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Interestingly enough, Mayra Guillén, sister of the fallen soldier, openly hammered The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg for attempting to prostitute out the memory of her sister;
Wow.
I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics- hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today. https://t.co/o8cDrKOKBV— Mayra Guillen (@mguilen_) October 22, 2024
With less than two weeks before the presidential election (and Harris hemorrhaging Latino voters), some are wondering out loud the timing of this particular accusation.
As reported by Victor Nava of the New York Post (emphasis mine);
Natalie Khawam, an attorney for the Guillen family, accused the Atlantic editor of lying in the piece.
“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 on X.
“More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder … for cheap political gain,” she added.
Khawam called the “timing” of Goldberg’s report “quite suspicious.”
“[T]his supposed conversation that Trump had would have occurred over 4 years ago!” the attorney noted. “Why a story about it now?!”