Shortly before the 2020 election, Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a sensational, anonymously-sourced rumor that then-President Donald Trump had referred to soldiers interred at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery as “suckers” and “losers.” In response, 25 people — 14 of whom were with the president in France — went on the record to call the story a hoax and debunk its claims.

One election cycle later, history is repeating itself.

Two weeks before Election Day, with Trump on the upswing and all the “joy” vanished from the Kamala Harris campaign, Goldberg has once again found anonymous sources to accuse Trump of a smorgasbord of outlandish comments, including a negative remark about a murdered Army soldier. And once again, multiple and credible on-the-record denials immediately undermined the story.

Goldberg’s hatchet job begins with a retelling of Trump’s interactions with the family of murdered Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén, interactions which were so respectful and personal that even Goldberg couldn’t make them sound anything but gracious. Then, Goldberg claims — without citing a source — that Trump later angrily refused to pay Guillén’s funeral expenses, saying “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f-cking Mexican.”

As the piece continues, Goldberg (again, without naming his sources) claims Trump wished for “the kind of generals that Hitler had.” Not until paragraph 24 does Goldberg even kind of attribute any accusations to a named source, citing claims in a book written about Trump that allege the president once asked his former Chief of Staff John Kelly,

The outlandish hit piece on Donald Trump published this week by Jeffery Goldberg at The Atlantic, which was immediately denied on the record by all the people who were in the room with Trump, isn’t just a shoddy smear that would never have passed muster in a newsroom 20 years ago.

It’s more than that. It’s part of a larger psy-op to justify mass post-election violence if Trump wins in November, to signal activists to reject the results of the election, to divide the military, and to coax an insurgency out of the radical left-wing base of the Democratic Party and unleash it on American cities.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ shocking remarks Wednesday on the steps of the Naval Observatory should be understood in this light. Citing comments quoted in The Atlantic from former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, Harris explicitly compared Trump to Hitler and claimed that if elected he will rule as a dictator and unleash the military on his domestic political opponents.

“He does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution, he wants a military that is loyal to him,” she said. “He wants a military that is loyal to him personally. One that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.”

Harris went on to call Trump a fascist, claim he would be a dictator on day one, and repeat a line she’s been using often

After spending four years spearheading an administration that’s injected Marxist ideology into the military, Kamala Harris is now accusing Donald Trump of wanting to hijack the U.S. armed forces for his own political gain.

In an impromptu speech at the Naval Observatory on Wednesday, the vice president outlandishly claimed that Trump once “said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had.” She also baselessly contended the former president “does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution,” but one “that is loyal to him.”

The unfounded assertions seemingly stem from a recently published Atlantic piece authored by misinformation trafficker Jeffrey Goldberg. Known for deploying the debunked “suckers” and “losers” hoax against Trump before the 2020 election, Goldberg’s new article cites anonymous sources who supposedly claim Trump disparaged a deceased service member and that he said he “need[s] the kind of generals that Hitler had” during his time as president.

Numerous former Trump administration officials and the deceased soldier’s sister — who said she voted for Trump this week — have since publicly denounced Goldberg’s smear job as completely false. But truth is of little concern to Harris, who gleefully weaponized the obvious pre-Election Day hit piece to paint Trump as a wannabe-dictator seeking to overthrow the military for personal gain.

Trump “wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the