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Trump trying to deny what @JeffreyGoldberg reported after making more than 20,000 false & misleading claims since becoming president and calling McCain a "loser" on the record is not credible. After four years, we know who Trump is.
I will say as well: My dad is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. It is hallowed ground, a vast city of the dead who fought to preserve this nation in wars dating back more than 100 years, as well as of the men who commanded them.
My dad was born in Dresden in 1918. He grew up in Mussolini's Italy, got beat up for opposing fascism while his father, a writer, was barred from publication in the German-speaking world because married to my Jewish grandmother. My dad came to America in 1936 as a refugee and...
became a U.S. citizen while serving in the Army. He caught four bullets to the gut during the battle of Zig Zag pass in the Philippines during the retaking of Bataan. He spent 6 months in hospitals recovering, was saved by this new miracle drug called penicillin.
He would go on to live until 2016. As he watched the 2016 election play out, he was glued to the TV, to watching what the though would be "the fall of a dictator." A would-be dictator in Trump, a type of man he recognized from his youth.
A warning from history, channeled through a dying man who had lived and seen and survived the sweep of change across nearly a century, who outlived the fascists and Nazis, and who is now, at Arlington, written into the permanent record of devotion to this country.
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