Vanessa Guillens sister and family attorney slam Atlantic editor for claiming Trump dissed murdered Army servicewoman: He outright LIED

A family attorney and the sister of slain Texas soldier Vanessa Guillen both dismissed a report in the Atlantic Tuesday alleging that former President Donald Trump refused to pay for the Army specialist’s funeral and disparaged her ethnicity. The piece, written by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, claims Trump fumed about a $60,000 bill he received from Guillen’s family for her funeral during a December 2020 Oval Office meeting – allegedly telling aides that “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—king Mexican.”“Don’t pay it!” Trump ordered his then chief of staff Mark Meadows, after previously telling the Guillen family he would assist with Vanessa’s funeral expenses, according to Goldberg. Mayra Guillen, Vanessa’s sister, slammed the Atlantic report as “hurtful & disrespectful,” and indicated that the former president treated her family with “respect” in the aftermath of sister’s brutal killing. “Wow,” Mayra wrote on X, in response to Goldberg’s reporting.“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,” she added.

“In fact, I voted for President Trump today.” 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 Tru...