The Atlantic is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs who has been described as "one of Kamala Harris’ biggest bankrollers—and closest friends."

The New York Times reported that The Atlantic's owner "quietly contributed millions of dollars to an organization backing Ms. Harris" and "played a hidden but key role in helping usher Mr. Biden out of the race, which cleared the way for a Harris run."

So, it's no surprise that The Atlantic would publish a false smear in the lead up to the election to try to help Kamala Harris' failing campaign.

The Atlantic's dishonest reporting has been universally panned.  

Mayra Guillen, Vanessa Guillen's sister, wrote: "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."

Natalie Khawam, the Guillen family's attorney, wrote: "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. More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder… for cheap political gain.

I would like to also point out that the timing of this 'story' is quite suspicious, as this supposed conversation that Trump had would have occurred over 4 years ago! Why a story about it now?!

As everyone knows, not only did Trump support our military, he also invited my clients to the Oval Office and supported the I Am Vanessa Guillen bill too.

I’m grateful we were successful in getting bipartisan support of the I Am Vanessa Guillen Act, and because of everyone’s hard work and efforts our service members now have more protections and rights while serving our country."

Mark Meadows, former White House Chief of Staff, wrote: "I was in the discussions featured in the Atlantic’s latest hit piece against President Trump. Let me say this.

Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false.

He was nothing but kind, gracious, and wanted to make sure that the military and the U.S. government did right by Vanessa Guillen and her family."

Kash Patel, former Pentagon Chief of Staff, said in a statement: "Of course, President Trump didn't say that. As someone who was present in the room with President Trump during that meeting on December 4, he strongly urged that Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s grieving family should not have to bear the cost of any funeral arrangements, even offering to personally pay himself in order to honor her life and sacrifice. In addition, President Trump was able to have the Department of Defense designate her death as occurring ‘in the line of duty,’ which gave her full military honors and provided her family access to benefits, services, and complete financial assistance.”