US polls: Trump faces election fallout from alleged insult of dead troops

Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, said that while he hadn't heard the remarks himself, they sounded like something the president would say

An explosive report alleging that President Donald Trump has disparaged dead US military service members threatens to further imperil his struggling bid for a second term, with his Democratic opponent Joe Biden seizing on the moment just two months before the election.

Trump angrily denied The Atlantic magazine’s report on Thursday, and the White House has mounted a furious effort to rebut its details, including public denials by Vice President Mike Pence and his top national security adviser, retired Army General Keith Kellogg.

But Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, said that while he hadn’t heard the remarks himself,