Posted on 10/20/2017 8:27:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., says she will no longer comment on a Gold Star widow's phone call with President Trump after White House chief of staff John Kelly's emotional press briefing in which he criticized the lawmaker for politicizing the call.
"The congresswoman will not be making any further comment on the issue because the focus should be on helping a grieving widow and family heal, not on her or Donald Trump," Wilson's spokesperson said in a statement Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Wilson had said Kelly's statements were motivated so he could keep his position in the White House.
"John Kelly's trying to keep his job," Wilson told Politico. "He will say anything. There were other people who heard what I heard."
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Trump told the widow of one of the four soldiers killed in Niger this month that her husband "knew what he signed up for ... but when it happens, it hurts anyway," Wilson recounted on Tuesday.
Trump made the comment while speaking to U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson's widow, Myeshia Johnson, who is pregnant with her late husband's third child. Trump called Myeshia Johnson just before her husband's body arrived at the Miami International Airport on Tuesday. Wilson was with her in a limousine and heard the conversation via speakerphone, and after discussing the call with reporters has clashed with the White House on just what was said.
On Monday, Trump claimed that former President Barack Obama and other former presidents "didn't often" make calls to grieving families. After a day of fallout, he shared in a radio interview that Kelly did not receive a call from Obama when his son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
Kelly, who was said to be surprised that Trump had shared that Obama hadn't called him, defended Trump Thursday in response to Wilson's claims.
"There's no perfect way to make that phone call. When I took this job and talked to President Trump about how to do it, my first recommendation was to not do it, because it's not the phone call that parents, family members are looking forward to," Kelly told reporters at the White House.
"It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation," he added. "I thought at least that was sacred."
Winning, yet again.
Ha haaaa!!! That’s because you’ve been busted as a stone cold lying sack of crap, Frederick/Frederica.
She is a retard in a clown hat.
And people elect her, which makes them retards in clown hats.
Yeah, she saw all the attention Maxine Waters is getting and wanted her some of that.
It was after it was revealed that she’s voted several times against increasing payments to widows of those killed in combat.
Somebody with a brain must’ve got to her and told her she was taking on water.
That would be no one from the democrat party...
Somebody with a brain must’ve got to her and told her she was taking on water.
That would be no one from the democrat party...
The family must have scolded her for making this all about her...rock star indeed.
IOW: “I got busted on my lie and it got bigger than I thought it would.”
Too late, tranny pimp in a cowboy hat!!! You already put your evilness on full display.
Do you think you’ve done anything to make you and your disgusting Rat party better off? Do you think you won more votes for the next election?
What an ignorant and hateful POS.
She needs to be investigated by the House Ethics office from abusing her position. Get the maggots out of Congress! Now!
Gee why Rodeo Clown it was working out so well for you right?
Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left.
Her fashion designer must be a pimp. She looks like a pimp.
She really looks like someone who gives a $hit about how the mother of a dead U.S. soldier feels.
When my daddy went off to fight in WWII, nobody told him the Germans might be firing REAL bullets at him!
I’m taking bets on how long this “pledge” will last. Over/under: 24 hours.
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