Your proposed statement would not have ended a deliberate donnybrook. Wilson wanted a fight. It did not matter how Trump responded. If he said nothing, if he apologized, if he called her a liar, what ever he did or said would have resulted in her grandstanding on the back of a dead soldier and his grieving family.
It will all come out when the wife sues the Congresswoman for the $1/4 million she is taking out of the GOFUNDME for the family and putting into her own coffers.
I agree that no matter what Trump said, the media would have had a bone to pick. However, Trump should have made a statement about the sacrifices of the military and their families. His statements gave Wilson her 15 min of fame and then Kelly gets hammered as a racist. This rep did grand-stand on the back of this dead soldier and Trump should have not allowed her to do so- by his there is a time and place for Trump to be Trump. The death of a soldier and phone call to the widow, was not the time.