Posted on 10/16/2017 6:15:09 PM PDT by Ennis85
WASHINGTON — President Trump falsely asserted on Monday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, and other presidents did not contact the families of American troops killed in duty, drawing a swift, angry rebuke from several of Mr. Obama’s former aides.
Mr. Trump was responding to a question about why he had not spoken publicly about the killing of four Green Berets in an ambush in Niger two weeks ago when he made the assertion. Rather than answering the question, Mr. Trump said he had written personal letters to their families and planned to call them in the coming week. Then he pivoted to his predecessors.
“If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference in the Rose Garden with the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell. “A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate.”
Mr. Trump’s assertion belied a long record of meetings Mr. Obama held with the families of killed service people, as well as calls and letters, dating to the earliest days of his presidency. Before he decided to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, Mr. Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the caskets of troops.
While Mr. Obama’s former staff members have grown used to Mr. Trump’s gibes about the “failure” of the Affordable Care Act or the “disastrous” Iran nuclear deal, they lashed out at his remarks on Monday with unusual bitterness.
“This is an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards,” Benjamin J. Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to Mr. Obama, posted on Twitter. “Also,” Mr. Rhodes added, “Obama never attacked a Gold Star family.”
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Bill Ayers.
That told me everything I needed to know about his character 10 years ago.
You can't pick your parents, their beliefs or the place you were born.
You can pick your friends and associates..
You are known by the company you keep.
Oh Yeah NYT? So?
First of all, POTUS said that is what he was told. Then he said that Obama may have met with some families, may have called some and may have written. So after he made the comment, he corrected himself.
What we do know is Obama lied to the families of the dead Benghazi victims about the fictitious “video”.
What he was saying was that he both wrote a letter and called them where as other would typically do one or the other or neither. This story is silly; he wasn’t trying to suggest others didn’t care, he was showing how much he cares
Anything the Slimes asserts regarding DJT is 95% likely to be fake news. Plus Obama’s lackeys lie all the time.
We know Obama invited the deserter, Bergdahl’s family to the White House.
Obama invited the parents of traitor and deserter Bowe Bergdhal to the White House. Did Obama ever invite the family members of the six soldiers who died looking for him?
Zero’s counterattacking minions too stupid to realize they just got baited for a checkmate, likely a bloody one.
Does that count?
Condolences to ISIS Islamic Star families don’t count
Sorry, but the NYT is no longer creditable.
Try again, MSM.
How evil~!
Plus he’s like hitler.
( I say that in response to every single comment people make on facebook - its amazing how torqued-off they get )
Zero’s counterattacking minions too stupid to realize they just got baited for a checkmate, likely a bloody one.
Okay, okay. Fine. He should've been more specific and said Obama didn't contact families of fallen AMERICAN troops.
There. Satisfied? Sheesh.
I’d say his selection of Michelle Robinson told me all I needed to know about him....she was the one who introduced him to Wright’s “church” and he approved of both.
It was a boob move to even mention what obama did or didnt do
The question was about Trump mentioning or publicly honoring the 4 soldiers who died a useless death in a useless mission in a miserable hellhole
He lied to the Benghazi parents TO THEIR FACES.
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