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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They only hear the parts they want to, not the whole context, because they don’t bother to learn to understand Trump. Trump is wrong at times, but many times Trump speaks truth/facts just not how others wanted it to be worded.
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Twitter: the gift that keeps on giving...
You can BET Landler "Mitt" himself on Twitter when President Trump won the election...
$100? $200?
IIRC he was shamed into doing this.
No way a narcissist like Obama would have even considered paying respect this way without some arm twisting.
DID EXTORTION 17 COVER-UP SINK REP. CHAFFETZ?
http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/did-extortion-17-cover-up-sink-rep-chaffetz/
A retired Air Force captain says Pentagon covered up real cause of deadly chopper crash
Obama and his ugly azz wife DESPISED the military.
From our perusal of news reports and news databases, we could not find any contemporaneous evidence that Obama spoke about such calls or that the White House announced he had called families.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/16/trumps-claim-that-obama-didnt-make-calls-to-families-of-the-fallen/?utm_term=.f78c2914f6ad
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