to be fair, he DID know what he signed up for... being a triple volunteer and all
Posted on 10/18/2017 2:28:48 PM PDT by Ennis85
The mother of a US soldier who was killed in action has backed a congresswoman's claim that President Donald Trump showed insensitivity during a phone call to her son's widow. Representative Frederica Wilson said he had told Myeshia Johnson: "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway." Mr Trump said Ms Wilson's account was "totally fabricated". Sgt La David Johnson was killed in Niger by Islamist militants this month. He was one four US special service soldiers who died in an ambush. Mr Trump had already been criticised for not contacting the families of the dead servicemen right after the fatal ambush on 4 October. Sgt Johnson's mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, backed Representative Wilson's account of the phone call. "President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband," she told the Washington Post newspaper.
A separate case which saw Mr Trump offer money to the grieving father of a dead serviceman in a call, but allegedly not pay up, has now emerged. "He said: 'I'm going to write you a cheque out of my personal account for $25,000', and I was just floored," the father told the Washington Post. The White House subsequently told the newspaper that the cheque had been sent, saying it was a "generous and sincere gesture".
Ms Wilson, who represents a Florida district, told CNN the president's call had been made shortly before Sgt Johnson's coffin arrived by aircraft in his home city of Miami.
Ms Wilson told WPLG, a Miami TV station, she had heard the president's "so insensitive" remarks to the widow on speakerphone in a limousine. "To me, that is something that you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn't say that to a grieving widow," she said.
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Exactly.
I’d rather hear it from the widow’s mouth thank you. She’s probably being held hostage by her in-laws.
See, there are no veterans in the brain syphilitic media so they don’t get what we veterans do - namely, we knew what we were getting into, we knew the risks but we did it anyway-
Is that what all this handwringing and gnashing is about? OMG
Today’s media talking point.
Forget all about Hillary’s uranium deal with Russia.
to be fair, he DID know what he signed up for... being a triple volunteer and all
You better believe the wife is being told Trump is a racist and evil and that she has to go along with whatever BS they want for the good of blacks in America
Trump probably taped the conversation as he probably needs to prevent this kind of crap from being thrown at him. If he didn’t do it this congresswoman needs to be found in court for liable.
Mark Levin finds this left wing kook hack Congresswoman disgusting along with her stupid cowboy hat.
Black Congresswoman to mother: Did you hear what he said?
Mother: No, what did he say?
BC to mother: He said he knew what he was getting into. He made it sound like nobody should be sad.
Mother: I didn’t hear that! Thank you!
BC to mother: That’s okay. Us black peopple need to stick together.
Mother: We sure do!
Wife: Crying in the background,... happy to have had a call from the president.
Sean Hannity made a big deal about this on his show today.
He was gracious and made no assumptions or remarks about “the grieving widow”.
I won’t be so kind or gracious. I’ll state she was a typical Obama voter who twisted the kind words President Trump offered her and then with that Frederica freak and doubled down on the “I hate Trump” agenda.
Sorry a good soldier died. But screw you lady.
Mark Levin is doing good on this now. The Congresswoman has changed her first story and sounds like an idiot.
What the media is doing is despicable.
That democratic black representative has Trump’s consilation call confused with Obama. Obama who would not wear the American flag pin during campaigning.
Sometime back Obama is on record to have made a series of negative statements ridiculing the military and volunteers. Athough he made a big deal about Bergdall the deserter can’t recall any consolation calls to survivors of soldiers killed in action.
What the media is doing is despicable.
That democratic black representative has Trump’s consilation call confused with Obama. Obama who would not wear the American flag pin during campaigning.
Sometime back Obama is on record to have made a series of negative statements ridiculing the military and volunteers. Athough he made a big deal about Bergdall the deserter can’t recall any consolation calls to survivors of soldiers killed in action.
“Spouse: Paul Wilson (m. 1963–1988)”
He couldnt take it anymore. Was it a rope or a garden hose in the tailpipe?
it suddenly occurred to me that the time of the phone call is of record and where the congressmen is probably on the record. what do you want to bet that the congresswoman was not even in the same area when trump called. I am betting that if you look into the wife background you will find that she was an activist before all of this. I am also betting that the congress women does not have a history of visiting the families of solders that have died in her district.my other question is this is the congress women actually from the same district as the family she is comforting.
my guess is that if the congresswomen and the wife of the fallen solder are playing games with the truth it will all come out in the next few days.
Translation: “Trump didn’t offer her any money.”
apologize for duplicate posting
“Trump hates black people, blah blah blah”
These ignorant blacks apparently have no clue how a full metal jacket communist government-which they so ardently want-would deal with negroes. Totenkopf einsatzgruppen anybody?
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