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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Pretty much what happened.
Wouldn’t be at all surprised.
Pretty tired of this; I wish Trump would say something to a camera instead of just Tweeting.
This was a total set up starting with the recent press conference.
Is the Congressional Black Caucus pushing this woman to do this?
Is this typical actions from her, she I know has been trashing President Trump for two years.
She has only been in the House of Rep’s for six years and she is soon 75 years old.. and her background says her husband died and she is a widow, I read where they were divorced and he then died...
What ever she is nothing but another DEMOCRAT trouble maker and she needs her butt kicked our of the Congress, and this special group known as CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS need to be dissolved and shut down..there is no balanced CONGRESSIONAL WHITE CAUCUS...SO SHUT THIS GROUP DOWN...
all telephone calls by the president are recorded.
Yup and if you don’t know what you signed up for, you shouldn’t be there.
He was a hero. May his wife be blessed.
Amen
I have a different take.
This guy must’ve been a giant among men to be able to endure 25 years with her.
Now the aunt is in on the action calling Trump an SOB
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4995072/Grieving-aunt-slain-Special-Forces-hero-calls-Trump-SOB.html
That family is a buncha ghetto trash low lifes. Dial back a few years when black leftists said we did not respect Obama because he was black. What they do to Trump is 100 times more foul.
Trump better be more careful with the military families he phones to offer condolences. Get some background on them and skip the haters.
Right.
That’s what I was thinking as well. This is simply too convenient of an occurrence as a follow-up to the narrative the media made up out of think air claiming President Trump wasn’t calling people fast enough. And she just happened to be with a Democrat member of Congress when the call came in, and she put the phone on speaker for the Democrat Congresswoman to listen in on? This does not make sense. Too many coincidences occurring in a distinct pattern.
Unless it was the Gold Star mother being shariah-compliant
Absolutely. I can’t believe how they’ve twisted it into something so negative.
So the mother backs the congresswoman...reminds me of how all those “eyewitnesses” in Ferguson were backing the version that was fed to the media (which turned out to be a lie).
There is no recording. However there was many in the room who heard President Trump’s respectful phone comments. I am sure they could verify that if called to do so.
General Kelly was in the room listening when the call was made.
I implore my fellow freepers to sign up for twitter and then follow the enemy media.
ONLY THEN can you realize just how coordinated this really all is. I have seen it time and time again and yesterday was no different - the scandal breaks and particularly when the mother made her comments, within minutes of each other the usual suspects - all of them, came out with their own articles about it.
I’m telling you all - this is pre-planned, a hit on Trump - bit by bit, piece by piece, attacking him in his natural areas of popularity i.e. military families.
Unless we get out of the barracks and start engaging these pieces of crap on places like twitter and fb, then they are going to make him a one term president. Never underestimate the stupidity of your fellow citizen - they elected Obama twice after all.
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