Crixus
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‘Calling the widow of an American soldier killed in action is, emotionally speaking, absolutely gut-wrenching. Knowing that nothing you will say can bring true comfort. Knowing a life -- and likely many lives -- have been altered forever. Facing down pure loss and pure grief.
As difficult as it is emotionally, it is just as simple politically speaking. You call -- or write -- expressing deepest sympathies and condolences. You offer any assistance you can. The end.
Which makes what President Donald Trump has done -- and is doing -- with Myeshia Johnson (and Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson) all the more appalling.
On Monday, in an interview with "Good Morning America," Johnson, the widow of slain Sgt. La David Johnson, spoke for the first time in public about her phone call with Trump. She confirmed Wilson's account that Trump had told her that her husband "knew what he was getting into" and added: "It made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it. He couldn't remember my husband's name."
To which Trump almost immediately replied via Twitter: "I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!"
It's staggering to consider what Trump is doing here.
After spending the weekend attacking Wilson for allegedly lying about the nature of the call between himself and Johnson -- even though White House chief of staff John Kelly confirmed last week the basics of Wilson's account of the words Trump used -- the President is now suggesting that the widow of a soldier killed in action is lying.’
Donald Trump just hit a new low in the La David Johnson fiasco - CNNPolitics
It is indeed staggering what Trump is doing, but should come as no surprise.
Bull shit. You need to take a look at the kunt who started this. This snake sits in a car with a widow after voting to defund the widows husband every single time in congress , she then uses this widows dead husband to become a rock star. She then exploits the widows grief to save her ass politically by making her a target of the media, much like me Hillary did with the Kahn’s,That you would do the same puts you in a group of folks most would not admit to thinking very highly of if at all. If that type of thing is acceptable to you then you are nothing more then another hyper partisan USMB psudointellectual. Sad to, because otherwise I would bet money you are typically pretty decent.
Sorry but Trump was the one who failed to ring first, then tried to blame other Presidents and then screwed up the call with the comment first...
He could have just said he had an ill choice of words but NO, he doubled down... But he can always rely on the Trumpettes to shit on fallen soldiers families... Real fucking heroes ye are..
The fact that a kurfuffle blew up out of a conversation with the widow of a man who's corps just got off an airplane is disgusting. The wife did not come out first and say all this shit, no, it was after the rodeo clown made it an issue from what she claims she heard. Now, the DNC put that stupid old crone back in her place, they trot what they consider a bullet proof critic out instead. That is also disgusting. The sad thing is, no one even cares. Instead if "why are a thousand guys and gals in Niger " it's "orange dumbass is a dumbass"! This hurts the never trumpers more.