Chelsea Clinton Just Showed America How To Console The Grieving Widow Of A Fallen Soldier
After having waited an extraordinarily long thirteen days, President Trump finally called the widow of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson to console her for the loss of her husband. According to Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), who was in the car with Johnson and overhead the conversation, Trump spoke to Myeshia Johnson for about five minutes and had this to say:
“‘He must have known what he signed up for.’ He said it more than once. How could you say that to a grieving widow? This man has no feelings for anyone” recounts a stunned Rep. Wilson.
Upon seeing the President’s words – completely devoid of empathy – Chelsea Clinton issued her own statement to Mrs. Johnson that was decidedly more “presidential” than Trump’s.
La David Johnson was lost in an ambush with Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, 35; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, 39; Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, 29, of Lyons. It is unclear if President Trump has contacted those families yet.
The President has spent the past few days insinuating that President Obama had failed to console the grieving families of fallen soldiers in a timely fashion to cover up the fact that Trump simply didn’t care enough to respond to their deaths until he was publicly forced to by the media
While excusing his own delay, Trump claimed that while he has “traditionally” called the families of slain soldiers, past presidents “didn’t make calls.”
“The toughest calls I have to make are the calls where this happens — soldiers are killed,” Trump said. “It’s a very difficult thing. Now it gets to a point where you make four or five of them in one day, it’s a very, very tough day. For me that’s by far the toughest. So the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I’m able to do it.”
Both sides of the aisle quickly condemned the statement, including former Obama administration officials who chimed in in what has become a widely-derided and easily debunked claim by a President with a tenuous grasp of reality and even more tenuous relationship with facts.
Within 15 minutes of making his statement, when Trump was pressed on his claim, he quickly backtracked, claiming instead that he was “told” Obama didn’t call the families of slain soldiers.
And a lot of presidents don’t, they write letters. … I do a combination of both. Sometimes, it’s a very difficult thing to do, but I do a combination of both. President Obama, I think, probably did sometimes, and maybe sometimes he didn’t, I don’t know, that’s what I was told,” Trump said.
When the bodies of the four men killed in Niger were brought back to America, Donald Trump was golfing.
For a man who has spent the past two weeks complaining that NFL players kneeling during the anthem is “disrespectful to our troops” to then openly be disrespectful to a fallen soldier is not only mindbogglingly hypocritical but leagues beneath the dignity of the office he holds.
Now he adds insult to grievous injury by making light of their deaths. It’s said every day, but this man is truly a disgrace to the United States of America and the brave men and women who risk their lives for their country.
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