Fallen Soldier’s Sister Goes Viral After Trump Claims Only He Calls Dead Soldiers’ Families

This morning, during remarks about the four U.S. soldiers who were killed in Niger last week, 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.”

Delilia O’Malley, whose brother was killed serving during the Bush era, struck back at Trump’s baseless, inflammatory claim with a heart-wrenching message on Twitter.

Former Obama staff members have also 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.

Perhaps he should get new sources.

Trump has always had a decidedly poor track record when it comes to respect for the military. He has attacked Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT) regarding his military service and the Gold Star family of Humayun Khan. At one point, he even asserted that Mr. Khan delivered the entire speech at the Democratic National Convention while his wife stood by his side because she was not “allowed” to speak.

Trump himself sought five deferments to dodge the Vietnam draft.

It doesn’t seem as if Trump’s self-congratulatory lie was worth the blatant, glaring disrespect for our fallen service people and their families.

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