MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Myeshia Johnson, the widow of a soldier killed earlier this month in Niger, said Monday [10-23-17] that a condolence call from President Donald Trump ‘made me cry even worse,’ prompting Trump to immediately push back against part of her emotional account via Twitter…
An hour after Johnson’s ABC interview aired, Trump responded on Twitter to rebut a portion of her account. ‘I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!’ Trump claimed in his online post…
The phone call between Johnson and the president became a point of contention last week when Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a family friend who was traveling with the widow when she took Trump’s call on speakerphone, told reporters that the president had struggled to remember Army Sgt. La David Johnson’s name and said the slain soldier knew what he signed up for when he enlisted.”
-Louis Nelson, “Trump spars with widow of slain soldier about condolence call,” Politico, Oct. 23, 2017 09:56am