WASHINGTON – After died in an armored vehicle in Syria in May, Sheila Murphy said that even if he waited for months for his condolences, he said, “I don’t want to live, ve and still heard nothing.
In contrast, Trump called Eddie and Aldine Lee about 10 days after the murder of the sons of Army in Iraq in April. “Beautiful young man, Tr Trump said, according to Aldene. He thought it was a good word to hear his son about “cute ..
Like the presidents in front of him, Trump has made personal contact with some of the families who had fallen, not all. What is different is that Trump chose a political fight against those who are better to honor the war and their families.
He placed himself on the top of this pantheon, and on Tuesday, when the past presidents did not make such calls, he said, ım I called every family of a deceased family ”.
However, the Associated Press found relatives of two soldiers who died during the presidency of Trump, that they had never received a call or letter from him, and one -third’s relatives who could not be called. And proof, Barack Obama and George W. Bush – under Trump, so far two dozen more war wounded with the wounded, the essential steps to write, seek or meet the mourning military families.
The issue appeared because Trump has been about two weeks before calling the families of four US troops killed in Niger almost two weeks ago. He made his calls on Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, representative Frederica Wilson said that Trump knew what was enrolled in a widow’s widow’s widow on Tuesday, late on Tuesday. Early on Wednesday, he described President Wilson’s speech version as a fabrication.
Florida Democrat, Johnson’s husband Sgt. La David Johnson, when Trump calls. Wilson said he had heard some of the conversation on the speaker.
When he heard that the Miami station was really answered by WPLG, he said: “Yes, he said. To me, this is something you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn’t say it for a grieving widow.” “This is very insensitive.”
Trump had a strong problem with this narrative early on Wednesday.
“The Democratic Congress member completely produced what I said to his wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!” He said on Twitter.
SGT. Johnson was among the four soldiers killed in Niger ambush.
Wilson said he hadn’t heard of the whole conversation, and Myeshia Johnson said he couldn’t remember everything that was told.
The White House did not comment immediately.
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The delay of discussion of Trump’s lost men in Niger, the delay of discussion, did not seem extraordinary by looking at past examples, but politicizing the issue. On Tuesday to question whether Obama’s death properly honored the death of the war, he went on Tuesday to refer to the death of his son in Afghanistan.
Kelly was a sea general under Obama when he died in 2010, son of Deniz. “You can ask General Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?” Trump said Fox News in Radio.
The Democrats and some former government officials lived by accusing Trump of ör cruelty ”and a“ sick play ”.
“I wish I wish this commander would stop using the Gold Star families here as a pawn in the patient game where he tried to play Gold Star families here.”
Gold Star families who lost their members during the war during the war told AP when the commanders from Obama and Bush comforted them.
Trump initially claimed that he was looking for families only among the presidents. Obama may have done it from time to time, but “other presidents did not call,” he said.
Registration has made it clear that characterization is wrong. Orum I don’t know, ”he said from the past calls. But he said that his practice died of all their families of war.
But this didn’t happen:
No White House protocol does not demand presidents to talk or meet the families of the Americans killed in action – an impossible task in the most bloody stages of the war. But they often do.
Since September 11, 2001, in overseas wars, 6,900 Americans were killed from the overwhelming majority under Bush and Obama.
Spokesman Freddy Ford, despite much heavier wages on the clock – more than 800 dead every year from 2004 to 2007 – Bush wrote to all mourning military families and met hundreds of people, although not thousands of people.
Veterans groups said that the presidents had no fights about how they had fallen or familiar with their families.
Im I don’t think there is any president I know you don’t call families, R “President Obama frequently called and President Bush frequently called. At the same time, they made regular visits to Walter Reed and Bethesda Medical Center, going on the evenings and Saturdays.”
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Bynum, Savannah reported from Georgia. Jonathan, Raleigh, North Carolina, Kristen de Groot in Philadelphia, Jennifer McDermott in Providence, Michelle Price in Rhode Island, Salt Lake City and Hope Burns in Washington contributed to this report.
