This is from Myesha Johnson's interview on Good Morning America this morning."[I was] very upset and hurt. It made me cry even worse." - Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt. La David Johnson to @GStephanopoulos pic.twitter.com/JguNqTaYa3— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 23, 2017
She also confirmed that the Congresswoman's version of the phone call was "100% correct."
However Donald Trump could simply not let that stand."Whatever [@RepWilson] said was not fabricated. What she said was 100% correct." - widow of Sgt. La David Johnson on Pres. Trump's call pic.twitter.com/fOAmT7c0Bk— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 23, 2017
And no, that is NOT how Rep. Wilson, and now the widow, characterized that phone call.I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2017
Which essentially means that Donald Trump is calling them liars.
Speaking of liars apparently now Gold Star families are finally receiving rush delivered condolence letters from the White House after Trump publicly claimed that he had reached out to "all of the families."
Gee, what a smooth cover up.
Give Donny boy some credit. At least he did not say to her ...
ReplyDelete"Your guy is only a hero because he died. I only like soldiers that don't die."
“have a good time"...
DeleteRep Wilson was 100% correct. We can expect Trump to be the jerk he is, I don't see an apology coming. He only made things worse when he had a former general, current CoS come out and attack Rep Wilson with his blatant lie.
ReplyDeleteMyeshia Johnson, Rep Wilson, Senators and everyone else needs to know what happened to La David Johnson.
We all need to know what is going on in Nigeria? Why so secret?
Niger, not Nigeria. Different countries.
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Different countries connected.
http://www.dw.com/en/nigeria-oil-spills-lead-to-increased-newborn-mortality-in-the-niger-delta/a-41052670
NEVER. "his White House doesn’t apologize. They specialize in taking bad situations and making them worse by doubling and tripling down on their lies and previous comments."
ReplyDelete"Silence is enabling, and we can’t allow this president to be normalized."
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/23/white-house-announces-trump-apologize-family-la-david-johnson.html
The White House is going to allow Trump to call a grieving Army widow a liar, and do nothing to try to make the situation right. This is such an easy fix. If Trump wasn’t a heartless sociopath, he could apologize for his poor choice of words, but this White House doesn’t apologize. They specialize in taking bad situations and making them worse by doubling and tripling down on their lies and previous comments.
DeleteThe wife and family of La David Johnson deserve an apology.
The President Of The United States should never speak to the family of a person who sacrificed their life for their country in the way that Trump spoke to Myeshia Johnson. More Gold Star families who have been neglected, disrespected or ignored by Trump need to speak out. Trump disrespected the Gold Star Khan family during the campaign, and now he has disrespected the Johnsons.
They aren’t the only ones.
The White House is trying to bury this scandal, which is why patriots of all varieties need to speak out against the behavior of this president.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/23/white-house-announces-trump-apologize-family-la-david-johnson.html
" “the president said that ‘he knew what he signed up for but it hurts anyways’ and it made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it.” She continued: “He couldn’t remember my husband’s name. The only way he remembered my husband’s name because he told me he had my husband’s report in front of him and that’s when he actually said La David. I heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband’s name and that hurt me the most because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risks his life for our country, why can’t you remember his name?”"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/myeshia-johnson-gma-interview-confirms-frederica-wilson-trump
When I hear that rhetoric, ‘he knew what he signed up for', I think of Pat Tillman. What I recall is he was very patriotic and signed up to fight for the USA and protect us believing all the recruiting hype.
DeleteWhen he was in Afghanistan he saw another version of things, he was killed, they say it was 'friendly fire'. He could never tell about his experiences in war and what he signed up for.
Basically he thought he knew what he signed up for, but in reality he didn't know what he signed up for.
It would help if a Gold Star widow could know what her husband was doing in Niger when he died and about his death. Our Senators don't even know about the 1000 troops. I doubt these men do actually know what they sign up for when the Arms Service Committee can't even know what is going on.
How many more places like this are happening now? How many troops think they know what they signed up for but in real life they don't know. The military is not that honest with anyone.
THE NFL, THE MILITARY, AND THE HIJACKING OF PAT TILLMAN’S STORY
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Trump goes after the nearly two dozen NFL players who protested during the national anthem Sunday as he blasts the league for having 'no leadership'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5006653/About-2-dozen-NFL-players-protested-anthems-Sunday.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran_suicide
Deletebetween 20 & 22 every day "didn't know what TheY signed up for."?
Trump wants to be able to say he is keeping his campaign promises. He likes stories like this: Trump: End of ISIS caliphate 'in sight' with Raqqa victory The president noted that one of his 'core' 2016 campaign promises was to knock out ISIS. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/21/trump-isis-raqqa-islamic-state-244023
DeleteHe doesn't want The Armed Service Committee, Senators or others to know where all he is 'trying to knock out ISIS'. Where he is sending 1000s or more troops.
Trump could be sending 1000 troops to 1000 or more locations. Now each and all should be questioned as to, does anyone know what they sign up for?
we have been fighting there for decades. of course they know, the army is the only way a lot of people get out of poverty. the rich do not go to war.
DeleteI want to know why they evacuated the bodies of the white soldiers but left the black soldier. It was the Niger military that recovered his body two days later. (I’m sure the closed casket is due to decomposition and possibly predation by animals.)
DeleteWhy did the Green Berets leave one of their own? Aren’t they sworn to leave no one behind? Or do they evacuate the light green berets and come back for the dark green ones when it’s convenient, or foist that off on the locals?
The entire situation stinks and needs to be fully exposed.
"I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!” {So~ HE knew She knew}
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-widow-wrong-i-knew-la-david-johnsons-name
I call bullshit. When the press confronted him he only referred to them as those women and that woman. He didn’t know the widow’s name. He didn’t even know Rep. Wilson’s name. That’s what he does. He hides behind generalities or labels. I’m surprised he didn’t call them Cryin’ Johnson and Wacky Wilson.
DeleteDonald fights because they are black. Then he promises a white soldiers family 25 thousand? We live in Nazi America.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/10/the_president_shouldn_t_be_writing_checks_to_the_parents_of_slain_service.html
Delete"By putting a $ubjective VALUE on the lives of our loved ones"
Why does ONE fallen soldier's family deserve a personal check from the president, and ALL THE OTHERS do not???
Deleteyou really think he means it?
DeleteHe promised the white “ex-husband” $25,000 because the guy was whining that his ex-wife got all of the survivor’s benefits and he didn’t get anything.
DeleteWhat a tangled web Trump weaves that others get drawn into or are the targets of his poisonous tweets.
ReplyDeleteTrump has no regard or respect for the feelings of others. He will never recognize nor acknowledge the widow and family felt upset by his words. Worse he has character assassinated everyone in the car then had Kelly go after them. The widow had a right to put the call on speaker phone. Kelly indirectly drew her in misportrating Wilson as listening in on a private conversation. The administration can not stop bluffing via lies, attack, lie and attack as Bill Maher accurately stated the pattern.
As the media reports they are also attacked.
Disengaging from the toxic dynamics Trump is delusional he won but he gets them to shut up which is his goal.
So, Rep. Wilson is not allowed to listen in to a 'private conversation' that was put on speakerphone, yet Kelly is allowed to listen to the same 'private' conversation on the Dotards' side???
DeleteKelly and how many others were allowed to listen to the conversation with Dotard?
Delete54% of women voters voted for Trump. An awful lot of African-Americans stayed home. THIS is the inevitable result. If Democrats can't turn this around and make sure women and African-Americans vote for The Democratic nominee after THIS, then they really do deserve permanent Minority status.
ReplyDeleteIt always amazes me how the Democratic party claims ownership African Americans and women.
Delete8:41: that is not that they are claiming it. It is because what the White Supremacist Party is doing is going AGAINST the interests of all non-white people!
DeleteWell 10:41, then why did 7:59 write:
Delete"If Democrats can't turn this around and make sure women and African-Americans vote for The Democratic nominee after THIS, then they really do deserve permanent Minority status."
As if women and African Americans aren't allowed to make their own choice in voting? ie ownership.
And the current inference being pushed from many on the left, that ALL republicans ans ALL white people are racists, is going to backfire. Pure racial identity politics. It is a bad end game for the Democratic Party if that is all they have.
there is the issue of gerrymanding. can't spell today. the repubs love that. it's they got voted in. the repubs don't play fair and we should not either.
DeleteThey’re not going to “turn it around” by replacing all of Keith Ellison’s supporters in key DNC positions and failing to support Democratic candidates unless they are sure things to win.
DeleteThat is NOT going to turn anything around.
"why trump has no problem feuding with congresswoman Wilson. His supporters enjoy seeing him beat up on a black female elected official. The fact that she is defending a constituent whose husband gave his life for this country means nothing to them. It was never about America; it was always about control and power, and trump has tapped into that energy with 30% of the American people that make up his base."I doubt seriously if Mr. trump has ever read an entire book. But then, neither have most of his supporters, {NOT even the BIBLE} so I guess we can say that they are a match made in racist HEAVEN." > {Going directly to HELL.}
ReplyDeletehttp://field-negro.blogspot.com/2017/10/when-bigots-are-emboldened.html
OT?@83 "The dark side of human nature"
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Wow! She is gorgeous!
ReplyDeletedon't judge a woman by her looks. even more so because she lost her, loved husband. what an thoughtless thing to say.
DeleteCNN takes aim at President Donald Trump and his TV surrogates’ lies in a stunning ad
ReplyDeleteIn a stunning new ad campaign, CNN is lodging an attack at those claiming an apple is a banana.
“This is an apple,” the ad begins with a red apple on a white screen. “Some people might try to tell you it’s a banana. They might scream, ‘Banana, banana, banana,’ over and over again. They might put banana in all caps. You might even start to believe this is a banana. But it’s not. This is an apple.”
The words “facts first,” then flash on the screen before the CNN logo.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/cnn-took-aim-at-president-donald-trump-and-his-tv-surrogates-lies-in-a-stunning-abstract-ad/
Would it be a “fake banana?”
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ReplyDeleteWidow Of U.S. Soldier Killed In Niger: Trump’s Call ‘Made Me Cry Even Worse’
Myeshia Johnson confirmed the president told her that her husband “knew what he signed up for.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/myeshia-johnson-trump-phone-call_us_59edbc7ce4b00f08619fcb04?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/23/trump-walks-reporters-niger-ambush-benghazi.html
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"What the country has now is a man who has zero respect for the troops and their families. The Oval Office is occupied by a man who takes your time of greatest sorrow and makes you feel worse."
"The Green Berets who lost their lives in Niger didn’t run, but Trump can’t even look America in the eye and answer questions."
He's been in office, what 9-10 months? He had a second Medal of Honor ceremony today. He loves the military and he honors them. How much more respectful could he be?
DeleteLook at all the military he has employed. General Michael Flynn, General John Kelly, General James Maddog Mattis to name a few. He respects everyone of them.
1;19 you are as out of with reality as dumpt. he respects no one. he does not care about any one but himself. take your blinders off.
DeleteThe White House Is Now Refusing To Tell You When Donald Trump Is Playing Golf
ReplyDeleteThe White House is going to absurd lengths to keep Trump’s waste of taxpayer money a secret. They are now refusing to tell the press when the President is playing golf.
On Saturday and Sunday, the White House refused to tell reporters that Donald Trump was spending his weekend playing golf:
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/22/white-house-refusing-donald-trump-playing-golf.html
Remember, Trump cannot hide from the press on the golf courses he plays and owns. Use drones media forces!
DeleteAmerica will know when he is playing golf and not doing his job as potus.
That’s just going to make it worse. The media will find out and report that Trump is playing golf and that the White House is hiding the fact and Walleye Huckleberry is lying about it.
Delete‘Just let it go already’: Internet vilifies Trump after he calls Myeshia Johnson a liar
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/just-let-it-go-already-internet-vilifies-trump-after-he-calls-myeshia-johnson-a-liar/
Black women in Congress demand John Kelly apologize for ‘reprehensible’ smear against Frederica Wilson
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‘She needs answers’: CNN panel crushes Trump for blatantly lying about call with Sgt. Johnson’s widow
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/she-needs-answers-cnn-panel-crushes-trump-for-blatantly-lying-about-call-with-sgt-johnsons-family/
Trump accuses Myeshia Johnson of lying about their call: ‘I spoke his name from beginning!’
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/trump-accuses-myeshia-johnson-of-lying-about-their-call-i-spoke-his-name-from-beginning/
McCain brutally shames Trump on ‘The View’: Even POWs from WW2 wonder why you hate them
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What Trump did to Kelly shows how far we have fallen
ReplyDeleteThe United States is in the middle of a very unfortunate experiment in how disoriented a great nation can become before it loses its moorings entirely.
At times, politics seems fairly conventional with Republicans and Democrats arguing about health care and tax cuts, as they long have done. But former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama reminded us last week that there is nothing normal about this moment. They issued searing, overlapping condemnations of Trumpism without naming President Trump. Former commanders in chief of opposing parties don’t do this sort of thing unless the country faces an emergency.
Our disorientation is reflected further in the way honorable men and women allow themselves to be pushed into defending the indefensible and twisting noble concepts into cheap and ultimately shameful talking points. These are designed to get the president through one more news cycle or around some controversy he could easily quell if he had any familiarity with the words “I’m sorry.”
In the realm of political commentary, the now-daily detonations set off by a man who sees the common good as the pursuit of suckers drown out any serious discussion of the problems his voters thought he might try to solve.
...We can try to resist being drawn into this swamp of petty invective, knowing that we are being pulled away from the consequential questions. Yet doing so would mean overlooking the central fact of our political situation: that Trump is systematically sapping our democratic capacities through his routine behavior. As Bush put it, “We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. . . . Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization.”
This is why all except the most blind Trump partisans had to be heartsick over the performance of White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Thursday. The retired Marine Corps general, who devoted his life to service and suffered stoically when he lost a son in combat, stepped out as a hatchet man against Rep. Frederica S. Wilson...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-trump-did-to-kelly-shows-how-far-we-have-fallen/2017/10/22/f3a6832c-b5d5-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html
Using John Kelly turned out to be a big mistake. Now Kelly's best friend, Joseph Dunford, will try to begin to answer the questions about Niger. Kelly needs to retire. His big lie is what he will be remembered for. If Trump keeps using him and puts his face in front of the American people he will only be less trusted and more loathed.
DeleteCould John Kelly be more of a f****** bozo?
https://www.facebook.com/SgtDakotaMeyer/posts/1662522587120909?comment_id=1664140930292408&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D
truth tell>Katy Tur> 'FACT CHECKED EVERY WORD.'
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Melania to participate in a 'no one eats alone' anti-bullying event with trip to Michigan school – on same day her husband is in Twitter spat with Gold Star widow Read more:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5008917/Melania-participate-anti-bullying-event.html
Powerful Black Women>vs<“Mrs T”
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/melania-trump-is-lonely-racist-and-obsessed-with-michelle-obama-in-new-short-story/
ms. Johnson, we care about you and SGT. very deeply. your husband served America and it's people. he was not afraid to do what needed to be done. ignore the orange child in the White House. i know he hurt you deeply. he has hurt us all.
ReplyDeleteBLM 'I Can't Breathe'
ReplyDelete"Taibbi, who is white, initially wondered whether he was the right person to tell Garner's story. But as he dove deeper into the root causes of Garner's death, he began to feel differently.
"I think it's important for white reporters, ultimately, to own some of the responsibility for telling these stories, because it's our story, too, in a kind of terrible way," Taibbi says. "The reality is that Eric Garner died at the hands of a police force and a criminal justice system that were designed entirely by white people, for the most part."
"he had a kind of phobia about spending money on himself. He wanted all the money that he made to go to his kids. ..."He used to say he tried to "keep the block from getting hot,"
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/23/559498678/i-can-t-breathe-explores-life-and-death-at-the-hands-of-police?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2050