Shila Murphy says, after her son died in the army in a armored vehicle in Syria in May, she did not receive any call or speech from President Donald Trump, even when she waited for months for his condolences, she wrote to him to say, “On some days, I do not want to live,” and still does not hear anything.
On the other hand, Trump contacted Eddie and Lamin for me about 10 days after their army was killed in an explosion while they were patrolling in Iraq in April. “A beautiful young man,” Trump said, according to Al -Din. She thought it was a beautiful word to hear about her son, “Beautiful”.
Like presidents by him, Trump has contacted some families of the fall, not everything. What is different is that Trump, alone between them, has chosen a political battle around who was better to honor the war of the dead and their families.
He put himself on the top of this Pantheon, and he boasts on Tuesday that “I think I called every family from a person who died” while former presidents did not last such calls.
But the Associated Press found relatives of two soldiers who died abroad during the Trump presidency who said they had not received a call or a letter from him, in addition to third relatives who did not receive a call. The proof is abundant that Barack Obama and George W. Bush – heavy with nearly twenty combat outfits under Trump, took strenuous steps for writing, calling or interviewing broken military families.
This issue arose because nearly two weeks passed before Trump called the families of four American soldiers who were killed in Niger nearly two weeks ago. He made calls on Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, Representative Friederica Wilson said late on Tuesday that Trump told the widow of a soldier who was “knowing what he participated in.” Early on Wednesday, the President described the Wilson version of the conversation as a manufacturing.
Democracy in Florida said it was in the car with myshia Johnson on its way to the Miami International Airport to meet the body of Johnson’s husband, sergeant. No David Johnson, when Trump called. Wilson says she heard part of the speaker on the speaker.
When I was asked from Miaami Station WPLG if you already hear Trump says she answered: “Yes, he said that. For me, this is something you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn’t say that for a sad widow.” “This is very sensitive,” she added.
Trump took a strong case with this narration early on Wednesday.
“A member of the Democratic Congress is completely fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died at work (I have evidence). Sad!” He said on Twitter.
Sergeant. Johnson was among the four soldiers killed in the Niger ambush.
Wilson said she had not heard the entire conversation and told her that she could not remember everything that has been said.
The White House did not comment immediately.
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Trump’s delay in discussing missing men in Niger does not seem unusual, based on previous examples, but politicizing it. So far on Tuesday, he went to the death of the Chief of Staff John Kelly in Afghanistan to ask whether Obama had properly honored the war.
Kelly was a marine general during the era of Obama when his naval son Robert died in 2010. “You can ask General Kelly, do you receive a call from Obama?” Trump said on Fox News Radio.
Democrats and some former government officials were angry, accusing Trump of “unfamiliar cruelty” and “sick game”.
“I just hope this supreme leader will stop using the families of the golden stars in any sick game he tries to play here,” said Democratic Senator Tami Dakright of Illinois, an old warrior in Iraq who lost his legs when a helicopter was attacked.
For their part, the families of the Gold Star, who lost members of wartime, told AP about the intimate kindness of Obama and Bush when these leaders in their budget.
Trump initially claimed that only among the presidents were keen to summon families. He said that Obama may have done it sometimes, but “other presidents did not call.”
It tied on Tuesday, as the record made it clear that its description was wrong. “I don’t know,” he said about previous calls. But he said that his own practice is to summon all the families of the dead war.
But this did not happen:
The White House protocol does not require presidents to speak or meet with the families of Americans who were killed at work – an impossible task in the bloody stages of war. But they often do.
In general, about 6,900 Americans have been killed in external wars since September 11, 2001, attacks, and overwhelming majority during the Bush and Obama era.
Despite the heaviest of its hour – more than 800 dead every year from 2004 to 2007 – Bush wrote to all the bereaved military families and met or spoke with hundreds if not thousands.
The veterans of the veterans said they had no quarrel with how the presidents recognize or their families recognized.
“I don’t think there is any president I know he did not contact the families,” said Rick Wadman, co -founder and executive director of the old warriors in Vietnam in America. “President Obama often called and called on President Bush often. They also made regular visits to the Walter Reed Center and Betisda Medical Center, in the evening and on Saturday.”
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Benom mentioned Savana, Georgia. Jonathan Drew in Rally, North Carolina, Christine de Groot in Philadelphia, Jennifer McDirmot in Proventins, Rod Island, Michel Price in Sulting Lake City, and Hop Yen and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.