A fallen soldier’s angry widow joined the stormy dispute with President Donald Trump over his response to her husband’s death, declaring that his failure to remember the soldier’s name in last week’s condolence call “made me cry.”
He retorted the call was “very respectful” and her accusation about her husband’s name simply wasn’t true. Though Trump refused to let the new round of complaints go unanswered, he steered clear of the insults he exchanged last week with a congresswoman who had overheard the sympathy call.
The President spoke in public at two events during the day, including his awarding of the military Medal of Honor to a Vietnam-era Army medic, and made no mention of the case of Sgt la David Johnson, one of four soldiers killed October 4 in a firefight with terrorists. In addition to criticising Trump, Myeshia Johnson, the sergeant’s widow, also complained bitterly that she had not been able to see her husband’s body.