Posted on 10/20/2017 8:27:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., says she will no longer comment on a Gold Star widow's phone call with President Trump after White House chief of staff John Kelly's emotional press briefing in which he criticized the lawmaker for politicizing the call.
"The congresswoman will not be making any further comment on the issue because the focus should be on helping a grieving widow and family heal, not on her or Donald Trump," Wilson's spokesperson said in a statement Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Wilson had said Kelly's statements were motivated so he could keep his position in the White House.
"John Kelly's trying to keep his job," Wilson told Politico. "He will say anything. There were other people who heard what I heard."
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Trump told the widow of one of the four soldiers killed in Niger this month that her husband "knew what he signed up for ... but when it happens, it hurts anyway," Wilson recounted on Tuesday.
Trump made the comment while speaking to U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson's widow, Myeshia Johnson, who is pregnant with her late husband's third child. Trump called Myeshia Johnson just before her husband's body arrived at the Miami International Airport on Tuesday. Wilson was with her in a limousine and heard the conversation via speakerphone, and after discussing the call with reporters has clashed with the White House on just what was said.
On Monday, Trump claimed that former President Barack Obama and other former presidents "didn't often" make calls to grieving families. After a day of fallout, he shared in a radio interview that Kelly did not receive a call from Obama when his son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
Kelly, who was said to be surprised that Trump had shared that Obama hadn't called him, defended Trump Thursday in response to Wilson's claims.
"There's no perfect way to make that phone call. When I took this job and talked to President Trump about how to do it, my first recommendation was to not do it, because it's not the phone call that parents, family members are looking forward to," Kelly told reporters at the White House.
"It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation," he added. "I thought at least that was sacred."
She’s already achieved her goal: Three days of breathless coverage from the gutless media, (including Fox News Special Report). I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts none of them say a word about her eavesdropping again.
Someone in the Congressional Black Caucus pulled her aside and told her to STFU.
>>That would be no one from the democrat party...<<
Or the republican party either.
Maybe a disinterested bystander?
Well.....
Look at that......
Some woman’s cowboy hat fell off and landed on a horse’s ass and they got a picture of it.
yep, her ship hit the rocks.
Rock star? No! Box of rocks? Yes
Yeah I agree with you...she is a Box Of Rocks not a rock star!!!
Except I think this woman is too stupid to recognize it - so, yeah. Somebody got to her.
Now we need someone to whisper in the media’s ear and tell them to stop using this story to attack Trump - but I guarantee they won’t let it go.
Nothing these psychopaths throw at Trump is winning over new Democrat voters.
IIRC, Republican voter registration is up over Democrat registration in most states.
Somebody owes rodeo clowns an apology.
Hahahaha, perfect! :)
The report of the 17-yr low in black unemployment was a mayday to shove them back on the plantation.
Now that the actual audio is out and reveals her to be a bald-faced liar, she’s decided it’s time to shut her pie-hole?
Hope she got a nice lake cottage out of the deal.
Brian this morning on F&F had a 3 man panel of vets discuss this and one of them actually called her “Congressman Wat- excuse me Wilson,” not sure if deliberate, hilarious either way.
If you attack Donald Trump you must be certain to have all your ducks in a row. If not you will be revealed as a fool. People with an IQ of 85 have a problem with this. You could almost feel sorry for her except for all the damage people like her have caused.
Why should she say anymore? She planted the seed and the evil lying msm and other congress critters have taken up the cause. Sheila Jackson Lee has been tweeting out her support.
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