White House Doesn’t Deny Trump Told Soldier’s Widow ‘He Knew What He Signed Up For’
- 7 years ago
The White House does not seem to be denying that President Trump recently told a Gold Star widow that her late husband “knew what he signed up for."
The White House does not seem to be denying that President Trump recently told a Gold Star widow that her late husband "knew what he signed up for.”
During a press briefing Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about the alleged comment. “The president’s call, as accounted by multiple people in the room, believe that the president was completely respectful, very sympathetic, and expressed the condolences of himself and the rest of the country and thanked the family for their service, commended them for having an American hero in their family, and I don’t know how you could take that any other way," Sanders said.
And when she was pressed about the actual words Trump spoke, Sanders commented, “I’m not going to get into the back and forth. I think that the sentiment of the president was very clear." "He took the time to make a call to express his condolences to thank the family for this individual’s service and I think it frankly is a disgrace of the media to try to portray an act of kindness like that and that gesture and to try to make it into something that it isn’t," she further noted.
The controversy made headlines after Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson told the media about Trump’s call to the widow of 25-year-old Sergeant La David Johnson who was among four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger earlier this month.
According to Wilson, Trump said on the call, in part,"he knew what he signed up for."
The president, meanwhile, has denied saying those words multiple times--first on Twitter and later to a reporter; he stated, “I didn't say what that congresswoman said; didn't say it all. She knows it.”
The White House does not seem to be denying that President Trump recently told a Gold Star widow that her late husband "knew what he signed up for.”
During a press briefing Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about the alleged comment. “The president’s call, as accounted by multiple people in the room, believe that the president was completely respectful, very sympathetic, and expressed the condolences of himself and the rest of the country and thanked the family for their service, commended them for having an American hero in their family, and I don’t know how you could take that any other way," Sanders said.
And when she was pressed about the actual words Trump spoke, Sanders commented, “I’m not going to get into the back and forth. I think that the sentiment of the president was very clear." "He took the time to make a call to express his condolences to thank the family for this individual’s service and I think it frankly is a disgrace of the media to try to portray an act of kindness like that and that gesture and to try to make it into something that it isn’t," she further noted.
The controversy made headlines after Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson told the media about Trump’s call to the widow of 25-year-old Sergeant La David Johnson who was among four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger earlier this month.
According to Wilson, Trump said on the call, in part,"he knew what he signed up for."
The president, meanwhile, has denied saying those words multiple times--first on Twitter and later to a reporter; he stated, “I didn't say what that congresswoman said; didn't say it all. She knows it.”