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White House Doubles Down on Disrespect to Fallen Soldier’s Family, Attacks Congresswoman Who Heard Call
Thursday’s White House press briefing featured a guest appearance by White House chief of staff John Kelly, who doubled down on the ignorant and disrespectful comments the president made to the widow of a fallen soldier earlier this week. The biggest takeaway from the briefing was Kelly using his time to attack Rep. Frederica Wilson…
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Trump Treated Sgt. La David Johnson the Way America Has Always Treated Black Soldiers
… And then there’s the story of Col. Charles Young. In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, Charles Young, the son of former slaves, was the Army’s highest-ranking black officer. He was the only serving black officer who was a West Point graduate, and the third black man to ever graduate from…
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Congresswoman Who Called Out Trump’s Disrespectful Comments to Military Widow Now Getting Threats
Rep. Frederica Wilson’s office says that the Democratic lawmaker received multiple threatening calls Wednesday following a public spat with Donald Trump. Wilson (D-Fla.) had publicly shamed the president for comments he made on a phone call to Myeshia Johnson, the wife of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in a military ambush in…
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How Trump Continues to Fail the Family of Sgt. La David Johnson
It’s not a terribly difficult name to remember: La David Johnson. Five syllables for a fallen soldier who died in an ambush in Niger earlier this month. But according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Democrat who represents the district where Johnson was from in Florida, that name was too much for Donald Trump to remember.…
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Donald Trump to Army Sergeant’s Pregnant Widow: ‘He Knew What He Signed Up For’
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, the dotard in chief does something else that leaves us all collectively face-palming and asking ourselves, “What the fuck?” This time, it is his comments to a grieving Army widow that have us shaking our head as a nation. U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson died…
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After Nearly 2 Weeks, Trump Still Hasn’t Reached Out to Dead Soldiers’ Families
It’s been nearly two weeks since a deadly ambush in Niger claimed the lives for four American soldiers, and President Donald Trump finally acknowledged the attack at a press conference this afternoon. “Why haven’t we heard anything from you so far about the soldiers that were killed in Niger, and what do you have to…