Just days after bashing former presidents on how they handle the deaths of U.S. soldiers; President Donald Trump reportedly told the widow of a Green Beret who was killed in an ambush in Niger that the soldier “knew what he signed up for” during a phone call on Tuesday, October 18, according to Rep. Frederica Wilson.
Speaking with CNN, Wilson said she overheard the conversation between Army Sgt. La David Johnson's widow, Myeshia Johnson, and the president as they traveled together to Miami International Airport Tuesday afternoon to meet the body of her husband. "Basically he said, 'well, I guess he knew what he signed up for. But I guess it still hurt.' That's what he said." Wilson told CNN's Don Lemon.
Johnson, who served as a member of mentorship program founded by Wilson, was ambushed by gunfire from enemies with believed ties to ISIS. As the attack occurred, Johnson was separated from the rest of his group and went missing. Johnson's body was retrieved a few days later by Nigerien troops.
Myeshia Johnson, who is six months pregnant with the couple's third child, according to Wilson, was left in tears after the phone conservation. "“She has just lost her husband," Wilson said. "She was just told that he cannot have an open casket funeral which gives her all kinds of nightmares how his body must look, how his face must look, and this is what the president of the United States says to her,”
Source: usatoday.com
