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<p>Today, it was reported that Donald Trump told the pregnant widow of a soldier killed in action that her husband &quot;<a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/fredrica-wilson-donald-trump-david-johnson-twitter-proof-widow-soldier/">knew what he was signing up for</a>... but when it happens, it hurts anyway.&quot;</p><p>He cried &quot;fake news,&quot; as he always does, but the mother of Sgt. La David Johnson told the <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/18/totally-fabricated-trump-disputes-congresswomans-depiction-of-his-exchange-with-soldiers-widow/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_johnson-828am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.b7c78441933a">Washington Post</a> </em>that the president did make that callous remark, and<strong> </strong>&quot;did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband.&quot; It only got worse as the day went on, when press secretary <a href="https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/920728187507757058">Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the widow</a> for misinterpreting him, &quot;blaming the widow&quot; always the nice thing to do.</p><p><em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-offered-a-grieving-military-father-25000-in-a-call-but-didnt-follow-through/2017/10/18/8d4cbc8c-b43a-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.dd597fc491f8">The Washington Post</a> </em>looked into Trump&#39;s other interactions with gold star families, which he claims are tremendous, yuge, <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/trump-press-conference-obama-lies-soldiers/">better than Obama&#39;s.</a></p><p>Surprisingly, Trump LIED, and hasn&#39;t called all the families of the fallen.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also, <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> found six Gold Star families were not called as Trump claimed <a href="https://t.co/i1O4uvE5Ik">https://t.co/i1O4uvE5Ik</a> <a href="https://t.co/xZeTV4u7Jy">pic.twitter.com/xZeTV4u7Jy</a></p>&mdash; Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanEggenWPost/status/920740054737309697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>And of the ones he <em>did </em>talk to, one episode stands out: Trump promised $25,000 to a grieving father over the summer, and didn&#39;t follow through until the <em>Post </em>reported it:</p><blockquote> <p>Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Cpl. Dillon Baldridge, told The Washington Post that Trump called him at his home in Zebulon, N.C., a few weeks after his 22-year-old son and two fellow soldiers were gunned down by an Afghan police officer in a suspected insider attack June 10. Their phone conversation lasted about 15 minutes, Baldridge said, and centered for a time on the father&rsquo;s struggle with the manner in which his son was killed.</p> <p>In his call with Trump, Baldridge, a construction worker, expressed frustration with the military&rsquo;s survivor benefits program. Because his ex-wife was listed as their son&rsquo;s beneficiary, she was expected to receive the Pentagon&rsquo;s $100,000 death gratuity &mdash; even though &ldquo;I can barely rub two nickels together,&rdquo; he told Trump.</p> <p>The president&rsquo;s response shocked him.</p> <p>&ldquo;He said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to write you a check out of my personal account for $25,000,&rsquo; and I was just floored,&rdquo; Baldridge said. &ldquo;I could not believe he was saying that, and I wish I had it recorded because the man did say this. He said, &lsquo;No other president has ever done something like this,&rsquo; but he said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to do it.&rsquo; &ldquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Well, best case scenario, the dotard forgot his promise until just now.</p><p>The White House responded with a classic media bash.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WH responds: <a href="https://t.co/rwbhXB86Ni">pic.twitter.com/rwbhXB86Ni</a></p>&mdash; Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/920749636989739009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>But many people are dubious of the classic &quot;the check is in the mail move,&quot; and the fact that the father was left hanging for months.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s now October. Father of soldier expresses unhappiness over it. WH blames press for that <a href="https://t.co/Ursw4jtzoe">https://t.co/Ursw4jtzoe</a></p>&mdash; Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/920747870873182208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you believe Trump&#39;s net worth claims, this would be the equivalent of a family with $45,000 in assets giving away 38 cents. <a href="https://t.co/4pfTk1qU8H">https://t.co/4pfTk1qU8H</a></p>&mdash; sean (@SeanMcElwee) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanMcElwee/status/920740793580650497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/MikeOdenthal/status/920741030760210432</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Also worth reading is this story from the report:</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The father of another slain soldier, in that same Washington Post report. <a href="https://t.co/5QZXQVJIQU">https://t.co/5QZXQVJIQU</a> <a href="https://t.co/awzkdZjydt">pic.twitter.com/awzkdZjydt</a></p>&mdash; Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) <a href="https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/920740687611662336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Trump promised a grieving military father $25,000 over the summer. Shockingly, the check is still in the mail.

Today, it was reported that Donald Trump told the pregnant widow of a soldier killed in action that her husband &quot;knew what he was signing up for... but when it happens, it hurts anyway.&quot;He cried &quot;fake news,&quot; as he always does, but the mother of Sgt. La David Johnson told the Washington Post that the president did make that callous remark, and &quot;did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband.&quot; It only got worse as the day went on, when press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the widow for misinterpreting him, &quot;blaming the widow&quot; always the nice thing to do.The Washington Post looked into Trump&#39;s other interactions with gold star families, which he claims are tremendous, yuge, better than Obama&#39;s.Surprisingly, Trump LIED, and hasn&#39;t called all the families of the fallen.Also, @washingtonpost found six Gold Star families were not called as Trump claimed https://t.co/i1O4uvE5Ik pic.twitter.com/xZeTV4u7Jy&mdash; Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) October 18, 2017 And of the ones he did talk to, one episode stands out: Trump promised $25,000 to a grieving father over the summer, and didn&#39;t follow through until the Post reported it: Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Cpl. Dillon Baldridge, told The Washington Post that Trump called him at his home in Zebulon, N.C., a few weeks after his 22-year-old son and two fellow soldiers were gunned down by an Afghan police officer in a suspected insider attack June 10. Their phone conversation lasted about 15 minutes, Baldridge said, and centered for a time on the father&rsquo;s struggle with the manner in which his son was killed. In his call with Trump, Baldridge, a construction worker, expressed frustration with the military&rsquo;s survivor benefits program. Because his ex-wife was listed as their son&rsquo;s beneficiary, she was expected to receive the Pentagon&rsquo;s $100,000 death gratuity &mdash; even though &ldquo;I can barely rub two nickels together,&rdquo; he told Trump. The president&rsquo;s response shocked him. &ldquo;He said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to write you a check out of my personal account for $25,000,&rsquo; and I was just floored,&rdquo; Baldridge said. &ldquo;I could not believe he was saying that, and I wish I had it recorded because the man did say this. He said, &lsquo;No other president has ever done something like this,&rsquo; but he said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to do it.&rsquo; &ldquo; Well, best case scenario, the dotard forgot his promise until just now.The White House responded with a classic media bash.WH responds: pic.twitter.com/rwbhXB86Ni&mdash; Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 18, 2017 But many people are dubious of the classic &quot;the check is in the mail move,&quot; and the fact that the father was left hanging for months.It&#39;s now October. Father of soldier expresses unhappiness over it. WH blames press for that https://t.co/Ursw4jtzoe&mdash; Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 18, 2017 If you believe Trump&#39;s net worth claims, this would be the equivalent of a family with $45,000 in assets giving away 38 cents. https://t.co/4pfTk1qU8H&mdash; sean (@SeanMcElwee) October 18, 2017 https://twitter.com/MikeOdenthal/status/920741030760210432Also worth reading is this story from the report:The father of another slain soldier, in that same Washington Post report. https://t.co/5QZXQVJIQU pic.twitter.com/awzkdZjydt&mdash; Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 18, 2017 

Today, it was reported that Donald Trump told the pregnant widow of a soldier killed in action that her husband &quot;knew what he was signing up for... but when it happens, it hurts anyway.&quot;  He cried &quot;fake news,&quot; as he...