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<p>Donald Trump, speaking to the pregnant widow of Sgt. La David Johnson after the soldier was killed during a mission in Niger, said her husband &quot;knew what he was signing up for... but when it happens, it hurts anyway.&quot;</p><p>That&#39;s according to Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, from Florida, who says she <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2017/10/18/frederica-wilson-trump-told-miami-widow-of-dead-solider-he-knew-what-he-was-signing-up-for/" target="_blank">listened in on the five minute call</a> from Trump on <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-gardens/article179433356.html" target="_blank">speakerphone</a>. &quot;Yeah, he said that,&quot; Wilson <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/florida/miami-dade/remains-of-u-s-army-sgt-la-david-johnson-return-to-miami" target="_blank">told local news</a>. &quot;So insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn&#39;t have said it.&quot;</p><p>The morning after the news broke, Trump took to Twitter to vehemently deny the veracity of Wilson&#39;s account.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/920611770775064576?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>&quot;Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof),&quot; wrote Trump. &quot;Sad!&quot;</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/NicCageMatch/status/920630279030673408</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Trump has claimed to have proof over a negative news story like this before. Most relevantly <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/donald-trump-james-comey-tapes-twitter/">when he tweeted</a> &quot;James Comey better hope that there are no &#39;tapes&#39; of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/22/trump-says-he-has-no-recordings-of-his-comey-talks-239862" target="_blank">There were no tapes.</a></p><p>Sgt. La David Johnson&#39;s widow, Myeshia Johnson, is pregnant with their third child. Read the entire harrowing account of her experience receiving her husband&#39;s body at the Miami International Airport, <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/florida/miami-dade/remains-of-u-s-army-sgt-la-david-johnson-return-to-miami" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Congresswoman Frederica Wilson elaborated on Trump&#39;s phone call with a quote to the <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-gardens/article179433356.html" target="_blank"><em>Miami Herald</em></a>:</p><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s so insensitive. It&rsquo;s crazy. Why do you need to say that?&rsquo;&rsquo; Wilson asked. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t say that to someone who lost family, the father, the breadwinner. You can say, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m so sorry for your loss. He&rsquo;s a hero.&rsquo;</p> <p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m livid. He can&rsquo;t even have an open-coffin funeral because his body is so messed up.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>On MSNBC, Wilson<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/watch-the-msnbc-interview-with-rep-frederica-wilson-that-set-trump-off-on-crazed-twitter-rant/"> shared more info</a> on the program <em>Morning Joe</em>.</p><p>&quot;That&#39;s not the worst part. She was crying the whole time, and when she hung up the phone, she looked at me and said, &#39;He didn&#39;t even remember his name.&#39; That&#39;s the hurting part.&quot;</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/watch-the-msnbc-interview-with-rep-frederica-wilson-that-set-trump-off-on-crazed-twitter-rant/" target="_blank">Raw Story</a>, she also said:</p><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;He was almost like joking. He said, &lsquo;Well, I guess you knew&rsquo; &mdash; something to the effect that he knew what he was getting into when he signed up, but I guess it hurts anyway. You know, just matter of factually, that this happens &mdash; anyone who is signing up for military duty is signing up to die. That&rsquo;s the way we interpreted it, and it was horrible. It was insensitive, it was absolutely crazy, unnecessary. I was livid.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The immediate replies to Trump&#39;s statement were utter disbelief. Namely&mdash;people would appreciate seeing the proof.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What was fabricated? What did you really say then?</p>&mdash; HillReporter.com (@HillReporter) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillReporter/status/920611987939262465?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/EdKrassen/status/920612115890745344</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;He knew what he signed up for.&quot; <br>—President Donald J. Trump</p>&mdash; Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/920617351288119296?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">Publish the proof.</p>&mdash; Mike Holden (@MikeHolden42) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeHolden42/status/920611830854291456?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/ajdomanico/status/920611995078062081</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The latest controversy comes on the heels of Trump&#39;s claim that Obama didn&#39;t call the families of fallen soldiers.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="someecards-embed" id="someecards-embed-3738914" data-id="3738914" data-type="post" data-url="https://napi.someecards.com/embed/post/trump-press-conference-obama-lies-soldiers/"><a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/trump-press-conference-obama-lies-soldiers/" target="_blank"> Trump lied about Obama at today&#039;s press conference. He was promptly shut down. </a></blockquote><script async src="//cdn.someecards.com/assets/embed/embed-v1.07.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Stay tuned.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Trump tweets he has proof he didn't say that horrible thing to a fallen soldier's pregnant widow.

Donald Trump, speaking to the pregnant widow of Sgt. La David Johnson after the soldier was killed during a mission in Niger, said her husband &quot;knew what he was signing up for... but when it happens, it hurts anyway.&quot;That&#39;s according to Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, from Florida, who says she listened in on the five minute call from Trump on speakerphone. &quot;Yeah, he said that,&quot; Wilson told local news. &quot;So insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn&#39;t have said it.&quot;The morning after the news broke, Trump took to Twitter to vehemently deny the veracity of Wilson&#39;s account.Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2017 &quot;Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof),&quot; wrote Trump. &quot;Sad!&quot;https://twitter.com/NicCageMatch/status/920630279030673408Trump has claimed to have proof over a negative news story like this before. Most relevantly when he tweeted &quot;James Comey better hope that there are no &#39;tapes&#39; of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!&quot;There were no tapes.Sgt. La David Johnson&#39;s widow, Myeshia Johnson, is pregnant with their third child. Read the entire harrowing account of her experience receiving her husband&#39;s body at the Miami International Airport, here.Congresswoman Frederica Wilson elaborated on Trump&#39;s phone call with a quote to the Miami Herald: &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s so insensitive. It&rsquo;s crazy. Why do you need to say that?&rsquo;&rsquo; Wilson asked. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t say that to someone who lost family, the father, the breadwinner. You can say, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m so sorry for your loss. He&rsquo;s a hero.&rsquo; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m livid. He can&rsquo;t even have an open-coffin funeral because his body is so messed up.&quot; On MSNBC, Wilson shared more info on the program Morning Joe.&quot;That&#39;s not the worst part. She was crying the whole time, and when she hung up the phone, she looked at me and said, &#39;He didn&#39;t even remember his name.&#39; That&#39;s the hurting part.&quot;According to Raw Story, she also said: &ldquo;He was almost like joking. He said, &lsquo;Well, I guess you knew&rsquo; &mdash; something to the effect that he knew what he was getting into when he signed up, but I guess it hurts anyway. You know, just matter of factually, that this happens &mdash; anyone who is signing up for military duty is signing up to die. That&rsquo;s the way we interpreted it, and it was horrible. It was insensitive, it was absolutely crazy, unnecessary. I was livid.&rdquo; The immediate replies to Trump&#39;s statement were utter disbelief. Namely&mdash;people would appreciate seeing the proof.What was fabricated? What did you really say then?&mdash; HillReporter.com (@HillReporter) October 18, 2017 https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/920612115890745344&quot;He knew what he signed up for.&quot; —President Donald J. Trump&mdash; Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) October 18, 2017 Publish the proof.&mdash; Mike Holden (@MikeHolden42) October 18, 2017 https://twitter.com/ajdomanico/status/920611995078062081The latest controversy comes on the heels of Trump&#39;s claim that Obama didn&#39;t call the families of fallen soldiers. Trump lied about Obama at today&#039;s press conference. He was promptly shut down. Stay tuned.

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson shared the comments Donald Trump made to the widow of David Johnson after the soldier was killed during a mission in Niger.