Trump call 'made me cry even worse'
The widow of a US Army sergeant killed in Niger this month said yesterday that President Donald Trump "made me cry even worse" in a condolence telephone call when he said that her husband "knew what he signed up for."
In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sergeant La David T Johnson, also said she has been told little about how her husband was killed and has not been allowed to see his body.
Johnson's comments, her first to the media about the condolence call from Trump, were likely to fuel a controversy that has swirled for days around the president's handling of the call to the widow.
La David Johnson was one of four US Army soldiers killed on Oct 4 in an attack in the West African nation. Last week, a member of the US House of Representatives, Frederica Wilson, said she had listened to the call from Trump and that he had upset the family by saying Johnson "knew what he signed up for."
That drew a sharp rebuke from the president, who dubbed Wilson "whacky" and denied her account of the call. "I didn't say what that congresswoman said," Trump told reporters last week.
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