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Please answer me honestly. Do you really think Trump called the widow of a recently deceased soldier to essentially say "if he didnt want to die he shouldn't of signed up, stop crying about it" and General Kelly is disingenuously covering his ass and politicizing his own son or.... and I know this may be hard to grasp, but in the context of Trump's full call it was actually a completely different message and General Kelly is disgusted in the fact that this Congresswoman (who misspelled the name of this soldier} is the one politicizing a dead soldier?
I don't think it was Trump's intent. Kelly said Trump asked him what he should say and Kelly relayed what Gen Dunford said to him when calling about his son being KIA. And part of that message from Dunford to Kelly was "he knew what he was signing up for". But the difference is that Kelly and Dunford are military men and long time friends - advice and comfort between military families and long time friends would sound different than to a civilian from a total stranger. Kelly repeatedly stated "Trump tried to say; was trying to say" - basically acknowledged that what he was trying to say and what he conveyed might have been two different things.
Even if you want to take Congresswoman Wilson's description of what was said out, the mother of the soldier said the following -
“President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband,” Jones-Johnson said.
So you have the Gold Star mother claiming she felt disrespected by the President in the phone call - Do you maybe think "Yeah, Trump might have botched the message attempt here" and instead of calling everybody a liar and that he never said "He knew what he signed up for" when we know he did in fact say that he could have just said it certainly wasn't his intent and he apologized for any further pain he might have caused this family at this trying time.
Also to your mention of spelling mistake - Congresswoman misspelling versus President referring to him as "your guy" during the call and never using his name?