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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe hung up the phone, she looked at me and said, "He didnt even remember his name."
Wilson told MSNBC on Wednesday that Johnson's widow, Myeshia, was shaken by the exchange.
She was crying the whole time, and when she hung up the phone, she looked at me and said, He didnt even remember his name. Thats the hurting part.
Wilson went on to say Trump was almost like joking. He said, Well, I guess you knew 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-factly, that this is what happens, anyone who is signing up for military duty is signing up to die. Thats the way we interpreted it. It was horrible. It was insensitive. It was absolutely crazy, unnecessary. I was livid.
She was in tears. She was in tears. And she said, He didnt even remember his name.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/18/totally-fabricated-trump-disputes-congresswomans-depiction-of-his-exchange-with-soldiers-widow/?utm_term=.ab14a768b6a4
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)jrthin
(4,837 posts)Dont forget this jerks reputation for lying. He lies like the rest of us breathe. He has not a single grain-of-sands worth of empathy or compassion. His track record of wall-to-wall, constant, and consistent dishonesty would compel any objective listener NOT to give him the benefit of the doubt. He squandered that privilege LOOOOONNNNGG ago.
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)she still had/has illusions about him, and so many do. This dysfunctional buffoon could not hurt me, though I'm guessing in grief this call could be extremely upsetting. Everything about this is so wrong.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)When Dump is talking, what comes out of his mouth is often pure poison. This certainly was.
JDC
(10,133 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)If she is so off base Baboon, release the tape you have of the phone call. Release the tape!! Prove us wrong, prove the widow and mother of a dead soldier wrong. DO IT.
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)Because he's completely incapable of empathy
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)Rep. Wilson has set up a scholarship fund for the kids if you are able to help:
https://www.gofundme.com/sgt-la-david-johnson-scholarship
blaze
(6,373 posts)This is a wonderful response.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)almost $316,000 in one day. That's terrific.
It appears these Gold Star children will be getting a high quality education.
Marthe48
(17,018 posts)n/t
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is probably the most despicable thing he has done to date.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)There really is no end to his depravity.
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)for him to sign. He clearly lacks any empathy.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Let's face it, they're all about the worst that society can produce.
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)Marthe48
(17,018 posts)By now, I know it's a junk call and junk mail
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)to a grieving AA military widow. Then they chuckle as they send it "Here's your letter ha ha" and flash their WP finger sign to each other
they are deplorable
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)He has no SOUL.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)fuck him as I said last night, as a child, standing at the flag draped coffin of my father who died in combat, was one of the most heart rending experiences of my life. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like for a spouse and then to have that evil, soul less piece of shit insult her and her husband's sacrifice in that manner is just incomprehensible.
LisaM
(27,830 posts)and I'm sorry you lost your dad. It gives you a place to come from during this event and let us know what it is like, which I appreciate.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)I didn't have all the other practical complications that an adult spouse has. I can't even begin to imagine what that is like...however I did see my mother grieve and live the rest of her life with this burden
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)He has the brain of a psychopath, has no qualms of hurting people and feels no conscience or remorse.....
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm afraid Myeshia Johnson is going to find out very soon what happens when the Nitwit Brigade swings into action. Prepare to be nauseated, everyone.
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)Saying that she should just be grateful that he called.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Fox and Friends are despicable, racist filth to the core. Fox is a treasonous threat to the Nation.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)I guess it just wasn't your husband's day, well at least he died having fun doing what he loved. Here let me give you a discount code so you can get 5% off any orders of $200 or more of my MAGA caps on my website, be sure to let everyone know how beautiful I treated you, and the tremendously sacrifice I made coming here to see you. What was your husband's name again?
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)The Congresswoman let her have it but good. Rep. Wilson has known the deceased since he was a young boy and had mentored him. Rep. Wilson has know the soldier's family for years. The Congresswoman was not making it a political issue but was coming from a position of someone who loved this young man and his family. Good for her.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Thy name is NOT sTrumpet.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Link to tweet
?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F10029724170
Doodley
(9,124 posts)gordianot
(15,243 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Faux pas
(14,690 posts)with sadness and disgust
ffr
(22,671 posts)My jaw can't stop dragging itself on the floor.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)....
fierywoman
(7,694 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 18, 2017, 03:48 PM - Edit history (1)
the widow, the mother, the aunt, the uncle, the Congresswoman, a military guy, the driver of the vehicle and what sounded like the Congresswoman's driver (based upon what the Congresswoman said on The View). That is a lot of people to back up what the Congresswoman said.
Given Dump's track record, I believe the Congresswoman.
fierywoman
(7,694 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,170 posts)I was watching the David Fincher series "Mindhunter" last night and the psychologist character said, about psychopaths, "they don't believe that other people have interior lives".
That describes Trump to a T, a raging narcissist, incapable of empathy, or human decency.
niyad
(113,552 posts)the only thing that WOULD surprise me is if, once, just once, he acted like a normal human being.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)He picked a fight with a gold star family when he was campaigning for the job, what made us think he'd stop once he got it.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I've just returned to work after a family death, and I've not kept up with all of the news of recent weeks. I'm a cube rat at the moment and can't look up the information myself.
But, was the deceased a Black American? Regardless of his skin color, this account of the conversation just makes my blood boil. But if it is as I assume it is, Trump was probably being callous because of his disdain for people not like himself. THAT makes me even angrier.
Trump is hideous.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)tRump is a maggot.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)And YES, tRump IS a maggot. And now trying to lie about the conversation! Unbelieveable!
sarge43
(28,945 posts)Some question if Moron knew this or cared. If a person isn't white or rich or male or better yet all three, in his rat's nest of a mind, that person is a loser. Not worthy of his attention. Kelly probably told him he had to make an effort about the soldiers killed in Niger. The only surprise it wasn't worse and it could have been.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Someone would have told him.
It's disgusting. Simply disgusting. It makes me want to vomit what this asshole has done to my country. Yes, it could have been worse. But it shouldn't be that way. These families have already gone through hell and back, and they don't deserve to be disrespected this way. NONE of them.
trueblue2007
(17,238 posts)I AM SO SORRY FOR MRS. JOHNSON. So sorry. I grieve with her. I too have lost someone very close.
* i lost my mother when i was only 13.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)and let me add a miserable human.
Hell, he's a miserable any species.
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)I ask this question rhetorically, and perhaps a little arrogantly, as an extremely interested Canadian observer. I know a solid majority of Americans would prefer it if this wretchedly pathetic excuse for a human being was no longer their President. Everyone here sure does of course. On DU and the vast majority of Canadians. Nonetheless, I just gotta say it. I just gotta ask. How much fucking longer?
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)"Have a good day!!" ...or " Have fun!"