Press cleaves Frederica Wilson's quote from Trump to soldier's widow
by Eddie Scarry | Oct 20, 2017, 12:01 AM
Democratic Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson this week relayed what she described as an "insensitive" phone call from President Trump to the widow of a U.S. soldier who died in Niger, but many news reports describing that conversation have been omitting a key part of that quote that tempered the tone of Trump's message.
As reported initially by NBC Miami, Wilson said that Trump "sarcastically" told the widow, "You know, he must've known what he signed up for." Wilson complained, "How could you say that to a grieving widow?"
That night, in an interview on CNN, Wilson offered a more detailed quote from the call, which she said the widow, Myeshia Johnson, took while the two were in a limousine and on speakerphone.
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