An emotional Gen. John Kelly addressed the media at Thursday’s White House press briefing, setting the record straight relating to the controversy surrounding President Trump’s phone called with, Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson. Kelly confirmed Obama did not call him after his son was killed in Afghanistan.
General Kelly was the highest-ranking military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.
FOX News reported:
President Trump doubled down Tuesday on his controversial claim that past presidents didn’t properly console the families of fallen servicemembers, raising the point that Barack Obama apparently did not call now-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly after his son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
“You could ask General Kelly, did you get a call from Obama? You could ask other people. I don’t know what Obama’s policy was,” Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade on his radio show on Tuesday.
An administration official confirmed that Obama did not make a condolence call to Kelly, who was the highest-ranking military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.
And Navy SEAL mother Karen Vaughn accused Barack Obama of honoring fallen SEALS by sending their parents a form letter signed by an auto-pen.
On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs were killed in the crash.
In 2012, Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn, spoke at the Defending the Defenders forum sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots outside the RNC Convention in Tampa. Karen brought a copy of the form letter they were sent following their son’s death.
It’s a form letter.
It was signed by an electric pen.
That’s not all.
Karen Vaughn reached out to the parents of the other SEALs killed in that crash.
Their letters were all the same.
Form letters – signed by an electric pen.
Here’s a closer look at the letter sent to the parents of Chief Petty Officer Nicholas H. Null.
It’s the same form letter.
This was an Obama campaign photo op.
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Not this…
What a stunning address by Gen. John Kelly! Chief of Staff took the media and Democrat Congresswomen Rep Frederica Wilson during today’s White House press briefing.
President Trump was RIGHT. Obama did NOT call Kelly after his son was killed in action.
Kelly: “Obama “did not call my family. That was not a criticism. That was just to simply say I don’t believe President Obama called.”
Kelly: Obama "did not call my family. That was not a criticism. That was just to simply say I don’t believe President Obama called." http://pic.twitter.com/CNkppXqPMF
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 19, 2017
Kelly: “It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation. It stuns me”
Kelly: "It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation. It stuns me"
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 19, 2017
An emotional Kelly recalled the hours that followed after his son was killed.
“Hours after my son was killed, his friends we’re calling us from Afghanistan…those are the only phone calls that really matter.”
Kelly: "Hours after my son was killed, his friends we're calling us from Afghanistan…those are the only phone calls that really matter." http://pic.twitter.com/F1gM6GOxmw
— ABC News (@ABC) October 19, 2017
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