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Lucylastic -> ‘Disrespectful lie’: Anger grows over Trump’s claims (10/17/2017 9:33:12 AM)
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about past presidents and fallen troops
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/17/disrespectful-lie-anger-grows-over-trumps-claims-that-past-presidents-didnt-honor-fallen-troops/?undefined=&utm_term=.cb48b83d3ab1&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Anger sparked by President Trump’s false claims on Monday that former president Barack Obama and other past presidents did not reach out to families of fallen American troops swelled into the night.
Near midnight Monday, former U.S. attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., who in 2009 accompanied Obama to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to witness the return of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan, tweeted for Trump to “stop the damn lying.” He added, “I went to Dover AFB with 44 and saw him comfort the families of both the fallen military & DEA.”
Eric Holder ✔@EricHolder
Stop the damn lying - you’re the President. I went to Dover AFB with 44 and saw him comfort the families of both the fallen military & DEA.
11:33 PM - Oct 16, 2017
Retired Army general Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2011 to 2015, said in a tweet that Obama and President George W. Bush “and first ladies cared deeply, worked tirelessly for the serving, the fallen, and their families,” adding, “Not politics. Sacred Trust.”
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GEN(R) Marty Dempsey ✔@Martin_Dempsey
POTUS 43 & 44 and first ladies cared deeply, worked tirelessly for the serving, the fallen, and their families. Not politics. Sacred Trust.
9:54 PM - Oct 16, 2017
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Trump sparked the controversy with a casual comment in a disjointed news conference Monday in the Rose Garden.
When asked by a reporter why he had not spoken publicly about the four U.S. Special Forces members who were killed in an ambush in Niger nearly two weeks ago, Trump responded he was going to send their families letters, which were drafted over the weekend, justifying his behavior by reference to the practices of other presidents.
“If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls. A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I am able to do it,” he said. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker judged his description “false.”
Though he later seemed to take back the claim, saying that Obama “probably did” write letters “sometimes,” there was an immediate reaction that intensified through the night.
Ben Rhodes, who served as Obama’s deputy national security adviser, called the statement “an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards.”
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Ben Rhodes ✔@brhodes
This is an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards. Also: Obama never attacked a Gold Star family. https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/919988979373608961 …
2:15 PM - Oct 16, 2017 · Washington, DC
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Also: Obama never attacked a Gold Star family,” Rhodes added, likely referring to Trump’s lashing out at Khizr Khan, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq who criticized him at the Democratic National Convention last year.
Several people tweeted a piece written by Dana Perino, who served as President George W. Bush’s press secretary, recalling a day when Bush visited wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and “meekly accepted the rage of a grieving mother,” as David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, tweeted.
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David Frum ✔@davidfrum
More at the link.....
I watched the "presser"
The news chap actually called him out on his lie.....you watch his eyes.... its so telling.
Its about time they called him out on his blatant bullshit
He still didnt discuss the green berets that were killed in Niger...just that (12 days after) letters were sent out yesterday.
In the words of Rex Tillerson, he is a fucking moron.
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