No transcript of call to slain soldier’s wife
THERE IS NO transcript of the controversial condolence call President Trump made to the family of a slain soldier, the White House said Friday — despite a reference to one in an in terview with Trump’s daughter-in-law. Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt asked Lara Trump, Eric Trump’s wife, about the President’s words during an interview on “Fox & Friends.” Trump publicly denied telling the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson that he “knew what he signed up for,” which his chief of staff John Kelly later indicated he had said. “You read the transcript. What were your thoughts?” Earhardt asked Lara Trump Friday morning. Lara Trump replied that having “read exactly what he said” she was under the impression that the media distorted her father-in-law’s words. “He said, ‘Your husband went into battle, you know, knowing that he could be injured, knowing that he could be killed, and he still did it because he loved this country, and he did it for the American people,’ ” Lara Trump said. “I can’t think of a better way, quite frankly, to express my gratitude to someone than by saying something like that.” But there is no transcript of the call, a White House official told the Daily News. “I believe she was responding to reports and things she read,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders added. Trump has faced a volley of criticism after Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a longtime family friend of the Johnsons, said he was disrespectful toward Johnson’s widow, Myeshia, when he called her Tuesday.