‘He didn't even remember his name'
His name was La
David T. Johnson.
His wife's name is
Myeshia Johnson.
The congresswoman from Florida is Frederica Wilson.
You would know none of this from
Donald Trump's public statement
Wednesday:
"I had a very nice conversation with the woman, with the wife, who sounded like a lovely woman." He also asserted, "I didn't say what that congresswoman said, didn't say it at all. She knows it."
The woman.
The wife.
That congresswoman.
This is a Trump habit. If he doesn't name them as fellow humans, maybe he can pretend they're not quite real.
Millions of Americans know otherwise. Let us start with the 25-year-old man who was not even mentioned. He is Army Sgt. La David Johnson, a member of the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He and three other men were killed in an ambush in Niger on Oct. 4. Their names are Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright.
Sgt. Johnson was the father of a 2-yearold boy and a 6-year-old girl. "The woman" — "the wife" — is his widow. Again, her name is Myeshia Johnson. She is pregnant with their third child.
As video and photographs documented for all the world to see, Myeshia Johnson was overcome at the sight of her husband's flag-draped casket, which arrived yesterday at Miami International Airport. She leaned over his casket, sobbing and murmuring, as her little girl stood silently next to her.
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