Widow: Trump didn’t know husband’s name

WASHINGTON — A fallen soldier’s widow criticized President Donald Trump on Monday over his condolence call last week, prompting a fresh Trump Twitter rebuttal as the emotional conflict case showed no sign of abating.

Myeshia Johnson, La David Johnson’s widow, spoke for the first time on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” In the somber interview, she supported a congresswoman’s statements that Trump had said her husband “knew what he signed up for” and at one point could not remember her husband’s name.

“Yes, the president said that ‘he knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyway.’ And it made me cry ‘cause I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said he couldn’t remember my husband’s name,” Johnson said. “The only way he remembered my husband’s name is because he told me he had my husband’s report in front of him and that’s when he actually said La David.”

The president answered back on Twitter soon after the interview aired, saying: “I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!”

Monday’s pointed exchange was the latest in an ongoing dispute over how Trump responded to the deaths of four service members Oct. 4 in the African nation of Niger. The clash over the call began last week when Democratic Rep. Frederica Johnson accused Trump of being callous in the conversation and Trump retorted that Wilson’s account was fabricated.