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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNot only did Trump NOT contact all the families-WH did NOT even have an up-to-date list of deaths!
Exclusive: Pentagon Document Contradicts Trumps Gold Star ClaimsEmail undermines veracity of presidents statement about Gold Star contacts
In the hours after President Donald Trump said on an Oct. 17 radio broadcast that he had contacted nearly every family that had lost a military servicemember this year, the White House was hustling to learn from the Pentagon the identities and contact information for those families, according to an internal Defense Department email.
The email exchange, which has not been previously reported, shows that senior White House aides were aware on the day the president made the statement that it was not accurate but that they should try to make it accurate as soon as possible, given the gathering controversy.
Not only had the president not contacted virtually all the families of military personnel killed this year, the White House did not even have an up-to-date list of those who had been killed.
The exchange between the White House and the Defense secretarys office occurred about 5 p.m. on Oct. 17. The White House asked the Pentagon for information about surviving family members of all servicemembers killed after Trumps inauguration so that the president could be sure to contact all of them.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/after-trump-claim-white-house-still-lacked-casualty-list
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Not only did Trump NOT contact all the families-WH did NOT even have an up-to-date list of deaths! (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2017
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Kali
(55,008 posts)1. what a colossal orange FAILURE
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. I don't usually believe in conspiracy theories, but
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)3. How stupid do you have to be.........
to lie when it is SO easy to fact-check just about everything!
Well, I guess Orange Cheat-o continues to show us....................
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)4. Of course. Everything he says is a lie.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)5. everything about this man is a lie...