Mrs. Johnson confirms to ABC News that she did not write this post. It is DEPLORABLE fake

[kpete]

Last edited Sun Oct 22, 2017, 03:55 PM - Edit history (3)

Mrs. Johnson will be on Good Morning America tomorrow 10/23 speaking for herself.

Link to tweet

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and this too:

Right-wing FB pages are sharing versions of the Trump troop call video with the offending portions edited out and saying the media is lying

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Conservative social media users circulated an image of a purported Facebook post from 17 October 2017 which they said showed Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson accusing Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Florida) of exploiting a presidential condolence call over the death of her husband, U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson, for political gain:

https://snopes.com/myeshia-johnson-facebook-post/

[SummerSnow]

1. What levels of debauchery Trump won't sink to.

[YOHABLO]

40. Yeah the right wing turds will suck this up no doubt. Totally disgusting human beings all of them

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Did this come from

the Russian BOT network?

[Ford_Prefect]

3. Either that or the GOP Hacker squad in the White House sub-basement, or straight from Kelly's desk.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Puzzeling thing,

the language tends to appear to be written by a pro. Done for effect as well as a questionable intent.

[Sanity Claws]

54. But misspelled by

Used “buy” instead of “by”
That doesn’t look too professional to me.

[Ford_Prefect]

59. Intentional hacker error to fit her "profile" as a black woman? Or spell check screwing up again?

[GoCubsGo]

89. If not from a bot, then it came from one of his cult followers.

They have been all over social media today, defending the Dotard, and smearing Mrs. Johnson, Rep. Wilson, and "libtards." His supporters are as despicable as he is.

[gratuitous]

4. Has the administration denounced this despicable trollery?

Until they do, this tweet belongs to them.

[Freethinker65]

5. Stupid thing for anyone to do; even more stupid for anyone to repeat it without verification

The media would obviously go to the “source” to verify or disavow.

[boston bean]

6. Is that her twitter and it was hacked or is it a fake acct altogether.

[LisaL]

7. I think it's a fake post being circulated.

[boston bean]

9. I think I understand now. Maggots faked a facebook post image and circulated it on twitter.

[LisaL]

12. That also is my understanding of the situation.

I don't think it ever appeared on her facebook. I think it's a fake post that is being circulated on twitter as if coming from her facebook.

[progree]

22. Yup - the Facebook post is fake according to Snopes:

While the date of the post corresponds with that of the 17 October 2017 condolence call, the time listed is actually more than an hour before the reported time of President Trump’s phone call, which was 4:45 p.m. Eastern time.

Also, the picture shows a Facebook profile bearing a square profile picture. But the social media site implemented an update in August 2017 that changed the shape of users’ profile pictures in the Facebook newsfeed from square to round,

https://snopes.com/myeshia-johnson-facebook-post/

[SunSeeker]

39. Just like he faked Time Magazine covers. nt

[Iliyah]

8. GOPers have no shame

[malaise]

10. That sure is DEPLORABLE

spelling

[TeeYiYi]

16. Obvious is obvious...

Even buy her own words she did not hear all of the conversation she only heard part of it.

...with the misspelled words and paucity of punctuation.

TYY

[malaise]

20. Hilarious

They are evil 'morans'

[BadgerMom]

11. Regulate social media companies!

That or we abandon all of them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Better start abandoning. There is not much effective regulation that can be done.

Maybe force companies to remove fake news as soon as it is confirmed to be fake news, but then who is the trusted arbiter / judge of that and how timely will they be in making judgments like that, etc.

Not simple.

Simplistic solutions don't work and have many unintended consequences.

Also, the First Amendment gives people the right to lie.

[Amimnoch]

42. Agree, but there should be better avenues to pursue within existing laws.

In this case, there's several already illegal acts the perpetrators engaged in:

Criminal impersonation right off the top of my head comes to mind.

I'm also thinking identity theft could also be applied since a fraudulent statement in the person's name was made.

[AllyCat]

13. MAGATs are deplorable people

[George II]

14. Even "buy" her own words?????? Must have been written by trump.

[calimary]

25. I saw that, too.

[red dog 1]

15. K&R

What's really deplorable is the stench coming from the White House for the past 9 months.

(Is Snopes.com the only source for this?)

[Sunlei]

18. Kellyanne? is the trump hired "social media expert", it's her business, ask her.

[calimary]

27. Or little darling perfect "Secretary of Everything" Jared, who was put in charge of social media

during the campaign. Or I bet he'd know who did.

[Tanuki]

30. Or 45's (cough) "Communications Director" Hope Hicks....

[SunSeeker]

24. What part of fake post do you not get?

And no, it's not possible. Wilson heard the whole call, as did the other family members in the car. Myesha Johndon put the phone on speaker when she got the call.

But your concern is duly noted.

[SunSeeker]

43. OFFS. KELLY ALREADY CONFIRMED WILSON'S VERSION OF THE CALL IS CORRECT.

Kelly recounted how when he got a call about his son, that among the things he was told was that his "son knew what he was getting into, but that it still hurts." Kelly apparently relayed that line to Trump and Trump fumbled the line to "he knew what he was getting into, but I guess it still hurts" when talking to Myeshia, and sounded awful. Then when it was obvious he fumbled it, instead of apologizing, he went on the attack.

Watch Kelly's presser.

[SunSeeker]

56. Well, the "end sentence" did not make up for the fumble.

He had the widow in tears with that badly delivered "he knew what he was getting into..." line. He did not even say La David's name, he just referred to him as "your guy." He should have just apologized for how his awkward words were taken and moved on. Instead, he attacked Wilson all week, and now his minions are attacking Myeshia with a fake post. Trump sucks at his job. And Trumpistas suck at being human.

[humbled_opinion]

58. Yes agree terrible situation.

[Chemisse]

66. I suspect this message sounded a whole lot different when Trump voiced it.

Because he doesn't understand the sentiment underlying what Kelly said. So Trump said it, then added, But I suppose you are still upset though (or something like that), suggesting the soldier basically asked for it.

Even Kelly's comments, said in the way he stated them, would upset families, in my opinion.

[mcar]

38. Do you realize this is a fake FB post?

[humbled_opinion]

41. Yes but I was talking about the

broader issue of the exchange, none of it makes sense to me. Don't call = OK, but Call and be offensive, has anyone asked why there was no direct feed back by the family listening, i.e., a gasp, a scream etc, if it were me I would have said hold on are you really that stupid to call us in such a hurtful manner, and we are going to be letting the media know about this offensive phone call, etc. Like I said doesn't smell right to me.

[LisaL]

45. What are you talking about?

How would you know if there was direct feedback by the family listening or not?

[humbled_opinion]

49. I wouldn't but I think that

Congresswoman Wilson would have already brought that up, she was there why didn't she give direct feedback?

[mcar]

53. Congresswoman Wilson did say

That the widow broke into tears and said of the Dotard: "He didn't even say his name." That's really easy to find.

[mercuryblues]

55. give it up

you are trying to defend trump with what ifs, I don't knows and saying the family or the Congresswoman did not do what they actually did do.



It has been reported that the widow did break down and cried that he didn't even know his name. He kept saying "your guy"
Family members reported they were shocked by the tone of the call and what was said. He never called the widow by name. The parents verified the Congresswoman's account.

But let's just ignore all the lies that have been coming out of the WH about this and argue what ifs.

Now this FAKE post circulating that Mrs. Johnson confirmed she did not write. There is only one side of this story that has consistently lied about what happened and it wasn't the Johnson family.

Now this is added onto the weight of Mrs. Johnson's grief.

[humbled_opinion]

57. Yes the entire

episode is bizarre on so many levels, but the biggest question I have is why this family? 3 other calls were made and this family seems to be the one that was targeted for the insensitivity, but then again this family was the only one that also had a politician in on the receiving end of the call, so there is that. Strange indeed.

[Denzil_DC]

60. Given the revolting smears by the administration and others,

any grieving family that decided to publicize their negative reaction to a "condolence" call by Trump would be adding prolonged pain to an already extremely painful situation.

Why are you expecting them to do that to themselves just so you may be able to accept that Trump is lacking in empathy and incapable of expressing basic sympathy without making the situation worse?

[mercuryblues]

63. what you keep

referring to as a politician has also been a close family friend for quite some time. Johnson graduated from her mentoring program. His 2 younger brothers are now in her mentoring program. So it is not at all strange that she was there for the family when during a time of need.

[betsuni]

65. CONSPIRACY!!!!!!11111!!!!!!!

[druidity33]

67. The only Black family? nt.

[brer cat]

69. What seems bizarre and strange

is your determination to excuse trump for his boorish and insensitive remarks. Your comments about "this family" and Congresswoman Wilson sound like you have a problem with Black women.

[herding cats]

73. This reads like a bad parody.

Is parody your intention? If so you need work on your technique a bit. You're missing the mark and coming across as intentionally obtuse, not witty tongue-in-cheek.

[Iggo]

84. It happened because the guy you're defending fucking sucks at being a decent human being.

[Ilsa]

62. Did you not hear Kelly say that DOTUS

told him he didn't know what to say, and Kelly tried to school him in empathy, but taught him the wrong lesson? And since then, there has been nothing but a smear campaign against Wilson and the Johnson family?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Which or what "Trump troop call video"? Search with that term is inconclusive.

What are the offending portions?

Is there some video of tRump calling Mrs. Johnson?

Or is Matt Bruenig being imprecise and inaccurate by referring to the transcript but calling it "video"?

What does his tweet refer to, really?

[SunSeeker]

36. No. There is a video of a recent call Trump made to A DIFFERENT WIDOW that is going around.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/10/20/gold-star-widow-phone-call-trump-alencar-jnd-full.cnn/video/playlists/trumps-comments-about-the-military/

Although the soldier killed appears to be white, unlike La David Johnson, the widow in the video is a black woman. So maybe people are confusing her with Myeshia Johnson, which is maybe why the right is pushing that video to somehow suggest that is what Trump really said to Myeshia Johnson. But he called Myeshia Johnson while she was in a car on the way to the airport to pick up her husband's body. This video appears to be at this other woman's home, accompanied by other soldiers, as you can see in the video. It also appears to show that Trump has learned a thing or two about how to make these calls since his horrible call with Ms. Johnson.

Interesting how Kelly is not complaining about the release of this video of this "sacred conversation" as he termed these calls, when he objected to Trump's call with Myeshia Johnson being divulged.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

64. Thanks! That goes a long way to unconfusing me. . . . . nt

[MrScorpio]

26. Wingers lie.

They even lie to themselves.

[lancelyons]

28. whoever did this should be outed and publicly shamed. We have to rid the country of this stink

whoever did this should be outed and publicly shamed. We have to rid the country of this stink from the RIGHT.

This is common for the right. The operate on fake news, false and manufactured news. They spread lies as they have been taught by fox news.

[democratisphere]

29. fakebook is out of control and has no control.

This fake propoganda tool needs to be shutdown.

[whopis01]

81. You do realize that the fake posting was never on Facebook, don't you?

Someone made a graphic that looks like a Facebook post. They didn't even do a very good job of it - they got the border style on the poster's avatar wrong. Also the time stamp doesn't line up with the call time.

Then they posted that graphic on other web sites.

This really has nothing to do with Facebook - other than some right-winger is trying to get you to believe that it does.

[democratisphere]

82. Check it out.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41719914

[whopis01]

85. That article confirms everything I just said

There was never any Facebook post.

Some right-winger made a graphic designed to look like a Facebook post, and then started sending it around via Twitter and other mechanisms.

They wanted to fool people into thinking that it was an actual Facebook post (which appears to have worked).

From the link you posted:


"The time listed is actually more than an hour before the reported time of President Trump's phone call, which was 4.45pm Eastern time."
In addition the profile picture shows a square image but Facebook introduced an update two months ago changing the shape of users profiles from square to round.


The creator of the image clearly used an older Facebook post as a template. They didn't update the profile picture format and they put the wrong timestamp on it.

[democratisphere]

86. I understand the origin was not from fakebook BUT it was virally circulated

on fakebook. fakebook is a very destructive propoganda tool. It is indefensible.

[whopis01]

87. Actually it was Twitter where it spread virally.

On Facebook it would have been obvious that it was fake, because there was no link back to any actual post.

Twitter is the real culprit here.

[ladym55]

31. This has to stop.

This young woman has just lost her husband under horrific circumstances. She has two little ones and a baby on the way. So instead of being permitted to grieve her great loss, she must be the political football of the heartless and vile GOP and tRump White House. I'm sure she wants to go on GMA tomorrow morning to deal with this latest giant pile of flaming dog poop.

[jmowreader]

32. This "so called politician" is a friend of the Johnson family

General Secretary Trump strikes again! And you can't even pull the Joseph Welch "at long last, have you left no sense of decency?" gambit with GST because he never had any decency to begin with.

Seriously guys, Frederica Wilson has known La David Johnson since he was a kid. He was in her mentoring program, and they stayed close after that. There's absolutely no way anyone who knows Sergeant Johnson would call Rep. Wilson a "so called politician."

And Trump would never say what the fake Myeshia (who is either Jared Kushner, or one of his minions at the Ministry of Propaganda) claims he said. It's not the language he uses.

[nolabear]

33. Tell us again about sacred, Kelly.

[not fooled]

34. Hey, there's trillions at stake

for the GOPee in looting the country. What's a little falsification to achieve such great and glorious ends?

To the GOPee, their ends always justify their means.


But even so, if the country wasn't full of gullible idiots, this crap wouldn't work.

[WinkyDink]

70. In. A. Nutshell.

[mcar]

35. She just buried her husband and they are using her for political gain

These lying racist scumbags have no morals, no values, no conscience.

[humbled_opinion]

44. The other side would argue

that is exactly what Congresswoman Wilson is doing since she was the one that brought this up in the media.

[mcar]

48. The other side are deplorable soulless monsters

I don't care what they would argue. They are wrong. What do you think?

[humbled_opinion]

51. I think

Trump is an idiot and a buffoon, his being President is against everything I believe in, but there is a long way from that point to actually intentionally disrespecting the sacrifice of our military, it is just not an argument that I am inclined to make.

[mcar]

52. But you are inclined, seemingly, to judging the Congresswoman

for her actions. OK.

[mercuryblues]

71. Very concerned

about how strange the congresswoman seems to be.

[left-of-center2012]

46. Has this widow not suffered enough?

What right wing piece of _____ (trash?) thought this up and is compounding her agony?

[The_Casual_Observer]

50. I've already seen it posted on some shithead Facebook

Pages. The kind of pages where the idiot can't help but defend trump in some post by a democratic themed page. Thats where you can keep up with the latest rw bullshit if you can stomach it.
typically as you might expect they are repeating false bullshit stuff like that.

[dalton99a]

61. Kick.

[pansypoo53219]

68. makes me think about wizard of oz's flying monkey's.

[Gothmog]

72. That is a fake tweet

[sellitman]

74. Phony R Us.

It looks like the Renoir painting that he has isn't the only fake.

[cwydro]

75. Seriously? Who can misspell the word by?

Whoever wrote this is close to illiterate.

[LisaL]

78. Or English isn't their first language.

[procon]

76. Russians.

[ET Awful]

77. Two things to note . . first, the date format.

Not sure if Snopes pointed this out - the default data format for a US user of Facebook would be "October 17", not "17 October'. I'm sure there's a way to change that, but I doubt most people would go through the effort.

Second (and I think Snopes did mention this), the Avatar picture is square, Facebook has round avatar images.

This indicates 2 things - A: The image is not from Facebook, and B: It likely originated outside the US.

[Ford_Prefect]

79. Imagine that...........and the old BS media train keeps right on rollin'!

MSM can't form a clear thought that doesn't lead to the next click bait lie of a sensational headline, can they?

[Blue_Tires]

80. Conservatives really hate black women, don't they?

[Iggo]

83. It's a fraud and it's a lie.

Fuck "deplorable." Fuck "fake news." Those words don't mean anything anymore.

[mainstreetonce]

88. What if someone related to Trump did this?

I hope they find out who did this.

I put nothing past Trump.