Trump: Ask Kelly whether Obama called after his son was killed in action

[riversedge]

Source: CNN


By Dan Merica, CNN

Updated 12:56 PM ET, Tue October 17, 2017


Story highlights

The comment came during an interview on Fox News Radio
"I write letters and I also call," Trump said of himself

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, in defense of his claim that President Barack Obama didn't call the loved ones of fallen soldiers, floated the idea Tuesday that reporters ask his chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, whether Obama called him after his son died in Afghanistan.




"As far as other presidents, I don't know, you could ask Gen. Kelly, did he get a call from Obama? I don't know what Obama's policy was," Trump said.................................


In the first year of Obama's term, 466 American troops died in Iraq and Afghanistan, compared to 25 this year. A spokesman for Obama declined a CNN request for comment about Trump's remarks.


Kelly and his wife, Karen Hernest Kelly, attended a 2011 Memorial Day breakfast for Gold Star families, those men and women whose children were killed in action, according to an aide, speaking on background..............................


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/president-donald-trump-john-kelly-obama-phone-call/index.html

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Soulless Trump opens his stupid mouth yet again.



"Kelly, according to media reports, has tried to keep his son's death private."

[spotthebird]

1. So Kelly attended a WH breakfast in honor of his son (and others)

with the president. But that is insufficient?

I wonder if Kelly knows his boss is dragging his son's memory into this petty shit? When is enough enough?

[Phoenix61]

2. Sadly, apparently never nt

[SpankMe]

3. To think this brainless prick STILL has 40% approval by the bottomfeeders. n/t

[lunasun]

6. Scary

[Botany]

4. Trump is in tub of shit and now he is dunking his head into the shit and yelling ...

.... how the other guy is covered in shit too. Trump is clearly barking fucking mad.
25th amendment time anybody?

[MontanaMama]

5. Kelly has apparently chosen

to trade his integrity for ...what?

History will not be kind to anyone who did not speak truth to power during these dark days.

[Fla Dem]

7. There were 499 US military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq the year(2010)Gen Kelly's son was killed.

It was the highest death toll in the then 10 year war. Unrealistic to expect any president to personally call each family. The dinner was a reasonable alternative to honor the fallen soldiers and their families.


http://icasualties.org/

[Vinca]

9. Obama probably called the soldier's wife.

[vkkv]

8. Classiest Prez ever !!

[Orrex]

10. Would it be considered a crime if someone took an actual shit on Trump's head?

Asking for a friend.

[Sunlei]

13. No please, trumps; poor old Chambermaid has to clean the shit off shitheads' head, hair by hair.

Tell your friend, no.

[Sunlei]

11. Mr Trump you never wrote "a letter" on your own, in your life.

[Gothmog]

12. John Kelly and his wife sat with Michelle Obama at Gold Star family gathering after sons death

President Obama would have personally called the widow and not the father of the slain solider. Here is some more on this https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/john-kelly-and-his-wife-sat-with-michelle-obama-at-gold-star-family-gathering-after-sons-death/

Link to tweet

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Second Lt. Robert Kelly was killed at age 29 while leading a platoon in Afghanistan in November 2010, and his father delivered a speech four days later about military sacrifices and the troops’ growing isolation from society.

His father has largely avoided speaking publicly about his family’s loss since then, and asked the Marine Corps officer who introduced him ahead of that impassioned speech not to mention his son.

“We are only one of 5,500 American families who have suffered the loss of a child in this war,” Kelly told the Washington Post six years ago. “The death of my boy simply cannot be made to seem any more tragic than the others.”

[Loyd]

14. We don't need Mueller to rid us of this slimy, diseased, lower-than-scum "president"

We need the Orkin Man.

[yurbud]

15. what an idiot