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Donald Trump contradicts grieving widow's phone call account and claims he 'spoke his name from beginning' Donald Trump contradicts grieving widow's phone call account and claims he 'spoke his name from beginning'
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Donald Trump has said he spoke the name of Sgt. La David Johnson "from the beginning" of a conversation with the serviceman's widow – after being accused of forgetting the name of the soldier who died during an ambush in Niger. Donald Trump has claimed he spoke the name of Sgt. La David Johnson "from the beginning" of a conversation with the serviceman's widow – contradicting the wife's account of the President's condolence call after her husband was killed during an ambush in Niger. 
Myeshia Johnson took the call from President Trump last week, saying the call "made me cry even worse”. She said she is still waiting to hear answers about the circumstances of Mr Johnson's death and that Mr Trump struggled "to remember my husband's name". Myeshia Johnson took the call from Mr Trump last week, saying it "made me cry even worse". She said what hurt her the most was that the President struggled "to remember my husband's name". 
“I heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband's name, and that’s what hurt me the most because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country why can’t you remember his name,” Ms Johnson told ABC's Good Morning America. “I heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband's name, and that’s what hurt me the most because if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country why can’t you remember his name,” Ms Johnson told ABC's Good Morning America. 
“That’s what made me upset and cry even more because my husband was an awesome soldier,” she added. Ms Johnson had known her husband since they were six years old.“That’s what made me upset and cry even more because my husband was an awesome soldier,” she added. Ms Johnson had known her husband since they were six years old.
In a morning tweet on Monday, Mr Trump wrote: "I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!" Disputing Ms Johnson's description of what happened, Mr Trump wrote on Twitter: "I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!"
The accounts of Mr Trump's call with Ms Johnson have placed the grieving widow at the centre of a national controversy. 
Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson said last week that Mr Trump told Ms Johnson on the phone that her husband “must have known what he signed up for,” an account later corroborated by Ms Johnson’s aunt and custodial mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson.
Mr Trump vehemently denied Ms Wilson’s account, stating it was “totally fabricated.” But White House Chief of Staff John Kelly later appeared to confirm Ms Wilson’s account. Ms Johnson on Monday said that the congresswoman's version of events was “100 percent correct.”
“Why would we fabricate something like that?” she said.
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