The South Florida congresswoman was in Myeshia Johnson’s car because she had known La David Johnson since he was a schoolboy. She. Is. Not. Lying.
By Joy-Ann Reid
Frederica Wilson is no liar. On Thursday, Gen. John Kelly, President Trump’s chief of staff, confirmed that. Kelly also made clear that he works for a man who has redefined the meaning of shameless.
The Florida congresswoman is the latest—and pointedly, the latest woman and person of color—to be attacked by Trump for daring to tell the truth about him. She joins a roster that includes broadcaster Jemele Hill,
the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and before that, a Latina former
Miss Universe. Now add in Hillary Clinton and the more than a dozen
women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment or assault. Trump has
attacked or threatened a few men too, notably black NFL and NBA stars,
Gold Star father Khizr Khan (along with his wife), decorated Vietnam War
veteran John McCain and other United States senators, but he typically
reserves his greatest vitriol for those who aren’t white and male. We’re
all still waiting for the president’s sure-to-be-blistering response to
Eminem.
Trump on Wednesday used one of his increasingly frequent
press availabilities to essentially call Wilson a liar, after she told
the world what he said to the widow of Staff Sgt. La David T. Johnson;
one of four special forces soldiers killed during a still murky mission
in Niger. Wilson first gave her account to local reporters in Miami who
met the limousine carrying her, Myeshia Johnson and Staff Sgt. Johnson’s
adoptive parents to the funeral home to claim the body of the fallen
soldier. Apparently, the White House had alerted the media that he would
call Johnson’s widow, evidently hoping to reap some rare good press for
the most hated president in modern U.S. history.
She later repeated what she heard to national news outlets and to this reporter.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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