I just read an article that says the widow of the soldier is now saying that President Trump's words "made her cry".
I try to not be cynical about stories like this, but a couple of things stand out to me. Here we have a woman who lost her husband in combat, and the president calls her to offer condolences..... but she has a woman representative, who is a known Trump basher, listen in on the other line to hear what the President has to say?
The representative immediately goes public, castigating the President for what he said, and after a week or so of media outrage, the wife says that the President's comments "made her cry".....
This appears to me to be more of the work of the movement to attempt to remove President Trump from office...
While I truly feel sorry for the widow, and her family, I find it difficult to understand why she would have a representative "listen in" to condolences from the President.
This whole episode is beginning to appear to have been staged to have another reason to slam the President.
Everybody knows that Trump is brash, and his style of speaking is not the "measured tones" of a polished politician.
I wonder how long Abraham Lincoln (who WAS a polished politician) worked on his letter to Mrs. Bixby about the loss of her sons in the war.
Perhaps that is what the President should do, just write letters to all the survivors of fallen servicemen/women..... that way, nobody could attempt to read things into his "tone", or his "inflection", or any non-perfect statements of condolence.
As it is now, he's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't..... all thanks to the national liberal propaganda machine that is the main stream media.