No. The ‘Viral’ Message From Gold Star Widow Myeshia Johnson Is NOT Real

I can’t tell you how many posts I’ve seen about this. It makes me sick to my stomach.

We blast liberals for their stunning inability to do a little bit of research. We don’t get to do that anymore if we refuse to do it ourselves. Stop being hypocrites, conservatives.

I’m sorry, but I’m over this.

There’s a “viral” post that’s been floating around. It’s supposedly written by Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson– the woman at the center of the Frederica Wilson controversy.

You’ve heard the story by now. Wilson claims Trump made “insensitive remarks to Johnson. Trump denies that, and I believe him. It’s a difficult phone call to make. Even those who hate Trump HAVE to know he loves and adores those who serve. There’s no doubt about that.

If you didn’t hear John Kelly’s explanation, you should. If anyone has room to talk on this, it’s him. He lost his own son. He received the dreaded news.

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Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript. Here, he adds context to Trump’s remarks.

When I took this job and talked to President Trump about how to do it, my first recommendation was he not do it because it’s not the phone call that parents, family members are looking forward to. It’s nice to do, in my opinion, in any event.

 

He asked me about previous Presidents, and I said, I can tell you that President Obama, who was my Commander-in-Chief when I was on active duty, did not call my family. That was not a criticism. That was just to simply say, I don’t believe President Obama called. That’s not a negative thing. I don’t believe President Bush called in all cases. I don’t believe any President, particularly when the casualty rates are very, very high — that Presidents call. But I believe they all write.

 

So when I gave that explanation to our President three days ago, he elected to make phone calls in the cases of four young men who we lost in Niger at the earlier part of this month. But then he said, how do you make these calls? If you’re not in the family, if you’ve never worn the uniform, if you’ve never been in combat, you can’t even imagine how to make that call. I think he very bravely does make those calls.

 

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Well, let me tell you what I told him. Let me tell you what my best friend, Joe Dunford, told me — because he was my casualty officer. He said, Kel, he was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew what he was getting into by joining that 1 percent. He knew what the possibilities were because we’re at war. And when he died, in the four cases we’re talking about, Niger, and my son’s case in Afghanistan — when he died, he was surrounded by the best men on this Earth: his friends.

 

That’s what the President tried to say to four families the other day. I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning, and brokenhearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing. A member of Congress who listened in on a phone call from the President of the United States to a young wife, and in his way tried to express that opinion — that he’s a brave man, a fallen hero, he knew what he was getting himself into because he enlisted. There’s no reason to enlist; he enlisted. And he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be, with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken.

 

That was the message. That was the message that was transmitted.

Unfortunately, it’s still “he sad she said” at this point. But some loser decided to make this worse by creating a fake Facebook account, posing as the grieving widow and posting this status. Again, it’s TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY FAKE, but people fell for it. The profile picture is actually a legit photo of her along with her husband, U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson. Maybe that’s why people fell for it.  I don’t know.

It’s still spreading like crazy.

Fourth time today this fake news has been tweeted at me https://t.co/3fobH5kIxQ

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 21, 2017

Stop spreading this. It’s #FakeNews. Shame on whoever did this. As if Myeshia doesn’t have enough to deal with…