Sgt. La David Johnson’s widow: Trump not remembering my husband’s name ‘hurt me the most’

“The president said that ‘he knew what he signed up for but it hurts anyway’ and it made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it,” Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, told ABC.

“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?” Johnson continued.

Johnson said Rep. Frederica Wilson’s recollection of the call was “not fabricated, what she said was 100 percent correct,” and that Johnson put Trump on speaker phone so her aunt and uncle could hear his voice.

“I don’t have nothing to say to him,” Johnson added when asked if she had a message for the president.

Johnson’s husband was one of four U.S. troops who died when their 12-member team was caught in an ambush by 50 Islamic State fighters in Niger on Oct. 4.

Johnson told ABC she has a lot of unanswered questions about the incident, including why it took the military 48 hours to recover her husband and why officials have not allowed her to see his body.

“When they came to my house, they just told me that it was a massive gunfire,” Johnson said. “And a couple of days later is when they told me that he went from missing to killed in action. I don’t know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything.”

While still grappling with her grief, the mother of two who is pregnant with the couple’s third child said she wanted the world to know the kind of person and soldier her husband was.

Johnson said she would tell their unborn daughter her father “died as a hero.”

Trump responded to Johnson’s version of events on Twitter Monday shortly after her interview aired.

“I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!” he tweeted.