AP FACT CHECK: Trump on military death, taxes, judges
Posted October 21, 2017 7:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump boasted this past week that he surpasses his predecessors in consoling families of the fallen.
That claim is hard to sustain.
Associated Press interviews with bereaved families found that many never heard from him after losing their loved ones in military service. The suddenly fraught subject overshadowed other matters in Washington for days.
AP Fact Checks found misstatements from the president on a variety of fronts.
For example, Trump denounced what he called unprecedented roadblocks from Democrats as he struggles to win confirmation of his judicial nominees.
But at this point in his presidency, he's had more judges confirmed than his immediate two predecessors did.
ADDS TRUMP'S RESPONSE TO REP. WILSON - In this Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, frame from video, Myeshia Johnson cries over the casket of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger, upon his body's arrival in Miami. President Donald Trump told the widow that her husband "knew what he signed up for," according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, who said she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone. In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump said Wilson's description of the call was "fabricated." (WPLG via AP)
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly waits off to the side before speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, left, waits on the side as White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right, speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., talks to reporters, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Wilson is standing by her statement that President Donald Trump told Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson killed in an ambush in Niger, that her husband "knew what he signed up for." In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump said Wilson's description of the call was "fabricated." (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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