Rep. Frederica Wilson

  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump‘s chief of staff distorted the facts when he accused a “selfish” Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson of grandstanding at a building dedication in the memory of two slain FBI agents in 2015. John Kelly said she stunned the audience at the somber ceremony by recounting how she […]

By now you’ve no doubt heard about the growing controversy centered around the death of an American soldier, Sgt. La David Johnson, a young brother from Miami, who was killed earlier this month in Niger. I wanna take just a few minutes this morning to break it all down because I think the story, and […]

Myeshia Johnson broke her silence, confirming President Trump’s heartless condolence phone call.

MIAMI (AP) — The pregnant widow of a fallen U.S. soldier on Monday contradicted President Donald Trump’s account of his phone call about her husband’s death and said what he told her “made me cry even worse.” Myeshia Johnson told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview that Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson was practically a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida congresswoman on Sunday asked White House chief of staff, John Kelly, to apologize for making false claims about her while defending President Donald Trump’s handling of condolences to a military family. Her comments and the president’s insulting tweets escalated a political fight surrounding the deaths of four service members in […]

COOPER CITY, Fla. (AP) — Mourners Saturday remembered not only a U.S. soldier whose combat death in Africa led to a political fight between President Donald Trump and a Florida congresswoman but his three comrades who died with him. Some of the 1,200 mourners exiting the church after the service said the portrait of Sgt. […]

America has been waiting to learn the details about how and why Sgt. La David Johnson wasn’t rescued sooner after a deadly ambush against U.S. troops by terrorists in West Africa earlier this month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — He started by describing the reverent handling of America’s war dead, bodies packed in ice and shipped home in the dark to an Air Force base in Delaware. From that opening, White House chief of staff John Kelly delivered a raw and searing monologue Thursday about the reality and pain of war […]

Where was this same rage when #45 invoked the name of the White House chief of staff's dead son to lie on former President Obama? Asking for a friend.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The mother of an Army sergeant killed in Niger said Wednesday that President Donald Trump, in a call offering condolences, showed “disrespect” to the soldier’s loved ones as they drove to the airport to meet his body. Trump, engulfed in controversy over the appropriate way for presidents to show compassion for slain […]

MIAMI (AP) — President Donald Trump told the widow of a slain soldier that he “knew what he signed up for,” according to a Florida congresswoman. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was in the car with Myeshia Johnson on the way to Miami International Airport to meet the body of Johnson’s husband, Sgt. La David […]