The pregnant widow of a fallen US soldier today 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 member of their family and was among a group of people listening to Trump's call on a speaker phone as they drove to receive Sgt. La David Johnson's body.
"The president said that he knew what he signed up for but it hurts anyway," Johnson said.
"And it made me cry because I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it.
"He couldn't remember my husband's name. The only way he could remember my husband's name was he told me he had my husband's report in front of him and that's when he actually said La David.
"Whatever Ms. Wilson said was not fabricated," Johnson said in her first interview since her husband's death.
"What she said was 100 percent correct."
Sgt. Johnson and three comrades died October 4 [local time] in Africa when militants tied to the Islamic State attacked them.
She said she also wants to know why she hasn't been allowed to see her husband's body.
He was buried on Sunday.
"I need to see him so I will know that that is my husband," she said.
"They won't show me a finger, a hand. I know my husband's body from head to toe. And they won't let me see anything. I don't know what's in that box.
"It could be empty for all I know. But I need to see my husband. I haven't seen him since he came home."
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