Donald Trump is a liar - Part 2

Let's review the number of U.S. military deaths in areas of combat operations since the Liar-in-chief took office:

January - 1
February - 1
March - 3
April - 4
May - 2
June - 3
July - 1
August - 6
September - 0
October - 5

Now let's review the number of U.S. military deaths in areas of combat operations back in 2010:

January - 36
February - 37
March - 37
April - 29
May - 40
June - 68
July - 69
August - 58
September - 49
October - 52
November - 55

The reason these numbers are important is that they represent the difference between the number of combat-related casualties during the year current White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly's son died after stepping on a land mine in Afghanistan.  That tragedy happened on November 9, 2010.

Did President Obama actually call then Lt. General Kelly, serving at the time as Commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North?  I don't know.  But we do know that General Kelly and his wife were at a breakfast hosted by President Obama to honor Gold Star families the following year.

When the number of military combat deaths in a month is in the single digits, it is expected that the President, in the role of Commander-in-Chief will take a few minutes to pick up the phone and call the families.  When those numbers rise into the dozens, it is an entirely different situation.

In October of 1983, 241 military personnel were killed in the bombing of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut.  I do not believe for one minute that Ronald Reagan picked up the phone and called 241 families.  That's an unreasonable expectation.

But the deaths of five men in combat operations in one month does call upon the Commander-in-Chief to make five phone calls.  Those calls shouldn't take nearly two weeks to happen, unless there is some other crisis occupying the Executive Branch.  Given Trump's focus on other issues like golf, the NFL and kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem, obviously he isn't dealing with a crisis that would excuse the delay in his making those calls.

Now the Liar-in-Chief is denying that he told the widow of Army SGT La David Johnson that "...he must have known what he signed up for."

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson claims that is just what he did say and she was in the car with the widow at the time she got the call from Mr. Trump.  Trump says he has proof of what was said.  If he did, why hasn't he already released it?

On the other hand, we have proof that the Liar-in-Chief has lied about phone calls before.

Note to Donald Trump's designated lie whisperer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.  When your boss says he got a call and you try to spin it that he was referencing conversations that were in person rather than on the phone; that's your boss telling a lie.  It is not a bold accusation to call that a lie, it is stating a fact.

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But now Donald Trump has done something that might be considered worse than lying.  He is using the personal tragedy of his Chief of Staff to try to defend one of his lies.  No one seems to be serving the interests of the Liar-in-Chief better than retired General John F. Kelly and yet Trump parades the combat death of the general's son around to defend his own falsehood.  Disgusting!  Sad!