Gold Star widow whose husband was killed in Afghanistan releases Trump’s call

Gold Star widow whose husband was killed in Afghanistan releases Trump’s call

Gold Star widow Natasha De Alencar released the audio of a phone conversation she had with President Donald Trump in April following the death of her husband, who was killed in Afghanistan.

“I am so sorry to hear about the whole situation. What a horrible thing, except that he’s an unbelievable hero,” Trump told her in the call about her husband Army Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, which The Washington Post released.

“Thank you. I really, really appreciated it,” she said. “I really do, sir.”

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Trump also told the widow if she is ever in Washington D.C. that she is welcome in the Oval Office.

“If you’re around Washington, you come over and see me in the Oval Office,” he said. “You just come over and see me because you are just the kind of family … this is what we want.”

“Say hello to your children, and tell them your father, he was a great hero that I respected,” Trump said. “Just tell them I said your father was a great hero.”

The phone call was released after White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly pushed back against Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson’s criticism that Trump unfeelingly told a Gold Star widow, “He knew what he signed up for.”

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Now watch General Kelly’s reaction to comments made by Frederica Wilson in which he urges Americans to remember what is “sacred.”


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