WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was snarled in fresh controversy Wednesday after he was accused of being disrespectful to a US soldier slain in an ambush in Niger, as well as showing insensitivity to the grieving family. “President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband,” Sergeant La David Johnson’s mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, told the Washington Post. Trump denied making the comments, tweeting Wednesday: “Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). And she said ‘he didn’t even know his name,’” Wilson said, referring to Trump and the dead soldier. Trump had faced criticism for not contacting the families of the soldiers killed in Niger right away.

Source: New Strait Times October 18, 2017 23:48 UTC