White House does not dispute details of call with Army widow

Christina Wilkie
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... Trump on Wednesday repeatedly denied that he told Johnson that her husband "knew what he was signing up for." He also claimed to have "proof" that Wilson's account was "totally fabricated."

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, however, said that the "proof" Trump referred to was merely that there were other administration officials present for the call.

Sanders also declined to back up the president's denials when she was asked about them at the daily White House briefing. Instead, Sanders emphasized that Trump had done "the best job he could under those circumstances" ...

The comment about what Johnson signed up for "was the wrong thing to say, but that's not the worst part of the call," Wilson told ABC News. The worst part, she said, was that Trump "did not even know La David Johnson's name. He kept referring to him as 'your guy.' He never called him by his name. So that was even more painful" ...

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