Sgt. LaDavid Johnson's widow demands answers on husband's death, confirms Trump forgot his name during call

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The widow of slain Army Sgt. LaDavid Johnson on Monday demanded answers about her husband’s death in Africa, as she refuted President Trump’s claims about his controversial condolence call to her.

“I don’t know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything,” Myeshia Johnson told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” in her first interview since the sergeant’s death. “They never told me and that’s what I’ve been trying to find out since.”

LaDavid Johnson was one of four Army soldiers killed in the attack outside Tongo Tongo, Niger, on Oct. 4. His body wasn’t discovered for roughly 48 hours, which has irked his widow among others.

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Johnson said she wasn’t even allowed to see her husband’s body before his funeral Saturday.

“I don’t know what’s in that box,” she said. “It could be empty for all I know. I haven’t seen him since he came home.”

Her condolence call with the President has been the eye of a White House firestorm over the last week.

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) claimed she heard part of the call on speakerphone, during which Trump told the pregnant Johnson her husband “knew what he signed up for.”

Trump has vehemently denied that, slamming Wilson’s account as “fabricated” and calling the lawmaker “whacky.”

But Johnson confirmed Wilson’s series of events, which happened as she was en route to receive her husband’s body at Dover Air Base.

“Whatever Ms. Wilson said was not fabricated,” Johnson told “GMA” on Monday. “What she said was 100% correct.”

She said Trump called the cellphone of a master sergeant in the car. Johnson asked him to put the call on speaker so her aunt and uncle, also in the car, could hear the call.

Johnson said she cried for several reasons, especially because Trump seemingly forgot the sergeant’s name. The only reason he remembered it was because of a report in front of him, she said.

“I heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband’s name,” Johnson told “GMA.” “And that’s what made me upset and cry even more because my husband was an awesome soldier.”

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