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    Trump Attacks a Grieving Widow’s Account

    The president reescalated the ongoing debate over his condolences to Gold Star families by contradicting the widow of a fallen Special Forces sergeant.
    by David A. Graham Oct 23, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Joe Skipper / Reuters

    “You know, when I was a kid growing up, a lot of things were sacred in our country,” White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Thursday. Among those were Gold Star families: “I just thought—the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die on the battlefield, I just thought that that might be sacred.”

    But Kelly acknowledged that might no longer be true: “Gold Star families, I think that left in the convention over the summer.”

    Then on Monday morning, Kelly’s boss decided to prolong a feud with the widow of a fallen American soldier:

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