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Article snippet: Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey fired back at President Trump for claiming that former President Obama and other past presidents didn’t call the families of fallen U.S. service members. “POTUS 43 & 44 and first ladies cared deeply, worked tirelessly for the serving, the fallen, and their families,” Dempsey tweeted Monday. “Not politics. Sacred Trust.” Dempsey, a retired general, served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs for four years during Obama’s administration. At an impromptu press conference in the White House Rose Garden Monday, Trump claimed that former President Obama and other past presidents didn’t call the families of U.S. service members who had died. “The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls, a lot of them didn’t make calls,” Trump said. “I like to call when it’s appropriate, when I think I’m able to do it.” Trump was responding to a question about four Green Berets that were killed in Niger earlier this month and when he would publicly address their deaths. Another reporter pressed Trump about his claim.“I don’t know if he did,” Trump said of Obama. “I was told that he didn’t often,” Trump said. “A lot of presidents don’t, they write letters. I do a combination of both.” Trump later said that he thinks Obama “did sometimes [call], and sometimes he didn’t, I don’t know, that’s what I was told.” Trump’s comments drew fire from former Obama staffers... Link to the full article to read more