Article snippet: President Donald Trump denied Wednesday that he told the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier, "He knew what he signed up for," in a condolence call, contradicting a Florida congresswoman who said she was with the woman at the time. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was with Myeshia Johnson in a car headed to Miami International Airport on Tuesday afternoon to meet the body of Johnson's husband, Army Sgt. La David T. Johnson, who died in Niger this month, when the president called. In an interview with CNN on Tuesday night, Wilson, D-Fla., relayed Myeshia Johnson's conversation with Trump, saying, "Basically, he said, 'Well, I guess he knew what he signed up for. But I guess it still hurt.' That's what he said." Sgt. Johnson’s mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, shared a similar sentiment with the Washington Post Wednesday, telling the newspaper, “President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband.” Trump denied Wilson's claim and said he had a "very nice conversation" with Johnson, "who sounded like a lovely woman." "I didn't say what that congresswoman said, and she knows it," Trump told reporters Wednesday at the White House. "I didn't say it at all." The comments echoed a tweet the president sent Wednesday morning in which he wrote that Wilson "fabricated" what he said to Johnson and that he had "proof" to support it. He later challenged Wilson to repeat her statement about the call, and teased that he would then sh... Link to the full article to read more