Noah Michelson, the Voices Editorial Director at The
Huffington Post and Executive Editor of Queer
Voices, and Co-host of the Love + Sex
Podcast returns to the show as he does every Thursday to help us close out
the week with the stories making headlines over at Queer Voices.
In the wake of President Trump’s shameful response to the ambush in Niger
that killed four American servicemen, Gold Star parents Khizr Khan and
his wife Ghazala slammed Trump after he defended his delay in responding to the
recent deaths and claimed past presidents did not reach out to the families of
fallen soldiers as much as he has. The Khans, who lost their son in combat in
2004, expressed solidarity with the families of the four U.S. Green Berets who
were killed earlier this month, and Khizr joins me on the show today to talk
all about the President’s remarks.
On Monday, Donald Trump
admitted he hadn't contacted the families of American troops who were killed in
Niger, nearly two weeks ago. Then, after falsely claiming that President Obama
never called family members, Trump struggled to explain why he hadn't contacted
the families, and then claimed a letter to them was going out "today or
tomorrow," though he was unsure.
Then after mounting criticism Trump called the widow of Sgt. La David T.
Johnson, who was killed in Niger, and it was soon reported that he made her cry
when he callously told her that her husband knew what he signed up for, during
the call. Trump’s response to the death
of the Green Berets has shocked and sickened many people in the country and in
particular the veterans community.
Joining me today to talk all about the Presidents response to the Niger
ambush and his treatment of Gold Star families is Will Fischer who is the Director of Government Relations at
VoteVets, America’s largest progressive veterans organization and a Marine
Corps veteran of the war in Iraq himself.
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