By Florida Bill U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson is a three term congresswoman from Florida and she stresses in her published biographies that she wears a new hat every day in honor of her grandmother. Her bio is light on significant accomplishments, but heavy with stress on her fight against racism.
Now, she has a new "cause celeb" and is accusing President Trump and his Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, of rank insensitivity to a widow who had lost her army husband in an ambush by terrorists in Niger, in West Africa.
Her claim that the president was insensitive and jocular in his conversation with the widow was a massive fabrication. She also charged that the White House is filled with racially-charged white supremacists, and she spoke of this racism with her friend Al Sharpton on his radio show. She also communicated and expanded on her fiction to a receptive anti-Trump media, which swallowed it, no questions asked.
In her early days in the House of Representatives, Wilson importuned then-speaker Boehner to wave the 1837 rule which restricted House members from wearing head coverings during sessions in the Capitol. Boehner denied her request, no doubt feeling more concern with what was in her head rather than what was on top of it. Nevertheless, she is rarely seen without a gaudy cowboy hat or sombrero.
Wilson was a school teacher and principal in an elementary school and for 10 years a member of the Florida legislature. She was elected to congress from Florida's 24th district.
In 2012, in her first term, she came upon the Trayvon Martin killing by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman and wanna-be policeman. She immediately blasted Zimmerman as a profiler of blacks who "hunted down" Trayvon and murdered him because he was black. Her animosity for Zimmerman continued even though a biracial jury acquitted him of all murder and manslaughter charges following an extended trial and a hearing on the evidence. Currently, she is seeking to establish a scholarship to be awarded in the name of Trayvon Martin.
In July, 2016, Wilson exploded in anger and accused a North Miami policeman of shooting Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black man. The investigation revealed that Kinsey, a mental health therapist, was shot accidentally by police seeking to protect him from an assault by a mentally deranged man on the street. Kinsey was attempting to assist the autistic man, his patient at a nearby facility who had run off. Charles was shot in the leg and quickly recovered. After the dust had settled, Wilson, who had enlisted the aid of the Congressional Black Caucus, backed away as headlines on the matter disappeared.
On Oct. 18, Wilson was in a car with Myeshia Johnson, whose husband, La David, an Army green beret sergeant, had been killed Oct. 4, along with three other soldiers, in an ambush by ISIS terrorists in Niger. It was a tragedy and President Trump, whose respect and admiration for the military is well known, put in a personal call to Mrs. Johnson. She received the call in an auto in which she was accompanied by Wilson, who had known La David at the school where she taught.
The president sought to extend his condolences and profound sympathy for the loss of her husband. La David was a hero who will always be remembered, he said. He died in the service of his country, accompanied by fellow soldiers, and he had chosen to serve his country aware of the dangers he faced. It was a USA president, the most powerful office holder in the world, extending his sympathy to a young widow as best he knew how to do it.
Wilson promptly gave it a racial spin and excoriated the president for his comments, claiming that President Trump was insensitive and uncaring, and actually acted like he was joking. Wilson's interpretation of the conversation was shameful, but she communicated her fabrication to the media which readily accepted her version as it fit perfectly into its anti-Trump agenda.
A few days later, Gen. Kelly was asked about the conversation as he was present when President Trump spoke to Mrs. Johnson by telephone. He said he was "stunned" to hear Wilson's bogus interpretation of a presidential conversation which was intended to be private.
Communications from the President to a family which has lost a military son or daughter is a sacred moment, noted Gen. Kelly.
Pressed further by reporters, Gen. Kelly, himself a gold medal father who lost his marine son to a landmine in Afghanistan in 2010, said that he had met Wilson in 2015 during the dedication of a new FBI field office in Miami. He recalled that she boasted of her accomplishments and of having been the force for funding behind its creation. He characterized her as an "empty barrel," or he added, in the South she would be considered "all hat and no cattle."
Media "fact checkers" hustled to defend Wilson and accused Kelly of lying, pointing out that Rep. Wilson never said she obtained the financing. Nevertheless, Kelly said that he remembered her claim of "going into the attack mode" as a way of pushing the house and senate to act, and then telephoned the president to sign the matter into law, which freed up the appropriated $20 million.
Kelly said he had no reason to apologize for his comments as they were true. Some of the comments are not part of the transcript which the biased media is accepting as her entire speech.
President Trump has few kind words to say about the 74-year-old Wilson. He said that she had "fabricated" what she heard and that he had been respectful and sympathetic to the best of his ability, recognizing the tragic loss to the widow and to her family and friends.
In the end, Trump predicted that fair minded Americans will see through this type of misbehavior by this "whacky" member of Congress, and by the "fake news" media. His administration will be strengthened as a result of the outrageous noise being put forth by this woman who wears big colorful hats on top of a delusory head.
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The fact that Rep. Wilson attacked Trump for insensitivity in expressing the nation's condolence on the combat death of her husband was sheer hateful anti-Trump opportunism. She then disgustingly doubled-down on her hate by dealing her race card into the controversy she deliberately created to imply that Trump's "insensitivity" to the death of a black soldier was racist.
ReplyDeleteWilson demonstrated the greatest insensitivity by exploiting the grieving widow Myeshia Johnson as her tool in attacking Trump. Wilson victimized both Mrs. Johnson and her husband to partisan hate. No surprise that Wilson hastened to share her views with fellow racist provocateur Al Sharpton. She uses his tactics.