Exclusive: Pentagon Document Contradicts Trump's Gold Star Claims
Source: Roll Call
In the hours after President Donald Trump said on an Oct. 17 radio broadcast that he had contacted nearly every family that had lost a military servicemember this year, the White House was hustling to learn from the Pentagon the identities and contact information for those families, according to an internal Defense Department email.
The email exchange, which has not been previously reported, shows that senior White House aides were aware on the day the president made the statement that it was not accurate — but that they should try to make it accurate as soon as possible, given the gathering controversy.
Not only had the president not contacted virtually all the families of military personnel killed this year, the White House did not even have an up-to-date list of those who had been killed.
The exchange between the White House and the Defense secretary’s office occurred about 5 p.m. on Oct. 17. The White House asked the Pentagon for information about surviving family members of all servicemembers killed after Trump’s inauguration so that the president could be sure to contact all of them.
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Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/after-trump-claim-white-house-still-lacked-casualty-list
Editing to add that I found this via a tweet frosm CNN's Andrew Kaczynski:
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even when Trump picks from his stable of amazing, great, great Generals, it seems like he's picking the bottom of the barrel. Granted, these Generals are not career government servants, but it would seem they'd try not to emulate their Draft-Dodger-In-Chief and attempt to learn a little something about their position. 
And failing that, they might not think it their "duty" to lie like a $3 rug as their CIC constantly does. 
It seems Trump will only pick ass-kissing toadies, whether it's Generals or civilians. That's his ONLY criteria: you must be willing to fall on any grenade, real or imagined, to save Trump's bacon.
