Fake Facebook post tries to exonerate Trump over insulting a Gold Star widow

The information war is well under way. 

A fake Facebook post from the widow of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger has become fodder for supporters of President Donald Trump. 

The fabricated post, passed around as a screenshot, purports to be from Myeshia Johnson, whose husband U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson and three other U.S. soldiers died after being ambushed. 

The fake post references Trump’s call to Myeshia Johnson, in which Trump allegedly told the widow that the dead soldier “knew what he signed up for.” The call has spawned one of the worst crises of the Trump administration. 

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Source: Mashable | Fake Facebook post tries to exonerate Trump over insulting a Gold Star widow