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Trump Falsely Claims Obama Didn’t Contact Families of Fallen Troops WASHINGTON — President Trump falsely asserted on Monday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, and other presidents did not contact the families of American troops killed in duty, drawing a swift, angry rebuke from several of Mr. Obama’s former aides. Mr. Trump was responding to a question about why he had not spoken publicly about the killing of four Green Berets in an ambush in Niger two weeks ago when he made the assertion. Rather than answering the question, Mr. Trump said he had written personal letters to their families and planned to call them in the coming week. Then he pivoted to his predecessors. “If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference in the Rose Garden with the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell. “A lot of them didn’t make calls. I like to call when it’s appropriate.” Mr. Trump’s assertion belied a long record of meetings Mr. Obama held with the families of killed service people, as well as calls and letters, dating to the earliest days of his presidency. Before he decided to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, Mr. Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the coffins of troops. While Mr. Obama’s former staff members have grown used to Mr. Trump’s gibes about the “failure” of the Affordable Care Act or the “disastrous” Iran nuclear deal, they lashed out at his remarks on Monday with unusual bitterness. Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE Fourth U.S. Soldier Is Found Dead After Ambush in Niger OCT. 6, 2017 Deadly Ambush of Green Berets in Niger Belies a ‘Low-Risk’ Mission OCT. 5, 2017 Donald Trump Criticizes Muslim Family of Slain U.S. Soldier, Drawing Ire JULY 30, 2016 In Tribute to Son, Khizr Khan Offered Citizenship Lesson at ConventionJULY 29, 2016 “This is an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards,” Benjamin J. Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to Mr. Obama, posted on Twitter. “Also,” Mr. Rhodes added, “Obama never attacked a Gold Star family.” That reference was to the public feud Mr. Trump began with the parents of a Muslim American soldier, Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. The soldier’s parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, appeared at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, where Mr. Khan criticized Mr. Trump. Alyssa Mastromonaco, a former senior aide to Mr. Obama, used even stronger language on Twitter, calling Mr. Trump’s statement a lie — along with an expletive — and describing him as a “deranged animal.” A spokesman for Mr. Obama declined to comment. Several former Obama administration officials recalled the former president’s walks through Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, where the dead from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried, his visits to the wounded at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and the time he spent with families of the fallen at the White House and around the country. In August 2011, after a Chinook military helicopter was shot down over Afghanistan, killing 38 people, including 25 Special Forces troops, Mr. Obama consoled the families of all those killed, according to Jeremy B. Bash, a former chief of staff to Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, who attended the ceremony.

An open letter to the Prime Minister has been signed by shadow industrial strategy minister Chi Onwurah, shadow minister for labour Jack Dromey, shadow secretary of state for women and equalities Dawn Butler, shadow arts and heritage minister Kevin Brennan and the head of the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party, Jess Phillips. The letter describes the accusations against Mr Weinstein as "unacceptable and intolerable" and says keeping his honorary CBE in place risks "bringing the honours system into disrepute". It reads: "You must be aware of the recent allegations against Harvey Weinstein CBE. "Last week the New York Times reported eight allegations of sexual harassment brought to trial against Mr Weinstein which were settled out of court." The allegations mentioned in the letter include "a 100,000 settlement from Weinstein to Rose McGowan" and "a case with an unnamed assistant, whom he reportedly tried to convince to give him a massage while he stood naked in front of her at a hotel". The Labour letter refers to Mr Weinstein's apology released last week in which he said: "I came of age in the 60s and 70s, when all the rules about behaviour and workplaces were different. That was the culture then." The MPs say: "These actions are unacceptable and intolerable. They were unacceptable in the 1960s, they are unacceptable now and they may well be criminal under US and UK law. "These revelations prove that Mr Weinstein has fallen far short of the standards we expect from recipients of a CBE. His continued membership runs the risk of bringing the honours system into disrepute and, moreover, sending the deeply troubling signal that our Government does not take women's voices or allegations of sexual harassment seriously. "We are therefore calling upon your Government to act urgently and strip Mr Weinstein of his honorary CBE." Ms Onwurah said in a statement: "Everyone has the absolute right to work in whatever role their talents take them without being subject to sexual harassment - that is as true for the entertainment industry as any sector in the British economy. "These allegations of sexual harassment and assault need to be taken seriously and it is unacceptable that someone accused of these appalling and potentially criminal acts should retain the honour of a CBE. "The Government should act swiftly to start the process of stripping Weinstein's CBE from him, or it will send a profoundly worrying message about the value it places on women's voices, our safety, our working environment and as a consequence the UK economy. Britain's economic prosperity depends on everyone being able to contribute fully." On Monday, Labour MP Stella Creasy called for the removal of Mr Weinstein's CBE. She told the Press Association: "A CBE is an honour you get because you've done something that makes you someone our kids should look up to - not someone a woman should fear. "It takes real courage to speak out against someone in a position of such influence - removing the CBE from Harvey Weinstein would send a strong message to victims of sexual harassment around the world that we believe them, and that being in a position of power doesn't mean you can act without respect towards others."

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. attempts to deal with North Korea have failed for more than two decades. "Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing. Policy didn't work!" Trump said in a Twitter comment It was not clear exactly what Trump meant, but the comments seemed to suggest that he was referring to military action. Trump has engaged in weeks of taunts with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying the United States would "totally destroy" North Korea if necessary to protect itself and its allies if Pyongyang attacks. North Korea has conducted numerous missile and nuclear tests, including launching rockets over Japan. ‘Treasured sword’ Pyongyang's state media quoted Kim as telling the powerful Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party over the weekend that North Korea's nuclear weapons program is a "treasured sword" to protect it against aggression. Kim said the nuclear warheads were a "powerful deterrent" guaranteeing the country's sovereignty against what he described as "protracted nuclear threats of the U.S. imperialists." guidance on nuclear weapons development in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang, Sept. 3, 2017. But he acknowledged that North Korea's standoff with the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries over its nuclear weapons development was a "complicated international situation." Kim vowed to continue developing the country's economy as it advanced North Korea's weapons program in the face of stiffened United Nations sanctions aimed at curbing Pyongyang's export income. He said North Korea faces "ordeals" under a "stern" situation, but claimed its economy has grown. Barbed exchange Trump's threats drew the ire Sunday of one key U.S. lawmaker, Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who engaged in an exchange of barbed Twitter comments with the president. Corker told The New York Times that he sees Trump as treating his role as the U.S. leader like a reality television show with threats toward other countries that could put the United States "on the path to World War Three." "I don't think he appreciates that when the president of the United States speaks and says the things that he does, the impact that it has around the world, especially in the region that he's addressing," Corker said. Trump, in an earlier tweet, said Corker, who has announced his retirement, effective in early 2019, did not have the "guts" to run for re-election in 2018 for a third six-year term in the Senate.