Myra Guillen, whose sister was murdered in 2020, posted online posts supporting former President Trump, and the Republican presidential candidate promised to pay for her sister's funeral, but did not, The Atlantic reported. He denied the paper's report.
“Oh. I don't understand how you're politicizing my sister's death. It's harmful and disrespectful to the important changes she made for our military,” Guillen said. Post on social platform X. “President Donald Trump showed nothing but respect for my family and Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”
Vanessa Guillen was a 20-year-old Army private who was bludgeoned to death by another soldier in Ford Hood, Texas, in 2020. Her charred corpse was found on a riverbank two months later, and her death sparked national outrage.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, made the announcement. Articles about Trump He also promised to pay for Guillen's funeral expenses. According to the article, Trump was furious when he was informed that the funeral would cost $60,000.
“It doesn't cost $60,000 to bury a Mexican!” Goldberg reported Trump as saying. “He then went to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and gave him the order, 'Don't pay!'”
According to the article, Guillen's family attorney, Natalie Khawam, told the magazine that she had sent an invoice for funeral expenses to the White House, but that she had not received any money from Trump.
Khawam said in her own post Mr. Goldberg misrepresented their conversation and “completely lied in his sensational story,” the statement said.
“More importantly, he used and exploited the murder of my client and Vanessa Guillen for cheap political gain,” she wrote.
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows denied the report and said he was involved in the discussions covered in the article.
“Any suggestion that President Trump disrespected Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is completely false.” Meadows posted on X. “He wasn't just kind and compassionate, he wanted to make sure the military and the U.S. government were doing the right thing by following Vanessa Guillen and her family.”
In a statement reported by The Atlantic and sent to The Hill by the Trump campaign, the campaign called the report “completely false.”
“President Donald Trump has spent his life caring for America's military heroes…” Trump campaign adviser Alex Pfeiffer said in a statement. “There is no one who champions our nation's brave military members more than Donald J. Trump.”
