Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson is claiming that White House chief of staff John Kelly’s response to the controversy surrounding President Trump’s alleged comment to a Gold Star widow was intended to “keep his job.”

Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson is firing back at White House chief of staff John Kelly who criticized her over the controversy surrounding President Trump’s alleged comment to a Gold Star widow. 
“John Kelly’s trying to keep his job. He will say anything. There were other people who heard what I heard,” Wilson told Politico.
Her response comes hours after Kelly shared his remarks at a  White House press briefing on Thursday.
“I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning and broken-hearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing," Kelly told reporters, referring to Wilson. "A member of Congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the United States to a young wife, and in his way tried to express that opinion -- that he’s a brave man, a fallen hero.” 
Kelly also called her behavior “selfish.”
The Florida lawmaker had told the media that when the president called the widow of fallen soldier Army Sergeant La David Johnson, he said to her that her husband “knew what he signed up for.”
Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the claim.
"Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!" Trump tweeted on Wednesday.
Other White House officials have not denied that Trump made that comment but press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, in part, "the president was completely respectful, very sympathetic, and expressed the condolences of himself and the rest of the country."