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Grieving mum slams Trump for 'insulting' NATO frontline claim
Sunday Mercury
|January 25, 2026
Fuming Caroline has called on the US President to apologise
THE heartbroken mum of a soldier killed in Afghanistan is calling for Donald Trump to apologise for his “insult ing” and “disrespectful” comments that NATO soldiers stayed away from the frontline.
Caroline Munday-Baker, from Coleshill, near Birmingham, has slammed the US President over his claim that NATO troops stayed “a little off the frontlines” in the country.
The 66-year-old, whose son James Munday was just 21 when he lost his life serving in Afghanistan, said she was “fuming” over Trump’s careless remark.
This story is from the January 25, 2026 edition of Sunday Mercury.
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