John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump

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(CNN) -- John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN.

Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump made behind closed doors attacking US service members and veterans, listing a number of objectionable comments Kelly witnessed Trump make firsthand.

“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.

“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.

“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”

In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

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Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump


"What was in it for them?" Unbelievable! Unconscionable! What do you think?
Sounds like a Democrat. Why did Trump pick this guy?

One lesson Trump needs to learn is that loyalty is the most important quality in his appointments. No one can do more damage than a disloyal subordinate.
 
"One lesson Trump needs to learn is that loyalty....."

....is that loyalty should ...to work best and longest and most effectively .....go both ways.

A lesson the disgraced former president seems strangely obtuse in comprehending.
 
I'm an American.
My friends are American.
So is all of my family.

None of us feel Don Trump is loyal to America.
All of us feel Don Trump is loyal to Don Trump. Exclusively.

Just sayin'.
Statistics and facts paint a different picture. Jess sayin

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....is that loyalty should ...to work best and longest and most effectively .....go both ways.

A lesson the disgraced former president seems strangely obtuse in comprehending.
As if you actually cared about Trump's associates.
 
"I saw your side giving more love to the North Vietnamese than to our own American soldiers who were fighting for our freedom."
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Well, I dunno much about North Vietnamese or anyone's "side", 55 years ago, but.......but I was, admittedly, totally and completely unaware that the North Vietnamese were or did invade the United States with the intention to take away our freedoms.

Unless, of course, Lenny......they were being secretly aided by your Cyber Ninja Elite Strike Force Team?

Stay on the case, Lenny. We have confidence in you ability to entertain us all. ;)
 
"What we know is that you are a lying sack of shit"

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And "bag-of-dicks" too? As you asserted in another thread?

You know, prolific poster Roja.....my avatar, for one, is glad you post here.

You offer all who lurk or post on this venue a wonderful example of a bad example.
Meaning, you illustrate and exemplify what it is to be MAGA.
Which, in some circles, (not necessarily in mine, but in some).....but some folks think MAGA equals undereducated, grievance-filled, inarticulate, vulgar, and well, not smart ne'er-do-wells.

Now, I'm not saying me or my avatar think that....but, as you no doubt are well aware.....many many folks think that.
Of you.
And of MAGA in general.
And MAGA's mirror-image ----QANON.

I personally do not know exactly why.
Maybe it is MAGA/QANON's loyalty to Alex Jones, or to Matt Gaetz, or SpaceLaser Greene, or Mike Lindell, or 'JustTuckin'MyShirt' Rudy. I honestly don't know.

Maybe TDS has somethin' to do with it....you know, Trump Devoted Sycophancy.
I cannot say for sure.

But keep posting.
(which, some may think, is sorta like sayin: 'Here's More Rope')
 
Sounds like a Democrat. Why did Trump pick this guy?

One lesson Trump needs to learn is that loyalty is the most important quality in his appointments. No one can do more damage than a disloyal subordinate.
Kelly is no Democrat.

But of course to the Trump cult, anyone who speaks ill of Dear Leader MUST by definition be a Dem
 
Kelly is no Democrat.

But of course to the Trump cult, anyone who speaks ill of Dear Leader MUST by definition be a Dem
That's pretty much the case. They sure as hell aren't conservative Republicans.
 
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Well, I dunno much about North Vietnamese or anyone's "side", 55 years ago, but.......but I was, admittedly, totally and completely unaware that the North Vietnamese were or did invade the United States with the intention to take away our freedoms.

Unless, of course, Lenny......they were being secretly aided by your Cyber Ninja Elite Strike Force Team?

Stay on the case, Lenny. We have confidence in you ability to entertain us all. ;)
Of course you don't know much about it. Thanks for letting us know
 
So, prolific poster Finger......just where did the North Vietnamese invade the continental United States.
Or, for that matter, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska?
You are the one who said you didn't know much about it. Why don't you do some homework, educate yourself. There's a whole world out there for people like you.
 

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