Kelly is not a good guy. His venomous resentment of President Obama spilled out into the public in totally inappropriate ways, and reports of his conduct as Donaldâs head of Homeland Security before he was brought in as what political Washington gushingly deemed the âgrownupâ in the Oval Office are deeply troubling.
Nevertheless, heâs in kind of a bad position here. Either he remains diplomatically silent and allows Donald to continue to use him as both sword and shield, with these iterations of âGeneral Kelly Sez!â used to blow smoke on a whole set of issues, and the implication that he has actually said these things, and approves his name being thus invoked: or he goes on the record to confirm or----more likely, at least under oath----deny this spew of nonsense attributed to him, in which case his tenure at the White House is pretty much finished.
If he were a truly good man, he would take a stand. But perhaps he has persuaded himself that Donald would be even more dangerous if he werenât there to temper the old idiotâs misconductâin fact, General Kelly may have made the most fatal mistake of all, and fallen for his own good press.
So Kelly thinks its ok to call a widow a liar?
Man lies with dog, finds self covered in fleas.
Somebody needs to be shamed and shunned by his military peers. I do believe that will happen.
If Kelly thought that call was ârespectfulâ, then Kelly is even more of a complicit asshole than I have been saying he is.
Sure, thatâs why Kelly rushed out to defend him.
And letâs get real here. I bet you $100 there IS a recording and Trump knew it. Trump heard a gloriously sympathetic, empathetic, magnanimous phone conversation in his headâŚone that was no doubt appreciated deeply by the lowly serfs who had been contacted directly by their Dear Leader. Everyone else who listened to the recording knew it was a fucking disaster and told him to shut the fuck up while deleting it.
I think we know by now that just because Huckabee says it doesnât make it true.
Pressed on whether Trumpâs remarks about Second Lt. Robert Kellyâs death themselves amounted to a politicization, Sanders said, âHe was responding to a question and stating a fact.â
Well hereâs the problem Sarah Trump did not state a âfactâ or âfactoid,â he made shit up. Trump when brought up Kellyâs son it was deflection and diversion, not a fact.
We all expect a paid hack like Sharia Manatee Sanders to lie her cellulite-infested ass off, but Kelly must be aware of how dishonorable he is to allow Trump such blatant latitudes regarding fallen soldiers. What a coward.
John Kelly dishonored himself again. How would have have felt if President Obama said this about his son?! He let trump use his sonâs memory to to bash President Obama.
Thatâs the most insightful analysis of Kellyâs position that Iâve read - thanks for expressing (so much better than I could) what Iâve been feeling and thinking.
I think we know by now that if Ma Hamhock says it, it is most assuredly a lie from the pits of Hell.
âI think that Gen. Kelly is disgusted by the way that this has been politicized"
So Kelly is disgusted by Trump politicizing fallen soldiers.
Got it.
âI think that Gen. Kelly is disgusted by the way that this has been politicized and that the focus has become on the process and not the fact that American lives were lost,â she said. âI think heâs disgusted and frustrated by that. If he has any anger, itâs towards that
Reporter: âCan we hear that from him?â
This coming from a guy who deferred from nam 5 timesâŚ
Trying to make a equivalency between the claim that obama never called kelly when his son was killed to trump making a phone to the mother of a dead soldier and blaming the soldier for his own death⌠yeahâŚi get itâŚNOT
Kelly gets more wraith-like by the minute.
Iâm supposed to believe Kelly was listening in on the calls to bereaved families? As sort of the grown up in the room?
Kelly should have learned from the experience of Colin Powell. I donât think he was too stupid to learn, so Iâm guessing that ambition might be responsible.