More LOL - Slate "John Kelly was Supposed to Bring Credibility to the White House. He Failed"

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/john-kelly-fired-as-chief-of-staff-analysis.html?via=homepage_taps_top

No tears should be shed for the outgoing chief of staff.
By FRED KAPLAN

DEC 08, 20184:57 PM

The only surprise about John Kelly’s ouster as White House chief of staff, a move that President Trump announced on Saturday, is that it didn’t happen eight-and-a-half months ago.

That was when Trump named John Bolton to be his national security adviser. One of Kelly’s signal achievements, up to then, was keeping Bolton—a Fox News commentator that Trump watched regularly and had wanted to meet face-to-face—out of the Oval Office. Now that Bolton—who was also a bureaucratically savvy former State Department official—would be a few feet away from the commander-in-chief, Kelly’s role as White House gatekeeper and credibility as the administration’s agenda-setter were gravely diminished.

Other moments should have riveted Kelly’s eyes to the exit sign. Early on in Trump’s presidency, Kelly and his fellow former Marine, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, agreed never to be out of the country at the same time, lest Trump sign a disastrous executive order without their consultation—as he did with his first Muslim travel ban. Since that disaster, Trump has brought on board other, marginally more competent aides to help him do what he wants, and Mattis—whom Trump recently described as “sort of a Democrat”—seems weeks away from getting the boot, too.

Meanwhile, no tears should be shed for Gen. Kelly. Yes, he was lauded in the early months of his term as one of the “grown-ups in the room,” the man who not only blocked Bolton but got rid of Steve Bannon and his white-nationalist sidekick, Sebastian Gorka. Kelly also talked a good game on broader issues, particularly immigration. In his confirmation hearing for secretary of homeland security, a job he held before Trump moved him to the White House, Kelly assured senators that he would speak “truth to power”; said that a wall on the Mexican border would not halt drug trafficking; disputed Trump’s description of illegal immigrants as rapists and killers, saying most of them came here for “economic opportunity and to escape violence”; and firmly opposed the idea of detaining them without trial, noting, “I’m pretty committed to the Constitution.”


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[Brother Buzz]

1. John Kelly did bring credibility to the White House

But it refused to sign the Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and was tossed out on its ear.

I'm just saying