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Ohiogal

(31,973 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:16 AM Sep 2020

Ass face traitor also disparaged Kelly's son right to his face

According to AP article

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The Defense officials also confirmed to The AP reporting in The Atlantic that Trump on Memorial Day 2017 had gone with his chief of staff, John Kelly, to visit the Arlington Cemetery gravesite of Kelly’s son, Robert, who was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, and said to Kelly: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

The senior Marine Corps officer and The Atlantic, citing sources with firsthand knowledge, also reported that Trump said he didn’t want to support the August 2018 funeral of Republican Sen. John McCain, a decorated Navy veteran who spent years as a Vietnam prisoner of war, because he was a “loser.” The Atlantic also reported that Trump was angered that flags were flown at half-staff for McCain, saying: “What the f—- are we doing that for? Guy was a f—-ing loser.”

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https://apnews.com/edf5d17c4d41cfb69117f0cf97ef6ac6

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Raven

(13,889 posts)
2. Yoo Hoo! Calling John Kelly. Where are you? If you want to
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:21 AM
Sep 2020

perform the ultimate service to your country and to your son, the American people need to hear from you...NOW.

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
8. If this story is true and Kelly refuses to confirm it, he is a sniveling coward.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:39 AM
Sep 2020

What exactly can Trump do to him now? Does he really still believe that this asshole should be President?

Squinch

(50,946 posts)
3. John Kelly must have had some serious masochism issues to have let that scum disparage him, his
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:24 AM
Sep 2020

career and his FAMILY like that.

Ohiogal

(31,973 posts)
5. It's certainly makes it hard to respect Kelly
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:27 AM
Sep 2020

Remember the debacle with him and the widow of the fallen soldier from Florida and how he insulted Rep. Wilson and defended the Ass face

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/356266-john-kelly-stunned-at-description-of-trumps-call-to-soldiers-widow

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
7. Not to feed into conspiracy theories....
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:37 AM
Sep 2020

But it makes you wonder what Trump has on Kelly. Why didn't Kelly immediately resign and renounce Trump?

Squinch

(50,946 posts)
9. I think with some military people, especially the ones who have risen so high on the rules
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:40 AM
Sep 2020

of the military, that "obey your superiors" habit is all but insurmountable. Which is disturbing, especially at that level, because those at that level need to be able to think for themselves.

I think he lived a variation of the Peter Principal: he was promoted to his level of incompetence. His absolute adherence to obedience got him to a position in which absolute adherence to obedience was destructive and should have been disqualifying.

fishwax

(29,149 posts)
11. And Kelly still took the chief of staff job ... for anyone thinking trump supporters will jump ship
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 01:13 PM
Sep 2020

over this

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