CNN's Zeleny: Gen. Kelly & wife at Gold Star breakfast at WH in 2011, Mrs. Obama's table

[highplainsdem]

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Gen. Kelly and wife attended Gold Star families breakfast at WH in 2011 and sat at Mrs. Obama's table, person familiar with breakfast says.

[gratuitous]

1. Compare and contrast, class

How did the Obamas treat a gold star family that may have disagreed with them politically to how Trump treated a gold star family that disagreed with him politically.

Any other questions, Mr. Trump?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Trump lied......WE GOT HIM!!!!

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Wait, wait.....never mind. He's still the President.

[HAB911]

3. We keep getting him, maybe on of these days..............

[brush]

4. Looks like Kelly lied too. Oh wait, Kelly said O didn't call him. Guess he forgot being invited to..

a Gold Star dinner where he sat at the table with Michelle O.

My opinion of Kelly just cratered. Does everyone in that admin lie (alternate facts) so blatantly?

[Baconator]

5. CNN says he hasn't said anything...

"CNN asked the White House to talk to Kelly about this issue, but they declined to make him available. Kelly also has not responded to a direct request from comment from CNN."

[Thrill]

9. Hell avoid comment. Because he doesnt want to lie on the record

On something like that

[hlthe2b]

6. DID HE? (Kelly) I haven't seen any confirmation that Kelly ACTUALLY told Trump that.

Trump has repeatedly made up lies and attributed to others so....? I am not defending Kelly by any means but I DO want to know the truth.

[Baconator]

10. Trump trotted him out to bank on his reputation...

The primary reason he has kept the generals around.

[notdarkyet]

14. trumps newest deflection from his latest lies about families of fallen soldiers

Was to throw Kelly to the wolves. Losing his son wasn't grief enough, now trump wants him to prove his loyalty to the liar in chief. Kelly's in a hard position.

[George II]

15. Kelly doesn't want to talk about this, and I'm sure he's angry with his "boss" for politicizing....

....the deaths of American military including his son.

[brush]

20. That could be the case, but when are they going to stop with the being angry and say enough is...

is enough and resign in disgust?

[Johonny]

7. pointless shitstorms is all Trump can offer America

[Achilleaze]

8. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief doubling down on his lies

republicans = all lies all the time

[Botany]

11. but but but my generals told me ......

Trump and his followers are unburdened by his lies. Remember his, "I finished top
of my class @ Wharton?"


Trump's Business School Professor Says He Was Dumbest Student He Ever Had


http://www.vladtv.com/article/234814/trumps-business-school-professor-says-he-was-dumbest-student-he-ever-had

[MontanaMama]

12. General Kelly has likely gone through hell

losing his son. However, the hell he is in now is of his own making...he has sold his soul and in turn has sold out his country.

[Fred Sanders]

13. The American obsession with "honoring" troops, dead or alive, is just another massive

propaganda operation brought to you by the military/industrial complex.

Soldiers die. They all know the risks when they sign up. And when you have tens of thousands of them all over the world purposely placed in dangerous situations and your are spending 600 billion a year on them on a world push for dominance....some will die.

Soldiers and their families should not be feted because they are dead. Families and soldiers do not start the war. If we honor them then why not honor those that started the wars and conflicts that they died in in the first place?

I think they should have our sympathy at all times, but being in a voluntary profession where it is kill or be killed and you are the one getting killed....that is what soldiers do is it not?

[Marengo]

18. Are you familiar with the concept of the "economic draft"?

[George II]

16. If trump decided to shit on the floor in the middle of the Oval Office...

...he'd probably justify it by saying "Obama never used the bathroom, either"!

[highplainsdem]

17. AP reporting that WH visitor records back this up:

via WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-obama-hosted-kelly-at-breakfast-after-son-died/2017/10/17/02c36956-b360-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html

White House visitor records from former President Barack Obama’s term show that he hosted current White House chief of staff John Kelly at a breakfast for Gold Star families after his son died in Afghanistan.

[stollen]

19. So many officers suffered the same fate, that of a child lost in combat...

Kelly wouldn't have wanted special attention drawn to him. On the other hand, why drag this out now? I assume he said something to Trump.


Many Officers' Sons Serve in Armed Services

That the Kelly brothers would follow their father into military service is not uncommon in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the sons of many general officers are serving in combat.

Defense Secretary Gates recently noted this reality in a speech at Duke University, where he said he was struck "by the large number of our senior officers whose children are in uniform, including the recent commander of all U.S. forces in Iraq whose son was seriously wounded in the war."

Gates was referring to Gen. Ray Odierno, whose son, Tony, lost an arm during a combat tour in Iraq as an Army lieutenant.

http://abcnews.go.com/News/star-marine-generals-son-killed-afghanistan/story?id=12122030