White House: Questioning a four-star general is highly inappropriate
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked the White House press corps not to do their jobs — question power — on Friday afternoon, saying that debating with a four-star general was “highly inappropriate.”
The comment was the culmination of an ongoing feud between White House chief of staff John Kelly (who is a four-star general) and Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
On Thursday, Kelly said Wilson was politicizing a call President Trump made to Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson, during which the president said her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, “must have known what he signed up for” before he was killed during an ambush in Niger. Kelly also remarked on a speech Wilson gave in 2015 at the FBI, where Kelly said Wilson bragged about getting funding for the agency rather than focusing on two agents who had died.
Video of the speech has since surfaced, as reported by the Sun-Sentinel, and it doesn’t appear to show Wilson talking about funding for the agency, despite Kelly’s comments. On Friday, a reporter asked Sanders whether Kelly still stood by his claim, given the new video evidence. Sanders said Kelly “absolutely” does.
https://thinkprogress.org/sanders-kelly-wilson-feud-6425012f705b/
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