After Video Contradicts John Kelly, White House Doubles Down In Defense

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By MATT SHUHAM Published OCTOBER 20, 2017 1:20 PM

The White House on Friday stood behind its chief of staff, despite video showing definitively that he misspoke when he attacked a Democratic congresswoman on Thursday.

Though John Kelly originally attacked Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) on Thursday for bragging about securing funding for an FBI building at a dedication ceremony in 2015, video published by the Sun Sentinel Friday of that 2015 event shows that Wilson did no such thing. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in a statement to TPM, glossed over Kelly’s inaccuracies.

“Gen. Kelly said he was ‘stunned’ that Rep. Wilson made comments at a building dedication honoring slain FBI agents about her own actions in Congress, including lobbying former President Obama on legislation,” Sanders said in a statement. But that’s not an accurate summary of the chief of staff’s statement. Kelly said he was “stunned” that Wilson had spoken about securing the building’s funding. In reality, she had only briefly mentioned her efforts to pass legislation to have the building named after two fallen FBI officers. And, secondly, Wilson made no mention of lobbying Obama in her 2015 speech, according to the Sentinel’s video.

Neither Sanders nor another White House spokesperson responded to TPM’s questions about the details it mischaracterized in recounting Kelly’s attack.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-house-statement-kelly-video-wilson

[dhill926]

1. He didn't misspoke.....

He fucking LIED. Bit of a difference.

[csziggy]

7. And then Sanders LIED about what Kelly said

They can't stop themselves - they lie as easily as they breath.

[Iliyah]

2. For their base only.

Who ever is responding from the WH which include Kelly, don't care about facts nor truth. Fuck them.

[Corgigal]

10. Which is fine,

If they are the only ones going to war or being toasted by a nuclear attack.

[mpcamb]

14. If it's for their base, they're down to below 30 and hovering at 25%. When it's 20%, they'll fold.

The kinds of issues that will get it there are so eye-opening that the sentient among them will throw in their cards. Happened with Nixon. When even the most R of the Republicans couldn't support the lies and hypocrisy they caved. This is a different group of people but I believe the numbers are the same.
There's just more intransigence.

[justhanginon]

3. Kelly got that misinformation as he had breakfast with trump while

sitting on trump's lap feeding him his oatmeal and watching fox news. No need for either of them to check the accuracy, it was on fox so that was apparently enough.

[msongs]

4. doubling down works. long military tradition. the big lie and all that nt

[captain queeg]

5. "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Mr. Welch: You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

They finally stood up to McCarthy, when will they stand up to the Orange Abomination and company?

[Delphinus]

13. Amen.

When will they stand up to the Orange Abomination and Company (love that term, by the way)?

[captain queeg]

16. the orange abomination

I'm glad you like it, I haven't get found a good nick-name. Seems all the obvious were taken. I think I'll stick with the name for him

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. As long as they never actually admit they are lying

Their ignorant deplorable base will stand by them. They have been successfully programed that every other news network other than Fox is fake news. Even replaying video that totally contradicts their Dear Leader or his stooges is not enough.

[BigDemVoter]

8. Kelly is a nasty piece of rank shit.

[BainsBane]

9. Was he stunned by Trump before the wall at Langley?

Talk about hypocrisy

[Sunlei]

11. what a Drama Queen that General Kelly is, what government job was he appointed for?

[noneof_theabove]

12. 3-D's of the WH

Denigrade
Deny
Deflect

Lyin' is a firin'

[Ferretherder]

15. DenigraTe. Sorry, just wanted to help out, there.

But, I WOULD say you made me think about how this Orange-faced baboon has 'degraded' the office of the presidency!

[Grammy23]

17. That did it for me as far as Kelly is concerned.

I was willing to believe he had been brought in to help contain tRump. That was a nice thought but rather irrelevant at this point.

Even if Kelly took to a microphone in the Rose Garden and issued an apology, he is nothing in my book. Four stars, my ass. He has proven himself to be as nasty and hard headed as tRump ever thought about being. He is a disgrace to the Marine Corp to be shown and told that his remarks were way off base and still he won’t apologize. It reveals him to be a man of very small, minuscule character.