CNN anchor: White House thinks the US is a 'military dictatorship'

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

CNN anchor Erin Burnett said on Friday that the White House appears to think the U.S. is a military dictatorship after press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was "inappropriate" to question Chief of Staff John Kelly, who is a retired four star general.

"A military dictatorship-- that appears to be what the White House thinks the United States is. Today when pressed about false statements made by Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly about Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said it's inappropriate to question a four star general," Burnett said on her show "Out Front."

"It is appropriate to question the general. It was when we questioned him last night and it still is tonight. Questioning is fair, but Kelly's own boss, the man he's trying to defend in this whole controversy over the call to the family of a soldier killed in the Niger ambush, President Trump has no problem insulting, let alone questioning four star generals," she continued.

Burnett's comments come after Sanders defended Kelly on Friday. She pushed back on reporters questions about Kelly's comments on Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.).

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Read more: http://thehill.com/media/356495-cnn-anchor-white-house-thinks-the-us-is-a-military-dictatoriship

[rurallib]

1. that should get the tweeter on the sheeter pooping out some prose in the morning

[msongs]

2. nice opinion piece but title is incorrect. the news celebrity says the white house APPEARS to

think, not that it actually thinks

[Rollo]

3. I would never dream of accusing the Trump White House of "thinking" about anything...