Kelly: 'To be honest, it's not a wall'
Source: The Hill
Outgoing White House chief of staff John Kelly said in an interview published Sunday that the Trump administration has moved on from the push for a concrete wall along the southern border.
"To be honest, its not a wall, Kelly told The Los Angeles Times.
The president still says wall oftentimes frankly hell say barrier or fencing, now hes tended toward steel slats," Kelly added. "But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it."
Kelly, who will leave the administration in the coming days after a contentious tenure, said Customs and Border Protection Agents told him during his brief stint as Homeland Security secretary that they need physical barriers in some areas, but largely indicated a desire for new technology and additional personnel.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/423213-kelly-to-be-honest-its-not-a-wall
Top officials from the Pentagon and the CIA, the director of national intelligence, diplomats and lawmakers huddled with Trump as Kelly and others urged him not to give up in Afghanistan.
When I first took over, he was inclined to want to withdraw from Afghanistan, Kelly recounted during an exclusive two-hour interview with the Los Angeles Times.
He was frustrated. It was a huge decision to make ... and frankly there was no system at all for a lot of reasons palace intrigue and the rest of it when I got there.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-john-kelly-exit-interview-20181230-story.html
Autumn
(44,743 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)marble falls
(56,353 posts)atreides1
(16,046 posts)WTF would Kelly know about being honest!!!
Still carrying Trump's water, Mr.Kelly???
watoos
(7,142 posts)since Flynn is busy, Turkey really needs a lobbyist. Erdogan wants to kill Kurds but Putin is hedging.
If the truth be known, this Syria fight may all be about 2 proposed pipelines, one of the routes will benefit Russia.
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)FormerOstrich
(2,689 posts)Kelly is all about Kelly. After reading this interview I am leaning towards him authoring the "adults in the room" editorial.
In the phone interview Friday, Kelly defended his rocky tenure, arguing that it is best measured by what the president did not do when Kelly was at his side.
It was only after Kellys departure was confirmed Dec. 8, for example, that Trump abruptly announced the pullout of all U.S. troops from Syria and half the 14,000 troops from Afghanistan, two moves that Kelly had opposed.
Kellys supporters say he stepped in to block or divert the president on dozens of matters large and small. They credit him, in part, for persuading Trump not to pull U.S. forces out of South Korea, or withdraw from NATO, as he had threatened.
While he pretends to sound loyal to Trump his interview does not paint a flattering picture of him.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)recent times ...
(and now confirmation is out that rump is considered to
be the worst EVER administration in this country's history) ...
and you were part of this disgusting mess. Makes me wonder how you made 'general'. You make me sick.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Maxheader
(4,366 posts)Get out the oxy/acetylene torch and arc gouge...
paleotn
(17,778 posts)That's NOT what the maroons who voted for shitler think. They envision something out of mideval europe. Not a damn fence. It's all a bunch of political bullshit. So just say we need some more fences, but really better technology and some more people. Problem solved. Jebus!!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Per the brilliant Nancy Pelosi, who knows damn well none of this is about a wall.
DemoTex
(25,370 posts)"To be honest, it's not shit. It's Shinola."