In a last-ditch attempt to thwart the former president’s profit as the duly elected commander-in-chief, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is once more making outrageous claims about Donald Trump’s alleged disdain for the defense.
The Atlantic published a second popular piece about the Republican nominee last week that was remarkably similar to the magazine’s smear campaign that accused then-President Trump of demonizing fallen soldiers as “losers” and” fools.” According to Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who relied wholly on private sources for the election-year struck in 2020, Trump had refused to visit the tombs of National World War I soldiers at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, during a 2018 trip to France out of anger for the deceased veterans.
” Why should I go to that tomb? It’s filled with morons”, Goldberg claimed Trump said.
More than a few officials who went on the record soon refuted the anonymous source’s claim that the president had attempted to kill him for his support of the American military. Four years ago, Goldberg publicly refuted his promises, including his former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who traveled with the leader to France with him in 2018 before turning into one of Trump’s media main protagonists.
According to Bolton,” the primary issue was whether or not the weather permitted the president to visit the Aisne-Marne cemetery,” according to Bolton on Fox News. Inclement weather caused officials to halt the presidential visit due to safety concerns.
While almost every White House national involved with the journey denied The Atlantic’s claims about Trump’s purpose to refrain from visiting the international tomb, John Kelly, who was likely one of the paper’s four private sources for the original article, went on to” validate” the story on record three years later. Then Kelly is being cited in The Atlantic’s latest election-year struck on the previous president, which attacks him for presumably admiring the commanders of Adolf Hitler
” This month, I asked Kelly about their exchange”, Goldberg reported.
He told me that when Trump raised the subject of” European commanders”, Kelly responded by asking,” ‘ Do you think Bismarck’s commanders?'” He went on:” I mean, I knew he did n’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said,’ Do you think the king’s commanders? Surely you ca n’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said,’ Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s commanders.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to end his life because he had participated in a Hitler story. Kelly claimed that Trump had no knowledge of Rommel.
Goldberg also claimed that Trump made disparaging remarks about a soldier’s death in Fort Hood, Texas after making an Oval Office explore with the victim’s home. The chairman complained about the cost after Trump pledged to support the government’s initial costs.
” It does n’t cost 60, 000 bucks to bury a f-cking Mexican”! Trump is accused of telling Mark Meadows, the then-White House Chief of Staff.
Meadows and a number of other administrative staff members have gone on the record once more to discredit Goldberg’s most recent reach. The soldier’s community, whose death Democrats politicized in order to criticize Trump as racist, also attacked the publication’s monitoring.
” Wow. I do n’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics — hurtful &, disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members”, Mayra Guillén, the fallen soldier’s sister, wrote in an online post. ” President Donald Trump only showed appreciation to my home and, respectively, Vanessa. In truth, I voted for President Trump today”.
Others who have publicly disputed Goldberg’s latest monitoring include the Guillén mom’s attorney, Meadows spokesman Ben Williamson, Trump official Alex Pfeiffer, former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel, former White House deputy assistant Theo Wold, former evil presidential chief of staff Nick Ayers, and former vice presidential national security adviser Keith Kellogg.
Some people claim to believe Kelly, but others have issues with her and the angry former head of workers.
Former senior Trump national Kevin Carroll, who was identified by USA Today as a former top adviser to Kelly, stated to reporters that Kelly’s engagement was” no little stage” for the former top Trump standard.
According to reports, Carroll claims that “he’s seen Donald Trump up close in a way that few other Americans have.” ” He’s warning us that a second Trump term would be dangerous”.
A former Trump official familiar with Carroll’s role in the administration, however, characterized him in an interview with The Federalist as a “disgruntled, unprofessional attorney”. More importantly, the official said, “he was n’t really a close confidante of General Kelly”.
Exaggeration of White House influence is a common theme among former Trump administration officials who have abused the hostility of the old media against the former president. For instance, The New York Times published an op-ed from an anonymous author who claimed to be a” senior administration official” and described deep state efforts to undermine the president’s agenda from within the federal government’s upper echelons in 2018. Later, the author was exposed as a Department of Homeland Security low-level bureaucrat.
Kelly, who served as the White House’s chief of staff, is accused of deceiving President Trump. Last week, Mark Paoletta, an attorney and veteran of the Trump administration who worked in the Office of Management and Budget, detailed Kelly’s dynamic on X. For instance, Kelly prevented White House officials from providing a report on the funding for the construction of the southern border wall to Trump in 2018. Kelly would later call the wall, which was a hallmark promise of Trump’s 2016 campaign, a “waste of money” during an interview at Duke University a year later.
By refusing to give the President legal options to carry out his policies, John Kelly was insubordinate and duplicitous, Paoletta wrote last week.
Paoletta claimed in another incident that Kelly had blocked a recommendation calling for the DOJ to look into election fraud.
When I first started my legal career, I developed a list of prior presidential directives to the DOJ to investigate a particular issue in order to demonstrate that it had strong historical and tradition backing, according to Paoletta. I shared the list of Presidents who have instructed the DOJ to take up specific issues during a meeting with Kelly and others. Kelly said he would never disclose this list to the president because it “would be awful if President Trump knew he could do this”
” John Kelly believed he knew more than President Trump, and he opposed many of his policies,” Paoletta continued. Kelly dishonestly attempted to thwart President Trump’s policies, and he was perfectly fine with not doing everything possible to stop illegal aliens from entering our country and murdering innocent Americans, all to protect the bloated bureaucracy of his DOD.
Republican vice presidential nominee J. D. Vance claimed Kelly and his supporters among Trump’s deep state supporters were just neocons who advocated for “ridiculous wars” on CNN over the weekend.
” Donald Trump would n’t listen to the leadership of the military when they wanted him to start ridiculous conflicts”, Vance said Sunday. ” A lot of former members of the Pentagon bureaucracy, a lot of neoconservatives, they have a fundamental difference with Donald Trump on the question of peace and war”.
