Even conservative Erick Erickson is calling on Gen. Kelly to man up and apologize to Rep. Frederica Wilson
Even conservative Erick Erickson is calling on Gen. Kelly to man up and apologize to Rep. Frederica Wilson
Red State founder Erick Erickson is as conservative as they come but even he thinks that General John Kelly must come out and apologize for the White House’s attacks on Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
During a Friday appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the host noted that everyone thought Kelly would “save us” from President Donald Trump’s erratic ability to destabilize anything he touches. Instead, Maher said that Trump has rubbed off on Kelly.
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson said that Kelly must come out and apologize for his statement, referring to the accusations made against Wilson.
“I don’t think it was an intentional lie on his part,” Erickson said. “If it’s a pattern of behavior of his — and maybe it is — but right now I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he misspoke. Probably some other person at the White House gave him the wrong facts but he needs to apologize for it.”
Republican Margaret Hoover agreed, saying that Kelly was giving a very honest and emotional talk “and then he went down the Spicer route,” referring to former press secretary Sean Spicer, who was ridiculed for lying to the press so frequently.
“The president demands that the people who work for him go out and do his bidding at the expense of their own moral authority,” Hoover said. “This is where Kelly, sort of, lost that.”
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I don't think Kelly will apologize. He would forevermore be wondering when Trump was going to throw him under the bus for it.
He has done nothing to apologize for. He was not the one pulling a partisan political stunt.
By lying about the Congress Woman's 2015 speech "pulling off a partisan political stunt" is exactly what Kelly did and what he should apologize for.
I'm inclined to agree with whichever talking head it was that I heard last night, suggesting that General Kelly should man up, pick up the phone and apologize to the congress women one on one.
Keep the conversation off the books, a talk between the two adults, and then agree that, (for the two of them at least), that would be the end of the subject publicly.
Kelly should take to heart Will Rogers old warning;
It's stunning how many good reputations have been sacrificed on the Trump alter over the last 18 months or so.
Post- truth White House
Truth left the White House on 20 January 2009.
based on the intel from the Clinton era.
I must have missed Colin Powell mentioning to the UN that Bush relied on Clinton era intelligence.
Well...let's see...Bush elected in Jan 2000. We went into Afghanistan in Oct 2001, to root out the jackass muslim extremists called Al Queada that hit us on Sept 11, and we went after Iraq the following year...duh. Clinton operated the collection of intel from 1992- 2000.
We secretly extracted the last of the "yellowcake" from Iraq in 2008 .
Hope that helps.
Gee, I must have missed all of that during Powell's speech. He used a ton of information that we now KNOW was total bullshit. Some of it, Powell KNEW was bullshit and his OWN people have since documented that fact.
A fair majority of the rest was derived from 'Curveball', who the Germans informed the US was KNOWN to have fabricated information. That was reported to the US in late 2000 so the 'Clinton operation' found the facts.
Then, even though they had the 2000 report, the Bush Adminsitration went back to 'Curveball' and EVERYTHING that they used connected to 'Curveball' was gathered from him in early 2003.
Oh and BTW, we didn't go into Iraq 'the next year'.
Ohhhh, non-fissile yellow cake was moved from a destroyed storage center and sold to Canada. Sheesh.
Actually, since I easily refuted it, not so much...
Huh? So Bush was too stupid to rely on his own intel?
I have some compassion for Kelly - it was just a few days ago when he was a 4 star general retired - now he's just another politician.
The Trump Machine is sort of like a reverse car wash for all who enter its doors.
It's really not that hard corrupt a a righteous man (or woman) if you know just how to go about it. You start small - using the "greater good" argument...
No pity for self-inflicted wounds. Anybody with eyes could see what he was getting himself into.
‘Pick up the phone and say I apologize’: Medal of Honor recipient rips Kelly and Trump over fallen soldier... https://www. rawstory.com/2017/10/pick-u p-the-phone-and-say-i-apologize-medal-of-honor-recipient-rips-kelly-and-trump-over-fallen-soldier-response/ … # USRC
You don't apologize to someone that "politicizes" a military Death in the FIRST place !
You just tell those types to "F" off !
She's a celebrity now......According to her.
Kind of like her "I"....oooohhhhh.....and others too......Did the FBI naming thing to.
Gotta luv self love "ONE TIMERS" !
President* Trump has contaminated his chief of staff, General John Kelly.
Kelly either made a mistake or lied about Congresswoman Fredrica Wilson's speech that he referred to in his White House press briefing a couple days ago. The video of her entire speech that night has surfaced, and it definitively shows that Kelly spoke falsely about her and the speech.
If Kelly were just General Kelly and not Chief of Staff to Trump Kelly , he could find a way to retract or change his false statement.
But he works for Trump so that can't be done. He is stuck looking bad. That is what happens to everyone who sticks with Trump.
The article really isn't about your lack of knowledge, sorry.
The congress Women is the ONLY ass in this entire thing. She Loves the spotlight now put on HER for what SHE started. She doesn't give two shits about the family. If she did, she would have taped her mouth shut before she opened her pie hole.
No one suggested that he apologize to Trump.
You'd think Kelly would have said that to Trump instead of going out and running defense for him
Actually, Trump made her a celebrity. He can't stop talking about her.
Of course anyone who watched the video of her comments would know that is total fabrication.
I don't but it seems that all too many of the electorate adore the chief narcissist.
My thoughts.
First of all, I have near zero faith in Trump’s decisions as commander and chief. He was slow to even acknowledge these deaths and has yet to explain what these troops were doing in Niger or the circumstances of the incident. Telling a woman that her husband was killed in combat when she may not have known that he was in a combat area is understandably jolting.
Second, Trump decided to call the widow personally to express his condolences. Kelly told Trump what he was told when his own son was killed and Trump repeated it to the widow. I don’t see a thing wrong with what he said although, if he said it like he says everything else, it was probably a clumsy delivery. Everybody who signs up knows that they are signing up to kill or be killed. Their families know it too. Don’t want to take the risk? Don’t sign up.
Third, the widow put Trump on speakerphone. The congresswoman was in the car and overheard the conversation. The conversation wasn’t sacred. There’s nothing wrong with one friend letting another hear the president of the United States expressing his condolences. If Trump wanted a private conversation, then he should have requested it. He didn’t.
Fourth, the widow was offended by Trump calling her husband “her guy” instead of her husband. She can be offended but others may not have been offended at all. She also didn’t like Trump saying that her husband knew what he was getting into. I guess to her that means his death is no bid deal but that’s not what Trump meant nor would other people necessarily take it that way. This really isn’t Trump’s fault.
Fifth, attacking the congresswoman over her expressing how the family took the conversation is completely unnecessary. All Kelly had to do is say that Trump was giving a fairly standard expression of condolence, apologize for any misunderstanding on her part, decline to discuss it further, and just move on.
If Trump keeps up a foreign policy based on threats, insults, and ignorance, he may have a chance to polish his condolence speech with practice because he’ll get hundreds or thousands killed.