Bob Woodward says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly "are not telling the truth" when they deny making incendiary quotes about President Donald Trump
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Longtime journalist Bob Woodward says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly "are not telling the truth" when they deny making incendiary quotes about President Donald Trump attributed to them in his new book, "Fear."
Kelly is quoted calling Trump "an idiot" while Mattis is quoted saying Trump has the understanding of "a fifth- or sixth-grader." They've denied making the statements.
Asked Monday on NBC's "Today" show about their denials, Woodward said, "They are not telling the truth." He said "these are political statements to protect their jobs."
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Woodward said that "frequently" a source says something to him and then publicly denies it after publication.
Trump has called the book "fiction."
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I read an op-ed the other day that proposed that Kelly and Mattis wrote the NYT op-ed condemning Trump.
If that is the case, of course they would later deny saying bad things about Trump. The op-ed makes it clear that the writer of the Times op-ed believes they need to stay in their job in order to check Trump's reckless dysfunction. They would consider that anonymity much more important than being "truthful" about having written the letter to the newspaper. Without the anonymity they cannot continue to check Trump.
In other words, it is very plausible, indeed likely, that Mattis and Kelly's denial that they said bad things about trump is insincere.
So basically you are calling two clearly outstanding former Marines, liars.
Is that it John?
If they believe that they have to mislead Trump in order to continue to serve the purpose of keeping his worse impulses from being acted upon (to the detriment of the country) , then that may be what they would do.
As for lying, we already know that Kelly lied about the Florida congresswoman who he claimed made the opening of an FBI facility all about herself. A tape of her comments showed unequivocally that Kelly was lying.
I think Kelly and Mattis are patriots who would be willing to deceive Trump for the good of the nation.
Yeah, you have no idea of what the context of Kelly's comments were regarding the Fla congresswoman. Well, yeah i suppose you think you do. You have the liberal medias idea of what the context was. Kelly hasn't apologized for it and that is good enough for me.
I think you are hoping they have to deceive Trump. Then your long, two year crusade to torpedo him might finally bear fruit. Finally!
Your credibility on this site is going backwards. Of course I know what the context of Kelly's remarks about the congresswoman was. So does everyone else who read the news at that time.
People who blanketedly say that all negative news about Trump and his administration is the product of "liberal media bias" are hopeless.
Thanks for the comment. That means its going in a direction i would like it to.
A positive direction.
Nixon was brought down in large part by Bob Woodward's reporting, and an anonymous source close to the POTUS.
I believe Woodward over orange shit stain who has been caught in lies every time he opens his yap.
And i'll believe the word of two distinguished Marines over a reporter any day.
Any day.
And McCain???
But you support Captain Bone Spurs?
I did not agree with McCain on many...many things, but he stood up for this country and most of the time stood by his beliefs and values. He was a hero no matter his political affiliation.
What about him .... God rest his soul ....
They could be lying. It's a possibility. Bob should also consider his sources could be lying as well.