Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics
Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics
John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN.
In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
Trump said he did not want to visit the graves of American soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris because, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.
Kelly concluded, "God help us."
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These are only disturbing if you're nationalist sycophant lol.
as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
In reality: A mostly useless death and waste of $2,300,000,000,000 that resulted in 20 years of occupancy ending in a swift win by the Taliban when they all rolled over to let their women become 2nd class citizens.
During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.
He's not wrong. The military preys on the youth like a pastor preys on a choir boy. Crude? Sure, disturbing? GTFO out of here with this fake hero worship when even Republicans themselves don't give two shits about hypocrisy lol.
He's a callous shitbag is why. That's the correct answer. It has nothing to do with some deep thought on how the US exploits people, etc. It's a response he gave because he doesn't respect people regardless of whether they are dead or alive. The only people he respects are those in power.