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John Kelly Finally Lets Loose on Trump
The Atlantic ^ | 2/13/20 | Peter Nicholas

Posted on 02/13/2020 4:07:30 AM PST by DoodleDawg

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide and impeachment witness President Donald Trump fired Friday, was just doing his job, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told students and guests at a Drew University event here Wednesday night.

Over a 75-minute speech and Q&A session, Kelly laid out, in the clearest terms yet, his misgivings about Trump’s words and actions regarding North Korea, illegal immigration, military discipline, Ukraine, and the news media.

Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, said that Vindman is blameless and was simply followed the training he’d received as a soldier; migrants are “overwhelmingly good people” and “not all rapists”; and Trump’s decision to condition military aid to Ukraine on an investigation into his political rival Joe Biden upended long-standing U.S. policy.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 202002; alexandervindman; backstabber; bestpeople; cia; desperate; establishment; johnkelly; kelly; marinesactivated; mattis; theatlantic; trump; trusttheplan; vindman
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I'm mildly surprised that Kelly kept his mouth shut this long.
1 posted on 02/13/2020 4:07:30 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Another EX-Marine. Most are Marines till the day they die.


2 posted on 02/13/2020 4:10:17 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: DoodleDawg

Have none of these tin soldiers heard of the Hatch Act? If you want to be military, you don’t get to pick sides. Stay the hell out of politics.


3 posted on 02/13/2020 4:11:49 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: LeonardFMason
Derp State Kelly opines.

GFY Kelly.


4 posted on 02/13/2020 4:13:54 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: DoodleDawg

Most of what he says in this article implies that he had policy disputes with the President, not that Trump was committing “crimes” as the Democrats allege.

I thought the President’s staff was supposed to carry out his policies, not try to impose their own?

If he has different political views he wants to promote, Kelly should run for office himself, not try to sabotage the current CIC from within.


5 posted on 02/13/2020 4:15:30 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: bagster

This is the arse that convinced Trump to stay in Afghanistan. My sole problem with Trump is in who he hires and this clown is Exhibit A; you are in a position of confidence and you betray every bit of it, he is probably writing a book to make money now. Makes me sick.


6 posted on 02/13/2020 4:16:04 AM PST by laconic
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To: laconic

Blue Falcon. Fire every flag officer promoted by 0bama. NOW.


7 posted on 02/13/2020 4:18:42 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
If he has different political views he wants to promote, Kelly should run for office himself

Well, that's what a man of HONOR would do....

8 posted on 02/13/2020 4:19:47 AM PST by onona
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It appears our military is well on it’s way to being fundamentally transformed.


9 posted on 02/13/2020 4:21:11 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: DoodleDawg

Funny. I wasn’t aware that part of his job description was leaking classified info to a third party.


10 posted on 02/13/2020 4:21:25 AM PST by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: LeonardFMason

A better reputed 4 star was promoted 29Dec2019, & is being buried today in several hours at Arlington. PX Kelley RIP. Semper Fi


11 posted on 02/13/2020 4:23:19 AM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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Roger Stone was very prescient - he warned against the hiring of this guy, McMaster and other self-important Deep State types that had their own agenda and had been elected to nothing. For a military officer to betray his commander in chief who elevated him to a position of authority amazes me and shows what a low rent, scheming type this Kelly was and is. I’m sure his book is coming next.


12 posted on 02/13/2020 4:24:37 AM PST by laconic
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To: DoodleDawg

Trump massively increasing DOD budget and this is the thanks he gets? We’re going to have trillion dollar defecits becasue of that and Trump is going to pay a price politically. And this is the thanks he gets? Honestly, I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of ingrates than “Trump’s Generals.”


13 posted on 02/13/2020 4:25:42 AM PST by lodi90
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These Never Trump military brass are all campaigning to be the Dems VP pick. Guaranteed.


14 posted on 02/13/2020 4:26:49 AM PST by lodi90
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To: DoodleDawg

Is EX-Marine John Kelly saying lard ass Vindman was trained to ignore the Chain Of Command!?


15 posted on 02/13/2020 4:29:11 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: DoodleDawg

Supervising the President was NOT Vindman’s job.


16 posted on 02/13/2020 4:29:22 AM PST by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

It was clear Kelly was working against Trump from the start. Yet another bad hire on Trump’s part.


17 posted on 02/13/2020 4:29:58 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: DoodleDawg

Using money to get another nation to enact your policies is deserving of impeachment unless you use money to raise the drinking age to 21 or lower the speed limit to 55.....then using money as leverage is just fine.


18 posted on 02/13/2020 4:30:09 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: DoodleDawg
“overwhelmingly good people” and “not all rapists”

I would guess that more people than not in the world are 'good people' and 'not all rapist' but they don't belong here and don't have a right to be here..

19 posted on 02/13/2020 4:31:27 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: DoodleDawg
Kelly has been a great big disappointment to me.

Semper Fidelis

20 posted on 02/13/2020 4:31:37 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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