Posted on 06/14/2023 5:11:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said that former President Trump is “scared s—less” after Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges related to his handling of classified materials on Tuesday.
“He’s scared s—less,” Kelly told The Washington Post. “This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this.”
Following his arraignment in Miami, Trump greeted supporters at a local restaurant and then returned to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., to deliver remarks to a cheering crowd.
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John Francis Kelly (born May 11, 1950) is an American former political advisor and retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served as White House chief of staff for President Donald Trump from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019. He had previously served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration and was commander of United States Southern Command. He is now a board member at Caliburn International.
Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and was commissioned as an officer near the end of college. He rose through the ranks, eventually serving in his last military post from 2012 to 2016 as a four-star general leading United States Southern Command, the unified combatant command responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Prior to joining the Trump administration in January 2017, Kelly had been on the board of advisors of DC Capital Partners, an investment firm that now owns Caliburn.
Kelly was selected as the first Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration.
In 1970, when his mother told him that his draft number was coming up, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.
...completed Officer Candidates School, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on December 27, 1975. In 1976, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston and in 1984, he received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. In 1995, Kelly graduated from the National Defense University in Washington, DC with a Master of Science in Strategic Studies.
In 1987, Kelly transferred to the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, serving first as the head of the Offensive Tactics Section, Tactics Group, and later assuming the duties of the Director of the Infantry Officer Course.
In 1999, Kelly transferred to joint duty and served as the special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, in Mons, Belgium. He returned to the United States in 2001 and was assigned to a third tour of duty at Camp Lejeune, now as the assistant chief of staff G-3 with the Second Marine Division. In 2002, Kelly again served with the 1st Marine Division, this time as the assistant division commander. Much of Kelly’s two-year assignment was spent deployed in Iraq. In March 2003, while in Iraq, Kelly was promoted to brigadier general, which was the first known promotion of a Marine Corps colonel in an active combat zone since that of another First Marine Division assistant division commander, Chesty Puller, in January 1951.
In April 2003, Kelly took command of the newly formed Task Force Tripoli and drove it north from Baghdad into Samarra and Tikrit. Kelly has stated that during the initial assault on Baghdad he was asked by a reporter for The Los Angeles Times if, considering the size of the Iraqi Army and the vast supplies of tanks, artillery and chemical weapons available to Saddam’s forces, he would ever consider defeat. Kelly’s response, as recounted by him at a 2007 San Diego Military Advisory Council networking breakfast, was, “hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima
....His next assignment was as legislative assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Michael Hagee. In January 2007, Kelly was nominated for major general, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 11, 2007.
Kelly’s next assignment, in July 2007, was as commanding general, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). On February 9, 2008 Kelly assumed command of the Multi-National Force–West in Iraq, replacing Major General Walter E. Gaskin. After a year in Iraq, Kelly returned to the United States in February 2009.
Kelly was the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense and personally greeted Secretary Leon Panetta at the entrance to the Pentagon on July 1, 2011, Panetta’s first day as secretary.
He succeeded General Douglas M. Fraser as commander of U.S. Southern Command on November 19, 2012.
In a May 2014 speech regarding the War on Terror, Kelly said:
If you think this war against our way of life is over because some of the self-appointed opinion-makers and chattering class grow ‘war weary,’ because they want to be out of Iraq or Afghanistan, you are mistaken. This enemy is dedicated to our destruction. He will fight us for generations
On December 7, 2016, then President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a cabinet-level position. People familiar with the transition said that Trump’s team was drawn to Kelly because of his southwest border expertise.
Kelly said he believed “a border wall is essential” as there were “tremendous threats” such as drugs and individuals coming into the US.
In May 2017, Kelly said of terrorism, “It’s everywhere. It’s constant. It’s nonstop. The good news for us in America is we have amazing people protecting us every day. But it can happen here almost anytime.” He said that the threat from terrorism was so severe that some people would “never leave the house” if they knew the truth.
The DHS under Kelly “became one of the few branches of the federal government that has been both willing and able to execute Trump’s policy priorities.” Unlike other agency heads, Kelly did not clash with Trump.
Trump appointed Kelly to the post of White House Chief of Staff on July 28, 2017
When Trump arrived in Singapore in June 2018 for the North Korea–United States summit, the New York Times reported that Kelly had told a recent group of visiting senators the White House was “a miserable place to work.”
On December 7, 2018, CNN and others reported that Kelly and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and that Kelly was expected to resign in the coming days.
On the day after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Kelly said he supported Trump’s removal from office by use of the 25th Amendment, adding, “What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds.”
On November 9, 2010, Kelly’s 29-year-old son, First Lieutenant Robert Michael Kelly, was killed in action when he stepped on a landmine while leading a platoon of Marines on a patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan.
The younger Kelly was a former enlisted Marine and was on his third combat tour, his first combat tour as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kelly
“Democrats love to mind read. They know everything Trump is thinking lol”
No. Democrats are incapable of discerning anything. And to be a mind reader, they would first have to “have” a mind.
They are good at a few things, though. Lying, of course. But also projecting. They’re the ones that are “scared $hitless”...as proven by how desperately they are going after Trump and trying to eliminate him from running again for president. They’re scared that he will win again. Anyone that doesn’t see that by now must not have even one working brain cell... or the honesty to admit it.
John Kelley is from the same Boston cesspool that created as Gen Milley and health Adml “Rachel” Levine. He is of their ilk.
These treasonous turncoat backstabbers all showed their colors, yesterday/recently, didn’t they?
The biggest atrocity, action against a political opponent - weaponization of our govt agencies, in our country’s history, and....they all lined up, to prove how they’re nothing more than evil, swamp creatures....
Haley
Barr
Scott
Penced
Krispy
Kelly
Etc, etc....
"We just swore in Gen Kelly. He will do a spectacular job, I have no doubt" - D.Trump
Trump hires so many treasonous backstabbers that you should start to understand that the guy doing the hiring is the problem.
Trump is either terrible at hiring, or he is hiring good people and doing something bad to turn people against him.
Sure they are probably related somehow. They are both ethnically Jewish, both worked at the same prestigious law firm Paul Weiss, and both are going after Trump.
You’re blaming Pres Trump....rather than the evil, ensnaring swamp.
Telling.
So the buck doesn’t stop with the President?
John Kelly is beyond the propaganda mode he’s in the hide the fear and blame others who don’t have it.
Biden and stooges are doing every diversion gig to hide Biden’s fear he’s trapped by his own stupidity and the 17 recording prove it color him and crime family gone.
NOT BUYING ANY OF THIS
So the swamp doesn’t exploit, ensnare, compromise, and, OWN a majority of those who are career gov’t/Congress creeps?
Another Timber Rattler/Never Trumper FAIL! 😂
We see you down there in your basement, Midge McConnell. 😉
What a piece of chit. John Kelley can go to hell.
If you invite the swamp into your house, and then complain the carpet got wet, then you are the problem.
Trump was supposed to drain the swamp, but ended up swimming in it.
Wow. You really do know everything.
Look up Dunning Kruger.
Oh to be an advisor in Pres Trump’s second term
“Mr President, there’s no reason for any of these poles, that are no longer in the military or other governments positions to retain their TSSCI or TSSA clearances. They should have to wait 7 years for one, unless their subject matter expertise is sought and they’re ‘read in’ for a specific event’
Pres Trump: you’re right. Rescind all their clearances, especially Mattis’, Kelly’s and Clinton’s.
Talk about being scared sh*t.
Who would you have recommended Pres Trump *should* have ‘invited in? Name names.
Who would you have recommended/recommend, for President, that would/would’ve strictly hire/d from outside of the DC swamp...no known swamp connections, whatsoever?
Telling to see anyone, HERE, attacking Pres Trump, for the actions of the corrupt swamp. Anyone doing so....IS part of the problem.
You didn’t answer my question.
He’s not out for a casual swim in the swamp, he’s literally drowning in it. Someone throw him a liferaft!
Trump ain’t skeered. He looked pretty tired last night, but definitely not scared.
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