John Kelly’s History Of Anti-Trump Activism
And Smears
Daily Wire,
by
Ashe Schow
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
10/23/2024 8:27:38 PM
A hit piece published Tuesday in The Atlantic featured a claim from former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly that Trump had praised Adolf Hitler’s generals.
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg highlighted Kelly’s claims, which he alleges happened more than four years ago. It’s a recycled claim from a 2022 book by New York Times reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser, titled “The Divider: Trump in the White House.” The pair wrote in the book that Trump had asked Kelly, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?”
The Atlantic hit piece also included a smear from unnamed sources that has been dismissed by on-the-record sources
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
czechlist 10/23/2024 8:31:56 PM (No. 1818654)
no doubt he has something in his past he's afraid will be exposed (Epstein? Ukraine?) and/or he wants a position in a harris admin.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/23/2024 9:02:51 PM (No. 1818673)
The Germans had some great generals.
Hitler killed all of the great ones, including Rommel
Many of those generals tried to kill Hitler, and failed.
Is Kelly trying to kill Trump?
Kelly appears to me to be another one of Trumps mistakes. Trump picked a lot of terrible people to be on his staff of his administration. One of the things Trump said the other day when asked what he would do different, he said he would do better at picking his people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/23/2024 9:05:26 PM (No. 1818675)
Who gives a damn? The Atlantic is a boutique rag which panders to the left and survives despite any serious attempts at either journalism or profit. Its limited readership is already deeply ensnared DimoTwits. Its only excuse for survival is that 40% of American voters are foolish and blind to both history and truth.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/23/2024 10:04:08 PM (No. 1818706)
Across the board, and once reelected, the worst thing that Trump could do is continue to take advice and recommendations from establishment wimpy Republicans, as to him (Trump) appointing obvious Democrats to fill high level positions in his incoming administration. Trump should also remember that anytime he is dealing with military Admirals and Generals that he is in actuality dealing with “under the covers” partisan politicians who would not, especially in peacetime, be holding such high level military positions if they did not have DC political “godfathers” boosting him or her up, so to speak!
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In the beginning of the Trump Dynasty (Trump 45) Trump let other people make some cabinet positions. Maybe he was just doing friends a favor. They were only too willing
to help the new inexperienced president. They did not have his best interests in mind.
As Trump 47...he will not make those same mistakes again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/23/2024 11:02:15 PM (No. 1818732)
It might be something simple. As obvious as an offcie affair at DHS with that Krysten (sp?) woman... Too cozy Kelly oozed vanity and mendacity...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/23/2024 11:05:18 PM (No. 1818733)
Some of his most treacherous appointees were recommended/sponsored by Condolleezza Rice.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 10/24/2024 6:56:13 AM (No. 1818852)
Tell that rag, the Atlantic, to read a history book. Germany had some great generals. If Hitler had listened to them, the outcome of the war would have been very different.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/24/2024 8:22:25 AM (No. 1818898)
Kelly is of average size and we have plenty of orange jumpsuits available for him and his sycophants. My choice would be a position up against a wall and a couple of bullets but that would be cruel.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
felixcat 10/24/2024 8:49:57 AM (No. 1818928)
A reminder that Kelly was also the DHS Secretary from 2017 - 2017 and was excoriated by the Left for his views on the Civil war and how the Confederacy was unable/unwilling to compromise. Whether you agree with his opinion or not, Kelly was and is a jerk discussing topics like the Confederacy while Trump's Chief of Staff which had no bearing on his job - what an idiot to unnecessarily cause controversy for him and the Trump Admin early in the term. Kurt Schlicter had a good column in Townhall back when DeSantis was first thinking about running for President and how unlike Trump, Desantis, his experience as a junior Naval Officer, he would not be enamored of all the retired Generals and Admirals as Trump was.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/24/2024 9:42:10 AM (No. 1818962)
John Kelly throws more boomerangs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/24/2024 9:55:14 AM (No. 1818981)
President Trump has said a number of times...if his staff didn't do what he asked...he fired them...as he did with Kelly...so I get the animosity from Kelly...he was a general...after all...and how dare the President of the United States question his ideas and fire him....he's like bolton who thought he should have the last say on who should be attacked...these prior staffers to President Trump had dreams of grandeur and President Trump cut them off at the pass....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marbles 10/24/2024 10:59:42 AM (No. 1819014)
Trump is Hitler means ......if we don't stop him we're all going to jail or worse, for treason.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/24/2024 12:00:18 PM (No. 1819053)
Read his Wiki bio. We know these are basically self-composed. They are also self-revealing. Kelly thinks he's the greatest thing to hit the planet. Viewed his role with Trump as a disciplinary one, Suppposed ti be "the grownup in the room". What self-important nonsense.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hermoine 10/24/2024 12:18:01 PM (No. 1819062)
Trump's first term was extremely instructive. Naively, yet understandably, he relied on many GOP insiders and office holders for recommendations on who to appoint to some very important positions. In the process of this all playing out, it REVEALED who was and was not looking out for the best interest of the country, but were looking out for their own interests (mostly financial, but also about power). A lot of people have been revealed to have been absolutely corrupted by the Washington machine. That is what it does to MOST PEOPLE. I know a lot of good people who went to DC with admirable, respectable intentions. Little by little they traded this to get that (which seemed like healthy compromise), but in the end, they get you and you trade away everything, including your self-respect. The military honchos are some of the absolute worst because they cannot "cash-in" until they've fully risen in the ranks so they had to compromise so much to get that point that they go all-in for whoever is willing to scratch their back the most. It is sad and depressing. I really hope Trump cleans house as much as possible in his next term. He can't rid of all them, but he can make examples and make a big dent in the process.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 10/24/2024 12:26:34 PM (No. 1819064)
Well, I guess because the lie about Donald Trump saying "those are some very fine people" has been retracted, they have to come up with a new lie.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/24/2024 2:08:18 PM (No. 1819152)
Whoa! Surely in all of his many years of going to military schools and thus advancing in the ranks, surely Kelly should have known that a general does not question, disregard, countermand or attempt to discipline his Commander in Chief.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/24/2024 2:14:31 PM (No. 1819158)
Apparently many of the military under Trump wouldn't obey his orders, in other words, they were insubordinate. Like Kelly. My theory is that all his detractors thought themselves much smarter and more competent, which made the sting of having their opinions or persons dismissed all the more galling., hence Kelly and his like.
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