"The problem is the president doesn't know any of this," retired Gen. John Kelly told Fiona Hill at the 2018 G20 summit, according to Hill's new book.
"I knew he was probably watching TV waiting for it, and I put it out, and it's one of my biggest regrets," Grisham said of the 2019 statement.
"I don't know if the decision went all the way up to General Kelly, although he was the type of guy who liked top-to-bottom control," Grisham wrote.
Trump made the comment during a 2018 visit to Europe to mark a World War I anniversary, Michael Bender wrote. Trump has denied making it.
It only took 24 hours for Trump to sell out his supporters who carried out a terrorist attack on the Capitol last Wednesday with his blessing. Please don’t be surprised. Trump has never had anything but contempt for his supporters. They are his marks, and no seasoned scammer respects his […]
John Kelly, who served as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff from July 2017 to January 2019, called for the president’s removal via the 25th Amendment on Thursday. “What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the […]
President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff said the delay in the transition process for President-election Joe Biden hurts US national security. “It’s about the nation. It hurts our national security,” John Kelly told Politico of the delay in the transition process. Trump has refused to concede to Biden, and […]
Ex-Trump administration officials tend to agree on one thing: Their former boss is a walking disaster. Whether they’re four star generals, energy company CEOs, or career civil servants, they paint a frightening picture of an unstable ignoramus in the White House. Trump, naturally, calls them bitter liars. Who are you […]
A former senior White House official said the controversial remarks President Donald Trump was reported to have made, according to The Atlantic, resembled his speech pattern and was “so consistent with who he is.” “He uses the word ‘loser’ as often as he can,” the former official told Insider, adding […]
President Donald Trump said his former chief of staff, retired Gen. John Kelly, was “eaten alive” and “unable to handle the pressure of this job” at a Friday press briefing. The president’s comments follow a Thursdayreport from The Atlantic that Trump skipped a visit to a World War I veteran […]
President Donald Trump questioned a Marine’s sacrifice during a Memorial Day visit to his grave with the man’s father, The Atlantic reported Thursday. “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” Trump was said to have asked retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, who later became Trump’s chief […]
The former White House chief of staff John Kelly had a vivid simile for the experience of refusing President Donald Trump’s requests, according to an upcoming book. The book, “Donald Trump v. The United States,” said that Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, has said that having to say no […]
John Kelly, President Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff and a retired Marine Corps general, said on Friday that he agreed with former Secretary of Defence James Mattis’ assessment that Trump was harming the US. In an interview with Anthony Scaramucci, the White House communications director whom Kelly promptly ousted […]
President Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, defended former Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis Thursday after Trump blasted Mattis on Twitter Wednesday night. Trump claimed that he fired Mattis and asked for his resignation, two points that Kelly rejected in an […]
Two weeks after Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury,” then-White House chief of staff John Kelly privately said the president did not fully grasp the implication of his messages, according to ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl’s new book. “He needs to understand that 18- and 19-year-old people […]
According to a new book on the Trump administration, former White House chief of staff said the most important advice he gave to the president was not to tweet. “No. Don’t tweet that. No,” Kelly said in the book, according to Axios. “Don’t change your policy on that. No, no, […]
President Donald Trump boasted that his administration was staffed with notable members of the US armed forces. Many of those senior military officials have since left his administration. Some of these officials have been outspoken in their opposition to Trump’s policies, like former chief of staff John Kelly, who called […]
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