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| CNN on the attack: Former White House chief of staff tells friends that Trump 'is the most flawed person' he's ever met |
| 2020-10-17 |
| [CNN] Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has told friends that President Donald Trump "is the most flawed person" he's ever known. "The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life," the retired Marine general has told friends, CNN has learned. The reporting comes from a new CNN special scheduled to air Sunday night, "The Insiders: A Warning from Former Trump Officials," in which former senior administration officials -- including former national security adviser John Bolton, former Health and Human Services scientist Rick Bright and former Department of Homeland Security general counsel John Mitnick -- explain why they think the President is unfit for office. Kelly's sentiments about the President's transactional nature and dishonesty have been shared by other former members of the Trump administration who also appear in the special. Olivia Troye, a former top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, has said the President knew about the impact the coronavirus pandemic would have on the US by mid-February, but that "he didn't want to hear it, because his biggest concern was that we were in an election year." Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of staff who now serves as a CNN contributor, has asserted Trump essentially calls individuals within the federal government who disagree with him "deep state." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Well that does it, I'm voting for Biden.... Not! |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-10-17 20:00 |
| #11 He doesn't comprehend, after Trump "Après nous, le déluge". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-10-17 18:07 |
| #10 I wonder how much they paid him to say this. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-10-17 16:54 |
| #9 To become a general officer requires being a politician. As U Sinatra said, politics is transactional - does Kelly not see it in himself? (And I am still waiting for an example of significant dishonesty - not saying there isn't one, but don't know of it.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-10-17 16:11 |
| #8 Kelly is a moron. All politics is transactional. If you work in the White House, then you serve the president at his will. Every great or even more than usually effective president we've ever had has known how to coerce, wheedle, charm, dissemble and manipulate others to get what he wants. Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan - all of them masters of transactional politics. Kelly sounds like a babe in the woods. Thank his Yrump ditched this squalling infant. |
| Posted by: Uloluck Sinatra2294 2020-10-17 13:13 |
| #7 Kelly served under Obama, right? You cannot tell me a Chicago pol didn't base EVERYTHING on "what can you do for me?" |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-10-17 13:06 |
| #6 People keep telling me how dishonest Trump is but they never provide meaningful examples(sure, he's a salesman by nature, and not careful in his words, but find meaningful lies.) At his level relationships are almost always transactional. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-10-17 11:34 |
| #5 If his 'friends' run to CNN the moment he relates something to them privately perhaps his judgement in 'friends' isn't quite what he imagines it to be. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2020-10-17 11:17 |
| #4 Not the first time someone has complained of The Boss being too weaselly in their words. General George C. Marshall, head of the US Army in WW2 and head of the "Marshall Plan" to repair Europe afterwards, had a 'chilly' relationship with FDR. "Mister President" when FDR wanted to be first-name pals and asked the General to extrapolate oft-hand remarks as policy. Perhaps the General remembered "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?!? (Henry II)" when he demanded distance and firm, explicit instructions. Explicit instruction mean a politician can't say later "I didn't mean that!" Or Kelly found out that he and Trump just didn't like each other. That he mentions it now is ... childish. |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-10-17 10:27 |
| #3 You shitheads brought us defeat and disaster in endless overseas wars. On your watch you allowed China to become a superpower and a global menace to this country. You supported an insane deal that would build up Iran, you needlessly provoked Russia, and you nearly plunged us into god only knows how many more overseas adventures from the Horn of Africa through Syria to North Africa. Trump called bullish!t on you incompetents. Kick and writhe and spit all you want. Your time is over. |
| Posted by: Phaviper Platypus6237 2020-10-17 10:15 |
| #2 Conclusion: when you pick a chief executive, look for the right kind of sonabitch? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-17 09:48 |
| #1 Excuse me! Flawed? Did this guy really serve in the Marines? |
| Posted by: Angoluling Ulealing4735 2020-10-17 09:39 |