The White House defended Chief of Staff John Kelly after he called a Democratic congresswoman an “empty barrel” making noise. According to a Trump spokeswoman, it is inappropriate to question Kelly in light of his stature as a retired four-star general.
In the meantime, the administration insisted that it is long past time to end the political arguing over president’s compassion for America’s war dead, even as it lobbed vilification at Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson, AP reports.
Kelly denounced Wilson’s criticism of Trump and condemned her remarks she had made at a Miami event. According to Kelly, Wilson delivered a 2015 speech at an FBI field office dedication in which she talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, rather than focusing on the fallen agents. Still, video of the speech contradicts his impression.
Wilson said that the White House is full of white supremacists, while Trump called Wilson’s criticism of Kelly “sickening.”
Everything started when Wilson told reporters that the president had insulted the family of one soldier who was killed in Niger two weeks ago. Trump wrote on Twitter that the “fake news is going crazy with wacky Congresswoman Wilson, who was secretly on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content!” Kelly supported the president and suggested that Wilson was just grandstanding. Meanwhile, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders chastised reporters for questioning the account of a decorated general.
“If you want to go after General Kelly, that’s up to you. But I think that if you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that that’s something highly inappropriate,” she said.
But Senator Lindsey Graham had a response for that.
“No, not in America,” he said.
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