Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson hit back at White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, after he criticized her for sharing details of President Donald Trump’s phone call with the wife of deceased Army Sergeant, La David Johnson. , Newsweek reports.
“Kelly is almost, I guess you could say, he was a puppet of the president, and what he was trying to do was divert the attention away from the president and onto me,” Wilson said in an interview with MSNBC’s AM Joy.
She requested apology from Kelly, who previously said that she’s an empty barrel.
“He basically just lied on me, and I don’t appreciate people lying on me, and that’s what he did. I’ve been lied on before, but the character assassination that he went through, to call me out by my name ‘an empty barrel,’ and all of the work I’ve done in this community. Not only does he owe me an apology, he owes an apology to the American people, because when he lied on me he lied to them and I don’t think it’s fair. He owes the American people an apology for lying on one of their congresswomen,” Wilson said.
Last week Wilson said that she had overheard a conversation between Trump and Johnson’s widow and that Trump allegedly said to the widow that her husband knew what he was getting into. The president denied the claims and wrote on Twitter that Wilson is wacky. Kelly defended Trump and said that he advised him what to say to the mourning family.
“He was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew he was getting into by joining that one percent. He knew what the possibilities were because were at war when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this Earth, his friends,” Kelly said he told the president about Johnson.
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