Posted on 07/31/2017 2:10:51 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Washington (CNN)New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning, according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey.
Both sources cautioned that it was unclear how serious Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security, was about resigning himself.
"John was angry and hurt by what he saw and the way (Comey) was treated," one of the sources said.
Comey learned of his dismissal on May 9 from televisions tuned to the news as he was addressing the workforce at the FBI office in Los Angeles, law enforcement sources said at the time. Comey made a joke about it to lighten the mood and called his office to get confirmation.
Comey, who took Kelly's call while traveling back from Los Angeles to Washington, responded to Kelly by telling him not to resign, one of the sources said.
The sources said Comey and Kelly are not close friends but that they had a professional relationship and a deep mutual respect for each other.
Comey declined to comment for this story. The White House and the Department of Homeland Security have not responded to requests for comment.
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Being this is CNN I will wait for more sources to this story. CNN has no credibility with me.
... according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey...
Fake News.
Well, it’s CNN so it must be true.
Why should we (or President Trump) trust someone who has “deep respect” for James Comey? Then again, it’s CNN, so there’s no reason to accept this statement as true to begin with.
Newt may still have a shot. Anything can happen.
TUROTD
CNN and the same old anonymous sources.
Hey CNN, get back to me when you name your sources.
I don’t know what that means. You’ll have to spell that one out.
CNN is no more reliable than the Internet on whole.
I wouldn’t rely on CNN to tell me the time of day.
Considering this is CNN and their famous “unknown sources”, color me skeptical.
Right. Anyone who covers for hilLIAR with the phony “intent” standard doesn’t deserve one milligram of “R E S P E C T”
Yep, more CNN chum on the water to distract the concerned ones.
CNN psych-ops
I love Newt for the job...keep your friends close and keep enemies closer...
I think we have six or seven chief of staffs to go.
Totally Unconfirmed Rumor Of The Day.
Don’t feel bad about not knowing it. I made it up.
:)
, neither of whom we spoke with. CNN forgot that part.
You have every right to question CNN. I do too. I first read about it in another thread wherein someone said that Rush said it. Here’s from Rush’s show:
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/07/31/general-kelly-cuts-mooch-loose/
“Sources say....”
If that isn’t enough to scream FAKE NEWS!!!
Then the CNN byline is.
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