Posted on 01/28/2020 1:53:13 PM PST by DoodleDawg
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said he believes former national security adviser John Bolton’s assertion that President Donald Trump withheld aid from Ukraine to pressure that country into announcing an investigation of Joe Biden.
“If John Bolton says that in the book, I believe John Bolton,” Kelly told the crowd at a lecture series in Sarasota, Florida, on Monday.
Bolton’s accusation has become the latest twist in the Senate impeachment trial. A draft of his new book, obtained by The New York Times, says that Trump told Bolton last August that he wanted to freeze nearly $400 million in congressionally approved military assistance to Ukraine until the country agreed to investigate the former vice president and current Democratic presidential candidate.
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whoever Kelly may be, he can believe whomever he wishes.
it matters not one whit
Kelly, Bolton, Tillerson, Mattis, etc....all goes to prove an old business adage, namely, “you hire your problems and you fire your problems.” In other words, hiring mistakes come in the front door and out the back.
That said, despite best efforts and all the perplexing employment regulations, everyone running a business makes hiring mistakes from time to time. However, not everyone is adept at fixing (firing) those mistakes.
Trump has demonstrated he gets it.
Once someone “flies their flag,” so to speak, and reveals who they really are, which at worst typically fully occurs within not too many months, that is when it almost always pays to bite the bullet and make the hard decision to keep or dump them. Moreover, it almost never pays to put any effort or hope in trying to change or manage personnel problems, particularly when it comes to upper management. Reality vs fantasy.
“Have to remember Trump was never in politics before. And what this man was up against since he was elected was incredible. He has come along way and I am proud of this man and proud to call him my President.”
Ditto.
Or maybe Trump picked them nothing they’d screw up and he could get rid of them? Trump always plays the long game.
These Never-Trumpers who worked for Trump are a disgrace!
Generals are dancing prancing REMFs. They are picked because they go along get along and can hold their liquor. Real leadership a ability is seen as a threat to the military bureaucracy.
Eh. It’s always that way. Remember how those on the FR who opposed sending troops to Afghanistan were called cowards and traitors? Well guess who got the last laugh, as if there was anything funny about it. How many thousand dead troops for nothing? Absolutely nothing, defending a culture of child molesters and woman beaters and worse. Yet the same neocons are still here more recently defending keeping troops in the pesthole called the ME.
Trust the plan. Lol.
Some people never learn nuffin’.
Kelly was a damned traitor. He and McMaster and Mattis.
Thats pure bullcrap. Trump did indeed have many good people. But when the never Trump crowd in the GOP house and Senate kept dangling impeachment, the CIA and FBI went hard after anyone close to him and arrested a few, and the psycho democrats started attacking people in restaurants...
His pool dried up fast.
Also, every appointment that had to be Seante confirmed was a non-starter if it was not a swamper.
Trump was boxed in by Ryan and Mitchell, by absolute traitors in the CIA and FBI, and by antifa street terrorists going after his people.
Trump has not had the liberty to appoint loyalists, and many of them sensibly decided that it was too dangerous to serve him. The deep state used dozens of tactics to force him to be surrounded by those determined to attenuate everything he tried. Getting rid of Flynn with the help of Pence was move number one.
I believe you are a bag of shit so STFU.
Another traitorous scumbag betraying his oath to defend the Constitution....Rot in Hell A-hole!!
“Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said he believes former national security adviser John Bolton’s assertion that President Donald Trump withheld aid from Ukraine to pressure that country into announcing an investigation of Joe Biden.”
I never trusted this backbiter.
Trump needs to clean house, before more episodes like this occur. There has been a horrible record of disloyalty.
“Getting rid of Flynn with the help of Pence was move number one.”
Who chose Pence as his VP candidate? I believe it was Trump.
Who chose Chris Christie to manage his transition? The transition director should have had an administration vetted and ready to go the minute the election outcome was known. I believe Mr. Trump appointed Chris Christie.
Who appointed Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, Christopher Ray?
If Trump had been ready with candidates to announce the day after election day, he could have forced the GOP Senate to take action. The fact is, he wasn’t ready and that gave the GOP establishment time to force his hand. Not having a cabinet to announce within a week of winning is on Trump and no one else if he was a serious candidate.
It's as if Kelly thinks Bolton is a woman.
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