Posted on 10/20/2017 1:52:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clintons former campaign spokesman called retired Gen. John Kelly odious on Thursday after the White House chief of staff and Gold Star father spoke about President Trumps decision to call the families of four soldiers killed in Niger earlier this month.
Dont be distracted by the uniform, Brian Fallon, a CNN contributor and past communications director for Clintons campaign, wrote on Twitter following Kellys remarks.
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Kelly isnt just an enabler of Trump. Hes a believer in him. That makes him as odious as the rest, wrote Fallon, who is also an adviser to the Democratic political action committee, Priorities PAC.
Fallon was upset with a briefing that Kelly gave to reporters on President Trumps phone calls to the families of the four fallen soldiers.
The calls became controversial after Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson told a reporter that Trump made what she said were insensitive remarks during his conversation with the pregnant widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson.
Wilson, who was listening in on the call, said that Trump told the widow that Johnson knew what he signed up for but when it happens, it hurts anyway.
During his remarks on Thursday, Kelly, whose son 1st Lt. Robert Michael Kelly was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, said that he was stunned by Wilsons remarks to the media.
I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing, Kelly said.
Kelly also gave an emotional description of the process by which soldiers killed in combat are returned back to the U.S.
Describing his conversations with Trump about contacting grieving families, Kelly said Thursday that he initially advised Trump against calling them.
If you elect to call a family like this it is about the most difficult thing you can imagine. Theres no perfect way to make that phone call, said Kelly, a retired Marine general.
But Kelly defended Trumps decision to make the calls.
[Trump] called four people the other day and expressed his condolences in the best way he could and he said to me, What do I say?'
Their brains are rotted, along with their souls, but the dream lives on.
Why was a Congresswoman listening in on a condolence call? Is there anything lower than that?
Fallon is a FOUL PUNK.
That’s all Hillary surrounds herself with, a cabal of pasty faced, obnoxious, girly-men.
Just another way to call someone deplorable. I’d where it as a badge of honor.
I feel safe in venturing that the spokesman has never served in the military. When I enlisted to become a tanker back during the last days of the draft I knew that it could cost me my life. General Kelly spoke the truth that all of us knew. And it is also why, after becoming a historian for the Army, I volunteered to help train the Military History Detachments that were deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. I wanted to know who was going in harms way and collecting soldier interviews and copies of unit documents and sending them back to me for preservation as part of the Army’s history and also so that they would know that a fellow, though now retired, solder would make sure their efforts were documented and preserved for posterity.
Kelly is a Gold Star Parent himself. And Democrats have no problem criticizing him. But remember when criticizing Khizr Kahn, the Gold Star Parent who spoke at the DNC convention, was deemed a sacrilege by every mainstream media outlet and commentator? OH I FORGOT Democrats have rules for themselves which don’t apply to everyone else.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chris-christie-donald-trump-khan_us_57a0e478e4b0693164c2e9cf
The projection by LIB idiots is continous and predictable. What lunatics and nitwits.
Hillary has a campaign spokesman?
What is she campaigning for? Cadaver-in-chief?
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