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Trump Dumps on 'Wacky Congresswoman Wilson'; Kelly Calls Her 'Empty Barrel'; Wilson Plans to...
CNS News ^ | 10/20/17 | Susan Jones

Posted on 10/20/2017 3:35:40 AM PDT by markomalley

Hours after Chief of Staff John Kelly's emotional defense of President Trump in the White House briefing room, Trump sent out the following tweet:

"The Fake News is going crazy with wacky Congresswoman Wilson (D), who was SECRETLY on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content!" Trump wrote Thursday night.

The running feud between Trump and Wilson over Trump's condolence call to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson continues into Friday, as Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) was scheduled to appear on CNN's morning news show to react to Kelly calling her an "empty barrel."

In his remarks to reporters on Thursday, Kelly said, "It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in" on President Trump's conversation with Johnson's widow. "Absolutely stuns me," he repeated. He called Wilson's behavior "selfish." And he also called her an "empty barrel."

That comment came at the end of his remarks as Kelly noted that in April 2015, when he was still on active duty, "I went to the dedication of the new FBI field office in Miami. And it was dedicated to two men who were killed in a firefight in Miami against drug traffickers in 1986 by the name of Grogan and Duke," he said:

 

So, we go down. Jim Comey gave an absolutely brilliant memorial speech to those fallen men and the -- and to all of the men and women of the FBI who serve our country so well and law enforcement so well.

There were family members there. Some of the children that were there were only 3 or 4 years old when their dads were killed on that street in Miami-Dade. Three of the men that survived the fight were there and gave a rendition of how brave those men were and how they gave their lives.

And a congresswoman [Wilson] stood up, and in a long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call, he gave the money, the $20 million, to build the building, and she sat down.

And we were stunned, stunned that she'd done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.

But, you know, none of us went to the press and criticized. None of us stood up and were appalled. We just said, OK, fine.

So, I still hope, as you write your stories, and I appeal to America, that let's not let this maybe last thing that is held sacred in our society, a young man, a young woman going out and giving his or her life for our country, let's try to somehow keep that sacred.

But it eroded a great deal yesterday by the selfish behavior of a member of Congress.

More to come after Rep. Wilson speaks to CNN's "New Day."


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Full headline: Trump Dumps on 'Wacky Congresswoman Wilson'; Kelly Calls Her 'Empty Barrel'; Wilson Plans to Fire Back
1 posted on 10/20/2017 3:35:40 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Maxine Waters in a cowboy hat.


2 posted on 10/20/2017 3:42:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I was defending TRUMP over this BS & talked about TRUMP giving 25K to a Marine jailed in Mexico then I got pushback from Liberals where they said reporters contacted the Marine & he said he never recieved the check! WTF??!!
3 posted on 10/20/2017 3:43:15 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: markomalley

Is this Wilson woman related to Corrine brown perhaps? Their conduct is strikingly similar to one another.


4 posted on 10/20/2017 3:45:16 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: markomalley

ok, Trump and Co.,,,,let it go and move on.

You made your points and nothing is to be gained by keeping this alive any longer.


5 posted on 10/20/2017 3:45:21 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: markomalley

“This Congress’woman’” has serious voting flaws, in talki9ng it up FOR the veterans.

Seems she has made the ongoing list of graves, “for veterans to wet”.


6 posted on 10/20/2017 3:50:09 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Adder
Bulls***. Trump fights. And I'm there with him every step of the way. I want the 'Rats and the Media destroyed.
7 posted on 10/20/2017 3:51:38 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: markomalley

Another dumba$$ from a gerrymandered district, Broward and Miami-Dade.


8 posted on 10/20/2017 3:55:49 AM PDT by ImNotLying (The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
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To: ImNotLying
Another dumba$$ from a gerrymandered district, Broward and Miami-Dade.

Partner, u ain't lying!

9 posted on 10/20/2017 3:59:54 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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To: KavMan
?????? There was a story about it a day or so ago - the family went public that the man got the check and was surprised because he didn't really think it was going to happen.

Unless there's another $25K story out there.

Never listen to libs who use the LSM as "proof" of anything. They start their own rumors so the sheep can have a talking point to tender when the truth just won't do....

10 posted on 10/20/2017 4:00:29 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: TTFlyer

Well said....I’ll stand with Trump.


11 posted on 10/20/2017 4:00:35 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: TTFlyer

Well said....I’ll stand with Trump.


12 posted on 10/20/2017 4:00:36 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: TTFlyer

I do too! No more “Bush tone”crap! I want President Trump to hit the flipping commies! I rage against their oppression and destruction of our culture!


13 posted on 10/20/2017 4:01:42 AM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: markomalley
"Kelly Calls Her 'Empty Barrel"

Does that refer to a firearm, trash receptacle or a syringe?
14 posted on 10/20/2017 4:03:04 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: ImNotLying

I can’t find this in searches but was she one of the Reps who didn’t even live in their district? If not, then who was it who made news by doing that?


15 posted on 10/20/2017 4:04:14 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: trebb

“Never listen to libs who use the LSM as “proof” of anything.”

I have a friend who gets most of his news from the MSM, with no other rebutting sources, and it’s amazing to me the things he hasn’t heard about, and how his take on public events is shaped by what he is exposed to on the MSM. Opinions, rumor, and political ‘hit jobs’ are taken as fact.


16 posted on 10/20/2017 4:04:16 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: markomalley

John Kelly’s speech was not emotional. It was rational and true.


17 posted on 10/20/2017 4:07:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Maxine Waters in a cowboy hat."

I was wondering if she had been a female pimp before she was elected to Congress.

18 posted on 10/20/2017 4:20:11 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Maxine Waters in a cowboy hat.”

You got that right. Wig and all.


19 posted on 10/20/2017 4:22:46 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: Adder
ok, Trump and Co.,,,,let it go and move on.

You made your points and nothing is to be gained by keeping this alive any longer.

Ah yes, another "Bush tone" acolyte.

No. We are sick and tired of taking it. "Nothing to be gained"??? Are you kidding me?

I want the enemies of this country defeated, and the only way to do this is to keep hitting them, and hitting them again, and again, and again, until they STFU.

Trump is a breath of fresh air - he fights back. No more BUSH TONE.

20 posted on 10/20/2017 4:25:26 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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