WASHINGTON DC (Aftenposten): In Donald Trump’s first term as president, he hired ex-generals in droves. He later regretted it.
General John Kelly was President Donald Trump’s chief of staff for a year and a half. Here the two are visiting the marine corps’ installation in the capital in autumn 2018. Photo: Jonathan Ernst, Reuters/NTB
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Published: 05/10/2023 22:38
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John Kelly, former chief of staff to President Donald Trump and a former general, confirms reports that Trump has spoken disparagingly of America’s war heroes and veterans. Kelly says Trump, among other things, looks down on soldiers who are prisoners of war, wounded and torture victims, and does not want to be seen with soldiers with amputated body parts. Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Milley are also embroiled in a dispute. Trump has expressed that Milley’s conversations with Chinese army leadership, in which he reassured them that the United States would not attack, could merit the death penalty. Kelly criticizes Trump’s statement.
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“God help us,” concludes John Kelly in a written statement to CNN. For a year and a half he was chief of staff in the White House. He was then Donald Trump’s top adviser and gatekeeper to the Oval Office.
His former boss is involved in a heated dispute over and with the US’s retired defense chief. Kelly, a former general in the United States Marine Corps, was asked this week for comment. His scathing criticism has attracted attention.
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