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Post by nuevowavo on Oct 23, 2024 13:02:54 GMT -5
As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.
Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff.
With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents — agreed to three on-the-record, recorded discussions with a reporter for The New York Times about the former president, providing some of his most wide-ranging comments yet about Mr. Trump’s fitness and character.
Mr. Kelly was homeland security secretary under Mr. Trump before moving to the White House in July 2017. He worked to carry out Mr. Trump’s agenda for nearly a year and a half. It was a tumultuous period in which he drew internal criticism over his own performance and grew disenchanted and distressed by conduct on the part of the president that he considered at times to be inappropriate and reflecting no understanding of the Constitution.
In the interviews, Mr. Kelly expanded on his previously expressed concerns and stressed that voters, in his view, should consider fitness and character when selecting a president, even more than a candidate’s stances on the issues.
“In many cases, I would agree with some of his policies,” he said, stressing that as a former military officer he was not endorsing any candidate. “But again, it’s a very dangerous thing to have the wrong person elected to high office.”
He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law.
He discussed and confirmed previous reports that Mr. Trump had made admiring statements about Hitler, had expressed contempt for disabled veterans and had characterized those who died on the battlefield for the United States as “losers” and “suckers” — comments first reported in 2020 by The Atlantic....
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Post by biminitwisted on Oct 23, 2024 13:14:21 GMT -5
But we're told the Hitler thing is baked in?
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Post by luapnor on Oct 23, 2024 13:56:23 GMT -5
I guess Trump is going to win....
Zelensky told journalists in Kiev this week that both sides should mutually agree on halting all aerial attacks on energy targets and cargo ships, and that this could pave the way for negotiations to end the war.
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Post by biminitwisted on Oct 23, 2024 15:42:12 GMT -5
The Sad, Pathetic Spectacle of John Kelly’s CriticsTrump’s sycophants want us to trust them over our own eyes and ears.
WHEN GEN. JOHN KELLY WENT PUBLIC about Trump’s praise for Hitler and his fears about a dictatorial second Trump term, he joined a growing list of former Trump officials ringing the alarm.
He also sparked what has become a pathetic if not predictable pattern, in which a chorus of Trump sycophants obediently rush forward to explain away the alarming revelation and impugn the witness’s credibility.
Here’s reliable Trump lickspittle Scott Jennings telling us that Kelly probably made the whole thing up and that the real Hitlers are on college campuses. Trump apologist Ryan James Girdusky said, “I, honest to God, like most Americans, do not care about Gen. Kelly’s farewell tour.”
Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends said of Trump’s praise for Nazi generals: “I can absolutely see him go, ‘It'd be great to have German generals that actually do what we ask them to do,’ maybe not fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals who were Nazis, or whatever.” (Not a parody.)
Trump confidante Mike Davis called Kelly “Gen. Christine Blasey Ford”—get it? Chris Sununu is unbothered: “We’ve heard a lot of extreme things from Donald Trump. With a guy like that, it’s kinda baked into the vote.” Sen. Bill Hagerty, on CNN, downplayed the entire revelation as a matter of personal dispute between two men. Kelly and Trump, he said, “were not a good fit.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-sad-pathetic-spectacle-of-john
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Post by biminitwisted on Oct 23, 2024 15:52:30 GMT -5
"The man who implemented the Trump Muslim Ban that was overturned by the courts and was subsequently promoted by Trump is a RINO resistance lib who can't be trusted" is what they are going with.
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Post by deepdropper on Oct 23, 2024 15:53:53 GMT -5
Coffee boy by the evening news.
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Post by wynnv on Oct 23, 2024 16:02:20 GMT -5
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Post by nikonoclast on Oct 23, 2024 16:22:19 GMT -5
I just watched an interview with John Bolton on the subject of Gen. Kelly, and his recent remarks about Trump.
He believes general Kelly.
He trusts his judgement, his veracity, and his resolute defense of American democracy.
Bolton is one of the most virulent Right Wingers to ever serve in the American government!
But, even he is frightened about what a 2nd Trump presidency would bring down on the country.
I have believed, for decades, that Bolton was a loathsome war-monger.
This time, he's stepped up, and done what his conscience demanded.
Good for him.
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Post by biminitwisted on Oct 23, 2024 16:28:53 GMT -5
John Kelly isn’t alone. 40 out of Trump’s 44 cabinet members said similar stuff.  |
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Post by resinhead on Oct 23, 2024 16:34:05 GMT -5
This you?
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Post by deepdropper on Oct 23, 2024 16:35:33 GMT -5
"I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people”
Looks like he was right, these people are serious.
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Post by resinhead on Oct 23, 2024 16:43:21 GMT -5
You guys need a new one. Regurgitating old fake news isn't working.
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Post by OhMy on Oct 23, 2024 16:51:22 GMT -5
We still have a week and a half to go.
I am sure more of these stories will all come out and the MSM will treat each of them like the man landed on the moon.
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Post by resinhead on Oct 23, 2024 16:53:21 GMT -5
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Post by luapnor on Oct 23, 2024 17:02:00 GMT -5
The smell of desperation....
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Post by Reptile Dysfunction on Oct 23, 2024 20:53:34 GMT -5
The smell of desperation.... It's huge and it's fun, good times! |
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Post by Reptile Dysfunction on Oct 23, 2024 20:56:34 GMT -5
As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.
Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff.
With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents — agreed to three on-the-record, recorded discussions with a reporter for The New York Times about the former president, providing some of his most wide-ranging comments yet about Mr. Trump’s fitness and character.
Mr. Kelly was homeland security secretary under Mr. Trump before moving to the White House in July 2017. He worked to carry out Mr. Trump’s agenda for nearly a year and a half. It was a tumultuous period in which he drew internal criticism over his own performance and grew disenchanted and distressed by conduct on the part of the president that he considered at times to be inappropriate and reflecting no understanding of the Constitution.
In the interviews, Mr. Kelly expanded on his previously expressed concerns and stressed that voters, in his view, should consider fitness and character when selecting a president, even more than a candidate’s stances on the issues.
“In many cases, I would agree with some of his policies,” he said, stressing that as a former military officer he was not endorsing any candidate. “But again, it’s a very dangerous thing to have the wrong person elected to high office.”
He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law.
He discussed and confirmed previous reports that Mr. Trump had made admiring statements about Hitler, had expressed contempt for disabled veterans and had characterized those who died on the battlefield for the United States as “losers” and “suckers” — comments first reported in 2020 by The Atlantic....
If only Trump would have had four years in the White House, perhaps we'd have a better idea of how he would govern. OH, WAIT!! |
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Post by resinhead on Oct 23, 2024 21:02:39 GMT -5
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Post by Reptile Dysfunction on Oct 23, 2024 21:13:56 GMT -5
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Post by tonyroma on Oct 23, 2024 21:16:34 GMT -5
Speaking of fat pigs, no red hat?
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Post by deepdropper on Oct 23, 2024 21:16:58 GMT -5
Wait aren't male Trump Voters "Fat Pigs"??
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Post by whitebacon on Oct 23, 2024 21:36:29 GMT -5
Wait aren't male Trump Voters "Fat Pigs"?? Coming on here and hurling childish insults, acting like a professional douchebag.....refusing to answer a legitimate question? Don't just think you can steal bikinis playbook. He's gonna want a reach around...... |
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Post by deepdropper on Oct 23, 2024 22:06:58 GMT -5
WTF are you blathering about? Do you understand those words are in quotation marks, not made by me? But what Trumps describes all his male supporters? That makes Trump the childish one and the professional douchebag, lol!!!!!
Ho Lee Phuck what legitimate question have you asked? Besides your fascination with male reach arounds? Dude loosen the ankle bracelet.
I have a question, how many time does BT walk you around the block? you seem to wag your tail by the door every instance he does a post.
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Post by luapnor on Oct 23, 2024 22:14:20 GMT -5
Wait aren't male Trump Voters "Fat Pigs"?? Its over sparkles. That fat pig is singing. |
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Post by biminitwisted on Oct 23, 2024 22:26:50 GMT -5
Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg
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2h
It’s one thing for some leftist group to call you a fascist. Quite another when it’s a fellow Republican. And absolutely astonishing when it’s your own chief of staff.
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Post by deepdropper on Oct 23, 2024 22:33:21 GMT -5
LOL, Kremlin Karen and his predictions again.
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Post by biminitwisted on Oct 23, 2024 22:45:47 GMT -5
What's the optimal amount of good things a presidential candidate should have to say about Adolf Hitler?
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Post by whitebacon on Oct 23, 2024 23:29:01 GMT -5
What's the optimal amount of good things a presidential candidate should have to say about Adolf Hitler? How many head jobs should the Ugandan giant give in the closing days? Good news is she can do porn after she drains a few more tools. |
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Post by deepdropper on Oct 23, 2024 23:34:53 GMT -5
“Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler" Trump
Does demented Don now think Kamala is his running mate now? Cuz she never called him that But Couch Potato Vance did.
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Post by whitebacon on Oct 23, 2024 23:39:47 GMT -5
“Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler" Trump Does demented Don now think Kamala is his running mate now? Cuz she never called him that But Couch Potato Vance did. You just got busted bikini. Two logins? Identical grammar. Identical use of italics. Identical times of forum use, including right now? My guess is Cad won't do anything about it, you guys vote together. |
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