‘I feel bad that I left’: John Kelly warned Trump he would be impeached
WELL, DUH! GENERAL; YA THINK THERE WAS ANY CONSERVATIVE WHO DIDN’T THINK THAT CRAZED DEMOCRATS WOULD ATTEMPT TO IMPEACH TRUMP? AND BRILLIANT PROGNOSTICATION GIVEN THAT THEY ANNOUNCED IT BEFORE HE WAS INAUGURATED.
I question how “bad” Kelly felt that he left; Our opinion is that Kelly was GOP Establishment all the way; to have avoided the impeachment torment, Trump would have had to do a “Bush” as in:
- Illegal immigration, — go soft, allow huge loopholes;
- Remain in Paris ‘climate change’ accord;
- Leave Iran “agreement” intact;
- Obama’s TransPacificPartnership (TPP) trade agreement – don’t upset the apple cart
On everyone of those and more Trump bucked Beltway to New York wisdom including that of Pentagon creatures. dlh
From the David Drucker article at the Washington Examiner*
SEA ISLAND, Georgia — John Kelly warned President Trump that hiring a “yes man” to succeed him as White House chief of staff would lead to impeachment and, in hindsight, regrets his decision to resign.
House Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry into Trump less than a year after Kelly departed the administration. The retired, four-star Marine general suggested the blame lies squarely with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and other advisers who are unable, or unwilling, to keep the president out of trouble.
Kelly, 69, said he privately cautioned Trump during his final days on the job that he would be impeached if he did not tap a chief of staff with the fortitude to check the president’s bad impulses. Kelly said he does not believe the president would be in this predicament had he stayed.
“I said, whatever you do — and we were still in the process of trying to find someone to take my place — I said whatever you do, don’t hire a ‘yes man,’ someone who won’t tell you the truth — don’t do that. Because if you do, I believe you will be impeached,” Kelly recalled in an interview at the Sea Island Summit, a political conference hosted by the Washington Examiner.
*Cartoon not part of WE article
