Quote (IceMage @ 24 Oct 2024 03:08)
I was more focused on the comments from Trump that John Kelly goes on the record about. That's what the news is focusing on. I suppose focusing on one claim of the article is a way to ignore his longest serving chief of staff making several damning accusations against the man he served for.
Truth be told, I didn't feel like wasting my time continuing with this article after it opened with an inflammatory and bold-faced lie. By that point, it was clear that this article was a partisan hit piece.
Quote (IceMage @ 24 Oct 2024 03:34)
I want to be clear here. You believe John Kelly is making false claims publicly about Donald Trump?
John Kelly was a 4 star general, his son died fighting overseas, he served as the DHS secretary overseeing Trump's immigration regime which was incredibly restrictive, and then served as Chief of Staff. And you think he's just making stuff up?
Several high-ranking staffers from the Trump admin have come out against Kelly's claims. Fine, you might discount Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows who was always a staunch Trump ally. But how about Nick Ayers, who was Pence's chief of staff and has no reason to have warm feeling or any loyalty to Trump after the way Trump threw his boss to the wolves?
https://x.com/nick_ayers/status/1849156855106273331Same for general Keith Kellogg:
https://x.com/generalkellogg/status/1849144100739744246As to why Kelly and Bolton might be lying right now to stop the reelection of Donald Trump: they are beholden to the military-industrial complex. After they tried - unsuccessfully - to steer Trump in an interventionist, belligerent direction during his first term, they now have good reason to fear that he might truly gut the MIC or undermine its interests during his second term.
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Another interesting question is why incumbent Democratic senators like Bob Casey, Tammy Baldwin and Elissa Slotkin have recently launched campaign ads in which they tout the instances in which they helped Trump pass bills? Similarly, Democrats have strategically boosted countless stop-the-steal and hardcore MAGA candidates during GOP primaries for the 2022 midterm cycle, to great effect, winning most of the general elections against these weak candidates.
If Trump truly was the second coming of Hitler and if MAGA truly was a mortal threat to American democracy, Democratic senators wouldn't praise their cooperation with Trump and the DNC wouldn't boost MAGA candidates ahead of establishment conservatives.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 24 2024 12:24am