{"id":2361383,"date":"2024-10-30T05:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kelly-and-co-have-some-serious-credibility-issues\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T05:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T09:37:48","slug":"john-kelly-and-co-have-some-serious-credibility-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kelly-and-co-have-some-serious-credibility-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kelly And Co. Have Some Serious Credibility Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-kelly-and-co-have-some-serious-credibility-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2361383&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u200d discusses \u2063former White House Chief \u2064of\u200b Staff\u2063 John Kelly&#8217;s renewed claims about\u2062 Donald Trump&#8217;s supposed disrespect \u2063for \u200cthe military as part of a campaign to hinder Trump&#8217;s \u2063potential \u2064return\u200d to the presidency. These claims revive similar \u200ballegations from a \u200d2020\u200d article in The Atlantic, which accused \u2062Trump of\u200d dismissing fallen American\u200c soldiers as &#8220;losers&#8221; and &#8220;suckers.&#8221; Fact-checks\u2063 from multiple officials, including Trump\u2019s former National Security\u2064 Advisor John Bolton, disputed these claims, arguing that Trump\u2019s absence from a cemetery \u2064visit\u2062 during a \u200c2018 trip to France was due \u2062to weather, not disdain for\u200c veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the\u2063 previous debunking, Kelly has now confirmed\u2064 some of these allegations and is featured in another\u200c critical piece by The\u2063 Atlantic that asserts Trump expressed admiration for Hitler&#8217;s generals. Kelly also alleges that Trump made derogatory comments about \u200da soldier who \u200ddied at Fort \u2064Hood, a \u2062statement again refuted by others \u200cin Trump\u2019s\u2062 administration, including the deceased\u200b soldier&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of Kelly point out \u200bthat his credibility is questionable given his previous role\u200c in undermining Trump&#8217;s policies, including on matters regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-faces-backlash-after-crushing-border-wall-developments\/\" title=\"Biden faces backlash after crushing border wall developments\">southern border wall<\/a> \u2063and alleged\u2064 election fraud investigations. Others who refute Kelly&#8217;s claims include several former administration members who label him as disgruntled and\u2064 accuse him of being\u200b disloyal during his tenure. The piece highlights the\u2063 ongoing tensions\u200b between former Trump officials\u2063 and \u200cthe narrative crafted by media outlets like\u200c The Atlantic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fired White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is once again peddling outlandish claims about Donald Trump&rsquo;s supposed disdain for the military in a last-ditch attempt to thwart the former president&rsquo;s return as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-bidens-doj-the-rule-of-law-in-america-has-become-a-farce\/\" title=\"Under Biden\u2019s DOJ, The Rule Of Law In America Has Become A Farce\">duly elected commander-<\/a>in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, The Atlantic published another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2024\/10\/trump-military-generals-hitler\/680327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hit piece<\/a> on the Republican presidential nominee strikingly similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/09\/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers\/615997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smear<\/a> run by the magazine four years ago, which accused then-President Trump of denigrating fallen veterans as &ldquo;suckers&rdquo; and &ldquo;losers.&rdquo; According to Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who relied entirely on anonymous sources for the election-year hit in 2020, Trump had refused to visit the graves of American World War I soldiers at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, during a 2018 trip to France out of animosity for the dead veterans.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why should I go to that cemetery? It&rsquo;s filled with losers,&rdquo; Goldberg claimed Trump said. <\/p>\n<p>The anonymously sourced story, however, was immediately debunked by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nick_ayers\/status\/1303307427773726720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than a dozen<\/a> officials who went on record to dispute The Atlantic&rsquo;s attempted character assassination of a president known for his embrace of the U.S. military. Even his former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who traveled with the president to France in 2018 before becoming one of Trump&rsquo;s chief antagonists in the media, publicly declared Goldberg&rsquo;s claims false four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The main issue was whether or not weather conditions permitted the president to go out to the Aisne-Marne cemetery,&rdquo; Bolton <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/08\/during-fox-news-appearance-john-bolton-says-jennifer-griffin-is-just-flatly-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> on Fox News, with inclement weather leading officials to cancel the presidential visit over safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>While nearly every White House official involved with the trip denied The Atlantic&rsquo;s claims about Trump&rsquo;s reason to refrain from visiting the overseas cemetery, John Kelly, who was likely one of the paper&rsquo;s four anonymous sources for the original article, went on to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirm<\/a>&rdquo; the story on record three years later. Now Kelly is being cited in The Atlantic&rsquo;s latest election-year hit on the former president, which attacks him for supposedly admiring the generals of Adolf Hitler<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange,&rdquo; Goldberg reported. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He told me that when Trump raised the subject of &ldquo;German generals,&rdquo; Kelly responded by asking, &ldquo;&lsquo;Do you mean Bismarck&rsquo;s generals?&rsquo;&rdquo; He went on: &ldquo;I mean, I knew he didn&rsquo;t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, &lsquo;Do you mean the kaiser&rsquo;s generals? Surely you can&rsquo;t mean Hitler&rsquo;s generals? And he said, &lsquo;Yeah, yeah, Hitler&rsquo;s generals.&rsquo; I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler.&rdquo; Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Goldberg also alleged that Trump disparaged a soldier murdered at Fort Hood, Texas, following an Oval Office visit with the victim&rsquo;s family. After Trump pledged to cover the funeral costs beyond the military&rsquo;s initial benefits, Goldbgerg wrote that the president complained about the price.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f-cking Mexican!&rdquo; Trump is accused of telling then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a dozen sources have gone on the record again to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/here-are-all-the-people-on-record-debunking-the-atlantics-latest-trump-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refute<\/a> Goldberg&rsquo;s latest hit, including Meadows and myriad other administration staff. The family of the deceased soldier whose death Democrats politicized in order to call Trump a racist also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/22\/sister-of-deceased-soldier-blasts-the-atlantic-for-latest-anti-trump-fabrications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blasted<\/a> the magazine&rsquo;s reporting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wow. I don&rsquo;t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister&rsquo;s death for politics &mdash; hurtful &amp; disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members,&rdquo; Mayra Guill&eacute;n, the fallen soldier&rsquo;s sister, wrote in an online post. &ldquo;President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family &amp; Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Others who have publicly disputed Goldberg&rsquo;s latest reporting include the Guill&eacute;n family&rsquo;s attorney, Meadows spokesman Ben Williamson, Trump spokesman Alex Pfeiffer, former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel, former White House deputy assistant Theo Wold, former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-vp-pence-chief-of-staff-biden-canceling-student-loan-debt-an-incredibly-asinine-policy\/\" title=\"Former VP Pence Chief Of Staff: Biden Canceling Student Loan Debt \u2018An Incredibly Asinine Policy\u2019\">vice presidential chief<\/a> of staff Nick Ayers, and former vice presidential national security adviser Keith Kellogg.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few people who say they believe Kelly, but they share similar credibility problems with the disgruntled ex-chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Army Reserve Col. Kevin Carroll, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/23\/john-kelly-nyt-interview-donald-trump\/75805348007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">identified<\/a> by USA Today as a former senior adviser to Kelly, told reporters during a campaign call for Vice President Kamala Harris that Kelly&rsquo;s activism was &ldquo;no small step&rdquo; for the former senior Trump official. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s seen Donald Trump up close in a way that very few other Americans have,&rdquo; Carroll is reported as saying. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s warning us that a second Trump term would be dangerous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A former Trump official familiar with Carroll&rsquo;s role in the administration, however, characterized him in an interview with The Federalist as a &ldquo;disgruntled, unprofessional attorney.&rdquo; More importantly, the official said, &ldquo;he wasn&rsquo;t really a close confidante of General Kelly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Exaggeration of White House influence is a theme among former Trump officials who&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">ve exploited legacy media&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s hostility toward the former president. In 2018, for example, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/29\/new-york-times-miles-taylor-op-ed-shows-everything-wrong-with-anonymous-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> an op-ed from an anonymous author identified as a &ldquo;senior administration official&rdquo; who described deep state efforts to undermine the president&rsquo;s agenda from within the upper echelons of the federal government. The author was later unmasked as a low-level bureaucrat within the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly himself is faced with charges of deceiving President Trump when he worked to actively undermine the administration as White House chief of staff. Last week, Mark Paoletta, an attorney and veteran of the Trump administration who worked in the Office of Management and Budget, detailed Kelly&rsquo;s dynamic on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarkPaoletta\/status\/1849609777225011262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a>. In 2018, for example, Kelly prevented White House officials from briefing Trump on the available funds to build the southern border wall. Kelly would later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/03\/john-kelly-unloads-working-for-trump-was-awful-his-border-wall-is-stupid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">call<\/a> the wall, which was a hallmark promise of Trump&rsquo;s 2016 campaign, a &ldquo;waste of money&rdquo; during an interview at Duke University a year later.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;John Kelly was insubordinate and duplicitous by refusing to provide the President with lawful options to implement the President&rsquo;s policies,&rdquo; Paoletta wrote last week. <\/p>\n<p>In another incident, Paoletta said Kelly shut down a recommendation directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate election fraud. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At the time, I was the Counsel to VP Pence, who was the co-chair of the commission, and I had developed a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-worked-with-john-kelly-and-dont-believe-a-word-he-says\/\" title=\"I Worked With John Kelly And Don&#039;t Believe A Word He Says\">previous presidential directives<\/a> to DOJ to investigate a specific matter so that when making this recommendation I could show it was well supported by history and tradition,&rdquo; Paoletta said. &ldquo;In a meeting with Kelly and others, I made this recommendation and shared the list of examples of Presidents directing DOJ to engage on specific matters. Kelly said he would never show this list to the President because it would be terrible if President Trump knew he could do this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;John Kelly thought he knew better than President Trump and was opposed to many of his policies,&rdquo; Paoletta added. &ldquo;As Chief of Staff, Kelly dishonestly tried to thwart President Trump&rsquo;s policies, and on the wall funding he was totally fine with not doing everything possible to stop illegal aliens flooding into our country and murdering innocent Americans, all in order to protect the bloated bureaucracy of his DOD.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I worked in the White House with John Kelly, and I don&rsquo;t believe a word he says.  He was a terrible chief of staff who dishonestly kept information from the President to pursue his own agenda, an unelected former military official substituting his judgment for the duly elected&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x1kk27vie6\">https:\/\/t.co\/x1kk27vie6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkPaoletta\/status\/1849609777225011262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On CNN last weekend, Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/jd-vance-says-trump-clashed-former-officials-refusing-engage-ridiculous-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Kelly and his followers among Trump&rsquo;s deep state opposition were just neocons who pushed for &ldquo;ridiculous wars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump wouldn&rsquo;t listen to the leadership of the military when they wanted him to start ridiculous conflicts,&rdquo; Vance said Sunday. &ldquo;A lot of former members of the Pentagon bureaucracy, a lot of neoconservatives, they have a fundamental difference with Donald Trump on the question of peace and war.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kelly is again making outrageous claims about Trump\u2019s alleged military disdain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2361384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/John-Kelly-e1730231212940.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[43989,38568,5191,5894,16001],"class_list":["post-2361383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-credibility-issues","tag-john-kelly","tag-leadership","tag-politics","tag-reputation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/John-Kelly-e1730231212940.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}