Trump Fuming After John Kelly Reportedly Calls Him Uninformed
Source: Vanity Fair
Back in October, two senior Republican officials told the Hives Gabriel Sherman that Chief of Staff John Kelly was miserable in his role at the White House, adding that the retired four-star general was only sticking around to keep the president from doing something truly unhinged. Kelly, of course, pushed back, promising that he had no plans to leave, and Trump himself predicted Kelly would stay in my opinion, for the entire seven remaining years. But much like the recently excommunicated Steve Bannon, Kelly may have thrown his relationship with the president into jeopardy by publicly framing himself as the one person who can keep Donald Trump in check.
This week, both The New York Times and The Washington Post reported that Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who were concerned that Trump would not meet them on a bipartisan immigration compromise, that the president had not been fully informed when he made a campaign promise to build a wall along the Mexican border. Specifically, Rep. Luis V. Gutirrez recalled Kelly as saying that there were statements made about the wall (during the campaign) that were not informed statements. According to Rep. Ral Grijalva, Kelly told the group that he was the one who tempered (Trump) on the issue of the wall, on the issue of DACA.
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Predictably, a source close to the president told Axios that Trump was liable to explode when he saw the interview. Kelly has finally ventured into Steve Bannon territory when it comes to trying to create the perception that hes the great manipulator, saving the country from Trumps ignorance, the source added. Indeed, just a few hours later Trump fired off a series of tweets directly contradicting Kelly. The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it, he wrote, reiterating his plan to force Mexico to pay for it . . . somehow. CNN reported that Trump was fuming.
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