Of course he did.
Courtesy of CNN:
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Wednesday that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, was right to raise concerns about Trump’s July call to Ukraine’s president, The Atlantic reported.
Kelly also believes that Vindman, who was fired from White House last week, told the truth during testimony before House investigators last fall.
“Having seen something ‘questionable (in the call),’ Vindman properly notified his superiors,” Kelly said at an event at Drew University, according to the magazine. “When subpoenaed by Congress in the House impeachment hearings, Vindman complied and told the truth.”
“He did exactly what we teach them to do from cradle to grave,” he said, according to the magazine. “He went and told his boss what he just heard.”
Kelly said that when Vindman heard Trump tell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he wanted the country to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, the ask was for the aide “tantamount to hearing ‘an illegal order,'” The Atlantic reported. Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
“We teach them, ‘Don’t follow an illegal order. And if you’re ever given one, you’ll raise it to whoever gives it to you that this is an illegal order, and then tell your boss,'” Kelly said, according to the magazine.
Being a former Marine Corps general John Kelly would know all about the rules dictating responses to illegal orders.
And having worked in the Trump White House he has likely seen a few of his own.
Of course Trump could not let this go without comment.
….which he actually has a military and legal obligation to do. His incredible wife, Karen, who I have a lot of respect for, once pulled me aside & said strongly that “John respects you greatly. When we are no longer here, he will only speak well of you.” Wrong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2020
Does that sound like a threat to anyone else?
John Kelly has recently been a real pain in Trump’s orange tinted derrriere.
Not only did he come out and say that he beleived everything that former national security adviser John Bolton was saying, but it was also revealed that he warned Trump that if he fired him as his chief of staff that he would be impeached.
And lo and behold, he was.
Trump needed grownups like John Kelly to protect him from his own stupidity, and now that all of them are gone his paranoia is running the show.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-white-house-chief-staff-164143306.html
“The media, in my view — and I feel very strongly about this — is not the enemy of the people.”
“We need a free media. That said, you have to be careful about what you are watching and reading, because the media has taken sides. So if you only watch Fox News, because it’s reinforcing what you believe, you are not an informed citizen.”
Sorry John but your ship sailed out a long time ago. The shit that you said and did during your tenure is indefensible. The genie simply will not go back in the bottle so trying to save a legacy is all you have and it is pretty pathetic.
You can just kiss my Marine Corps ass.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-bolton-john-kelly-praise_n_5e462a3cc5b64d860fc85b86
“Former national security adviser John Bolton tried praising former White House chief of staff John Kelly for going public with his criticism of President Donald Trump.
But given Bolton’s own reluctance to speak out ― apparently to save his revelations for a book ― it didn’t go over very well.”
Bolton is being ripped a new one on Twitter.
Isn’t it interesting that these supposedly strong, courageous MEN only speak out after they have resigned, been fired or write a book.
This wasn’t the first time or the last that trump has broken the law, but it was a WOMAN, Nancy Pelosi, that actually DID something to try and stop dictator trump.
Maybe because women know how to deal with a toddler’s temper tantrums.
You’ll notice how Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer couldn’t wait to be welcomed back into the fold on any level.
Lol. Oh god. The woman thing. Jesus.
And no, Nancy was was actually smart enough NOT to want to impeach, but because she is such a WEAK speaker and woman, she let herself get dragged down into it by fluff boys Nadler and Schiff. If she had any smarts ans strength left she would get them kicked off the island before they totally destroy her career.
Career government guys like Kelly don’t understand hard work and the truth from the private side always shine brighter.
Kelly is butthurt that the country and the Trump admin are humming along just fine without him….
basically exposing what his worth really was. Not much. Just another DC persona, like most.
Does anyone wonder what Alyssa “I’m no one since being on Who’s The Boss” Milano thinks about this?
Nope. Not a soul.
Nearing 50, the “actress” loved the adrenalin rush she felt pulsing through her thumbs as she tweeted in rapid fire like a strung out junkie about Me Too This, Me Too That.
Alyssa – on top of the world staring dazedly in her phone.