Former WH Chief Of Staff Says He Warned Trump On Impeachment

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FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly watches as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump’s former chief of staff, Kelly, says he advised the president not to fill the job with someone who wouldn’t be honest with him and provide a check on his impulses because he would end up being impeached. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, says he advised the president not to fill the job with someone who wouldn’t be honest with him and provide a check on his impulses because he would end up being impeached.

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“That was almost 11 months ago, and I have an awful lot of, to say the least, second thoughts about leaving,” Kelly told the Washington Examiner. “It pains me to see what’s going on because I believe if I was still there or someone like me was there, he would not be kind of, all over the place.”

“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 Examiner. Kelly said he does not believe the president would be in his current predicament if he had stayed as chief of staff.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement of her own Saturday: “I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President.”

Trump pushed back on Kelly’s comments in a statement: “John Kelly never said that, he never said anything like that. If he would have said that, I would have thrown him out of the office. He just wants to come back into the action like everybody else does.”

The House is expected to vote on articles of impeachment by Christmas, with a trial to follow in the Senate to determine whether Trump should be removed from office.

The proceedings were sparked by allegations that the president asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival seeking the Democratic nomination and into the 2016 election.


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anonymous
anonymous
4 years ago

He never will be impeached unless the senate has a democratic majority. To all those democratic haters if not for Truman this country would have been involved in unwinnable war with china and the fine republicans would have never recognized Israel and Hitler’s lawyers allen dulles and john foster dulles would have won

Nachum
Nachum
4 years ago

General John Kelly and Trump hardly spoke to each other, in the last few months of Kelly’s tenure, as they had disagreements on just about everything. Stephanie Grisham is a “yes” person, whom General Kelly warned against. Also, she has two arrests on her record for drunk driving.

Jay
Jay
4 years ago

The Democrats were talking impeachment two days after Trump took office.

Phineas
Phineas
4 years ago

I don’t believe Kelly herem

Mad Dog Levine
Mad Dog Levine
4 years ago

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement of her own Saturday: “I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President.” Ms Grisham’s job is secure because she recognized Trump as a genius and as a great President. The Chosen One loves to hear words like that. Perhaps all who departed the administration couldn’t deal with the genius.
Trump is such a genius that he knows that windmills cause cancer and that you can’t watch TV when the wind isn’t blowing. He alone thinks that Colorado shares a border with Mexico and that hacked DNC server, which is on display in the DNC national office, is actually in the Ukraine.

GoldnMedina
GoldnMedina
4 years ago

Decomposing Donald’s failure is epic and historic. He only hss self-interest. Like Crazy Rudy and his Ukraine goniffs.

PaulinSaudi
PaulinSaudi
4 years ago

There seems to be little doubt the President is guilty. Now we must decide if we care.

At this point it appears to be certain the President will be impeached by the House. Probably the Senate will refuse to convict. That is fine with me. I expect very little from the Senate.