Pres. Trump fired back on Twitter, saying Kelly “can’t keep his mouth shut.”
White House chief of staff John Kelly listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, June 21, 2018.
Regarding Trump's controversial July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president, Kelly said it changed longstanding U.S. policy and that Vindman reported it because is was tantamount to hearing"an illegal order." National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump.“[Vindman] did exactly what we teach them to do from cradle to grave,” Kelly continued. “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 also said he didn't believe the press is “the enemy of the people,” and sharply criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin as someone who sits atop “a society in collapse,” yet is intent on restoring “the glory days of the Soviet Union."White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, right, leans in to talk with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
"I thought it was a little disingenuous," she added."It's interesting that he is starting to poke his head out and speak a little bit more, just like [former national security adviser]Bolton came to Kelly's defense Thursday afternoon on Twitter, calling his former colleague"an honorable man." “If John Bolton says that in the book, I believe John Bolton,” Kelly said late January. “Every single time I was with him ... he always gave the president the unvarnished truth” he added.Trump attacked Kelly last October, after he said he had warned the president that hiring a “yes man” to replace him would lead to impeachment.
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