Opinion: High time to interview Kelly and many other former Trump officials
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly listens as President Trump and Vice President Pence meet with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer at the White House on Dec. 11, 2018. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 7 at 2:00 PM The New York Times reports on the appearance at Duke University by former White House chief of staff John Kelly. “Mr.
Of people crossing the border who are apprehended, Mr. Kelly contradicted the president. “They’re overwhelmingly not criminals — they’re people coming up here for economic” purposes. Mr. Trump has regularly portrayed immigrants crossing at the southern border as dangerous lawbreakers. Kelly, it would seem, should be called as an expert witness in oversight hearings on the president’s immigration policies, as well as on hearings examining Trump’s multi-faceted corruption, obstruction, abuse of power and other scandals.Likewise, the House Foreign Affairs Committee and/or Intelligence Committee should call Kelly up to ask:
Trump illustrates again and again that he operates in a fact-free environment. Former officials, not just Kelly, but also H.R. McMaster, Jim Mattis and Rex Tillerson, have an obligation to explain how this White House operates, give their expert opinion as to the ramifications of Trump’s government-by-ignorance and let the American people assess just how preposterous is the author of the anonymous New York Times op-ed in claiming last year that aides are protecting us from Trump.
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