John Kelly, the oldest and the longest serving chief of staff personally believed that the Trump is going to be a totalitarian. The words released from his mouth become a topic of discussion and fueled debates among the population, what would be the main reason behind the statement of Kelly?
Let’s highlight the noteworthy factors beyond the statement.
Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who served as his longest-tenured chief of staff. With the election looming, the deeply troubled Mr. Kelly agreed to three on-the-record interviews with The New York Times, providing some of his most expansive comments yet on Mr. Trump’s fitness and character.
As homeland security secretary before moving to the White House in 2017, Mr. Kelly worked to enact the president’s agenda for nearly a year and a half. It was a tumultuous period marked by internal criticism of his own performance, as well as growing disenchantment and distress over the president’s conduct, which he considered at times inappropriate and devoid of constitutional understanding.
In the interviews, Mr. Kelly expanded on his previous concerns, stressing that voters should prioritize a candidate’s fitness and character over their policy positions when selecting a president.
“In many cases, I would agree with some of his policies,” he said, stressing that as a former military officer he was not endorsing any candidate. “But again, it’s a very dangerous thing to have the wrong person elected to high office.”
The expert witness stated that, in his assessment, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist. He further warned that Trump would govern like a dictator if allowed, demonstrating a fundamental lack of understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law.
The witness also discussed and confirmed previous reports of Trump making admiring statements about Hitler, expressing contempt for disabled veterans, and characterizing U.S. soldiers who died in battle as “losers” and “suckers” – comments first reported by The Atlantic in 2020.
Kelly Said That Based On His Experience, Trump Is Simply A Definition of “fascist.”
In response to a question about whether he thought Mr. Trump was a fascist, Mr. Kelly first read aloud a definition of fascism that he had found online.
“Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he said.
Mr. Kelly said that definition accurately described Mr. Trump.
“So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America,” Mr. Kelly said.
He added: “Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”
Kelly Also Added- Trump Abrade Control On His Power
“He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government,” Mr. Kelly said.
Mr. Trump “never accepted the fact that he wasn’t the most powerful man in the world — and by power, I mean an ability to do anything he wanted, anytime he wanted,” Mr. Kelly said.
“I think he’d love to be just like he was in business — he could tell people to do things and they would do it, and not really bother too much about whether what the legalities were and whatnot,” he said.
Kelly Was Confused By The Recent Comments of Trump I Regards To The Military
When Mr. Kelly left the White House in 2019, he decided he would speak out on the record only if Mr. Trump said something that he found deeply troubling or involved him and was wildly inaccurate. Mr. Trump’s recent comments about using the military against what he called the “enemy within” were so dangerous, he said, that he felt he had to speak out.
“And I think this issue of using the military on — to go after — American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing — even to say it for political purposes to get elected — I think it’s a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it,” Mr. Kelly said.
According to Mr. Kelly, from the start of his presidency, Mr. Trump was repeatedly informed about the reasons he should not use the U.S. military against American citizens, as well as the limits on his authority to do so. However, Mr. Trump continued to insist that he had the power to take such actions, even as he remained in office.
“Originally, conversation would be: Mr. President, that’s outside your authority, or you know that’s a routine use, you really don’t want to do that inside the United States,” he said. “But now that he’s talking about it as ‘I’m gonna do it’ is, again, it’s disturbing.”
Trump Stood alone In Lack of History and Constitution- Kelly
Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump lacked a fundamental understanding of basic American values and what being president is about.
“He’s certainly the only president that has all but rejected what America is all about, and what makes America America, in terms of our Constitution, in terms of our values, the way we look at everything, to include family and government — he’s certainly the only president that I know of, certainly in my lifetime, that was like that,” Mr. Kelly said.
“He just doesn’t understand the values — he pretends, he talks, he knows more about America than anybody, but he doesn’t.”
Trump Wanted Personal Loyalty To Outweigh Loyalty To The Constitution.
According to Mr. Kelly, during his early days as Chief of Staff in 2017, he had to explain to Mr. Trump that top government officials take an oath to the Constitution, which supersedes personal loyalty. Mr. Trump questioned this principle, seemingly unaware that senior aides are expected to prioritize their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law above all else.
“He and I talked about it — it was a new concept for him, I guess is the best way to put it, and I don’t think it’s one he ever totally accepted.”
Mr. Kelly said that personal loyalty “is virtually everything to him.”
Mr. Kelly’s Perspective, Individuals Who lost Mr. Trump’s trust were quickly dismissed
“Certainly, a big surprise for him, again, was if you remember at the beginning of the administration, he would talk about ‘his generals,’” Mr. Kelly said. “I don’t know why he thought that — but then a very big surprise for him was that we were — those of us who were former generals and certainly people still on active duty — that the commitment, the loyalty was to the Constitution, without question, without second thought.”
Mr. Kelly added: “That was a big surprise to him that the generals were not loyal to the boss, in this case him.”
Trump Praised Hitler In A Statement- “Hitler did some good things.”
According to previous reports, Mr. Trump spoke positively of Hitler on multiple occasions. This information was further confirmed by Mr. Kelly.
“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump told him.
According to Mr. Kelly, President Trump was reluctant to visit the cemetery where American soldiers killed in World War I were buried.
“First of all, you should never say that,” Mr. Kelly said that he told Mr. Trump. “But if you knew what Hitler was all about from the beginning to the end, everything he did was in support of his racist, fascist life, you know, the, you know, philosophy, so that nothing he did, you could argue, was good — it was certainly not done for the right reason.”
Typically, Mr. Kelly’s statement would conclude the discussion, but Mr. Trump would sometimes revive the topic.
Kelly Added Trump Looked Upon The One Who Were Disabled On The Battlefield.
“Certainly his not wanting to be seen with amputees — amputees that lost their limbs in defense of this country fighting for every American, him included, to protect them, but didn’t want to be seen with them. That’s an interesting perspective for the commander in chief to have.”
“He would just say: ‘Look, it just doesn’t look good for me.’”
According to reports, Trump referred to U.S. service members who were injured or killed in action as “losers and suckers,” despite denials from the former president and some of his staff.
“The time in Paris was not the only time that he ever said it…” Mr. Kelly reported that Mr. Trump expressed reluctance to visit a cemetery containing the graves of American soldiers who died in World War I.
“Whenever John McCain’s name came up, he’d go through this rant about him being a loser, and all those people were suckers, and why do you people think that people getting killed are heroes? And he’d go through this rant.”
“To me, I could never understand why he was that way — he may be the only American citizen that feels that way about those who gave their lives or served their country,” Mr. Kelly said.
According to Mr. Kelly, Mr. Trump frequently used derogatory terms like ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’ to describe Americans who chose to serve their country.
“And I thought he was asking one of these rhetorical kind of, you know, questions,” Mr. Kelly said. “But I didn’t realize he was serious — he just didn’t see what the point was. As I got to know him, again, this selflessness is something he just didn’t understand. What’s in it for them?”
Seems Like Kelly Has Nothing Good To Say About Trump
Mr. Kelly was asked whether Mr. Trump had any empathy.
“No,” Mr. Kelly said.
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