John Kelly, President Trump’s former chief of staff, is defending former Defense Secretary James Mattis after the president said that he had the “honor” of firing “world’s most overrated general.”
On Wednesday night, Trump denounced Mattis in a pair of tweets after the former Pentagon chief released a scorching statement criticizing the president’s leadership amid nationwide protests against police brutality.
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“The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation,” Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, told The Washington Post on Thursday.
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Kelly said that the president must have “clearly forgotten how it actually happened or is confused.” Kelly has also been critical of the president since leaving his post as chief of staff in 2018.
“The president tweeted a very positive tweet about Jim until he started to see on Fox News their interpretation of his [resignation] letter. Then he got nasty. Jim Mattis is an honorable man,” Kelly told the Post.
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JUST IN: John Kelly defends James Mattis: "The president did not fire him" https://t.co/CD4mpx3Gtj pic.twitter.com/qhFXn3dIvn
— The Hill (@thehill) June 4, 2020
We are living in a very weird time in US civil-military relations, that's for sure.https://t.co/LkPeMCYuTG
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 4, 2020
How many former senior WH officials have to say the president is either a liar or is losing his mental faculties before certain folks come to grips with it? https://t.co/5G12I1AW5k
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) June 4, 2020
Again, a little late, but better than never. https://t.co/vg82g9DnSG
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 4, 2020
Two senior Marine generals say otherwise. I'll take their word for it. https://t.co/bkomnGDayB
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 4, 2020
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