MACS wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/19/john-kelly-broken-hearted-by-dem-reps-attacks-on-trump.html
For those who may have missed it. General Kelly is spot on. The congresswoman should be ashamed of herself.
Even fox news says he said it... "Kelly on Thursday seemed to back up part of Wilson's account..."
The whole thing should never have been politicized. I sort of have a guess how the whole thing came about... here's my guess (this is speculation)
Reporter asks trump about Niger deaths (because it had been 2 weeks with no statement from the president regarding an attack on troops)
Trump mistakenly thinks he's asking about what he will do about the families themselves (the reporter literally only asked why he hasn't said anything), and like a kid who didn't have his homework ready to turn in started going off on a tangent about contacting families, and how he was going to make phone calls and other presidents didn't do that....
Suddenly, that's a news story. Trump calls the families? Did Obama call the families? Did Bush? Suddenly every news reporter is checking on that. And now he's expected to call every family. The reporters and everyone else knows he has to make a phone call to every family.
Meanwhile, his staff is probably sh#tting itself..... Notice what was said. Gen Kelly told Trump what to say based on what was said to him when his son was killed. That means someone was asking what trump should say... they weren't planning this, they were like "quick! What should he say? What did they say when they called you?".... this doesn't suggest a lot of planning.
Sounds like during the phone call he tried to say verbatim what was said to kelly. Whether he successfully said the entire statement or just got distracted after that first phrase and started rambling on a different direction (not uncommon for trump) we will never know unless someone recorded it.
But make no mistake. This whole politicized bs around the soldiers deaths started when trump decided to go off script on what should have been an anticipated question.