Few top officials spent more time behind closed doors in the White House with President Donald J. Trump than John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff.
With Election Day looming, Mr. Kelly — deeply bothered by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about employing the military against his domestic opponents — agreed to three on-the-record, recorded discussions with a reporter for The New York Times about the former president, providing some of his most wide-ranging comments yet about Mr. Trump’s fitness and character.
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He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law.
Awfully nice of the New York Times to run this story now, after nearly twenty million people have already gone to the polls.
I'm not sure what they believe they are going to accomplish. It's not exactly news that the SOFF admires Hitler and is a fascist to his core. None of his supporters care about that.
What I suspect is that the owners of the paper, who may have wanted the FOFF to win because he'd cut their taxes, have finally woken up to either the danger that he poses to the Republic or, more likely, the chances that they will be blamed, in part, for the destruction of our democratic system should he win. That may be why they have stopped sane-washing him and have begun to cover his clear mental decline, after months and months of only focusing on Joe Biden's. That is why they are running this interview with Gen. Kelly.
Well, damn them all. There are plenty of other news sources out there. I, for one, will not forget their venality.
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Better late than never... though in this case its closer to never and I hope it bites the NYT. Also its kinda interesting that Kelly popped up at this late date considering he must have held to those beliefs for a while.
Eck!
Like all the others, Kelly has left his intervention ineffectually late and thereby only made himself look a fool. But *unlike* all the others, he had the opportunity to actually do something. He did not rise to the moment, and nothing excuses that. He will not even be pressed to name a specious rationale, because it is so far too late.
You'd think that when he said "Just wait until you see what I'm going to do to them" about the NYFT, they would have gotten their first clue, but they apparently believe themselves to be beyond his influence.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Future AG Aileen Loose Cannon will do his bidding, whether it’s persecuting his enemies or giving him a hummer.
NYFT (love that acronym) is not bout venality so much as an immense sense of self-importance and self regard, making them something of a journalistic black hole. Dear Comrade's next post was about the old line from Nazi Germany...which may have finally begun to break through that they too are tumbril fodder.
I thought we had already decided the media were in the bag for tumples because it's good for business. Isn't this just discerning between Nero and Caligula?
Now the NYT can say "We weren't in the bag for Trump lookie how fair and balanced we are." But all of this and more Republicans coming out against Trump might just be the October surprise that is needed. And those that have already voted should be more for Harris since Trump has spent so much time until recently saying Mail-in voting is fraud. I even got a flyer in the mail a few weeks ago for Trump saying go ahead and vote early or by mail for Trump. My wife , who can't stand Trump, but doesn't go into the details or research about him said, "He sure does change his tune a lot. How can you trust what he says".
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