John Kelly Got It Very, Very Wrong

Posted by Melissa McEwan at Friday, October 20, 2017
Yesterday, during his attempt to redirect the conversation away from Donald Trump's appalling behavior toward Myeshia Johnson, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly launched an unbelievable, dehumanizing attack on Rep. Frederica Wilson, who reported what Trump said to Johnson on a condolence call.

Kelly got the facts wrong. He got who Rep. Wilson is wrong. He got, as deliberatively detailed by Lawrence O'Donnell in an absolutely devastating segment last night, everything wrong.


[The transcript will be here, when available.]

Searing.

John Kelly was no hero yesterday. He was Trump's attack dog. And the attack was on a Black woman, once again.
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