Donald Trump went through four chiefs of staff during his presidency—he started with former RNC Chair Reince Priebus, then moved on to retired Marine General John F. Kelly, then former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Mick Mulvaney, and finally to former North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows. Little known fact: the official role was first created during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. But one of those chiefs has been spouting off as of late, making huge headlines in the liberal press and causing Democrats to froth at the mouth over their latest “Trump is a Nazi” rhetoric. I speak, of course, of John F. Kelly, who, although he served the president from 2017 to 2019, now claims that Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.” Don’t turn your back on this guy, especially if there’s a knife around:
It all sounds good if you’re a Never Trumper, but there’s just one little problem. Another chief of staff, who worked in close collaboration with the former president, says it’s a whole bunch of malarkey.
I was Trump’s chief of staff — ex-aide’s Hitler claims are derangedThat's the title for Mick Mulvaney’s Tuesday op-ed in the New York Post. That about says it all—but he has more. The whole portrayal is total BS, Mulvaney contends:
And the Hitler stuff? Yeah, no:
He also adds the kicker that the retired general’s “recent behavior is simply consistent with what many of us saw in the White House during Kelly’s tenure.” That’s a nice way of saying he was always out for himself and was never a team player. Nor was he looking after America's best interests. This whole “Trump is a Nazi” narrative has been yet another disgusting effort by the media and the left to sow division and incite hate. Since John Kelly is a Marine, I will not say what I really think of his antics out of respect, but let’s just say that his behavior and his rhetoric are inflammatory and have done nothing to bring this country together. They also don’t comport with the reality that others who served with Trump like Mulvaney are reporting or what we see on a daily basis from the GOP nominee himself. In fact, as Mulvaney eloquently points out, if Trump admired Hitler, a true patriot would have objected or resigned:
Boom. Mulvaney just blew this trash narrative out of the water. Kelly, it would appear, is just another self-serving, bitter narcissist who didn’t get what he wanted, so he has taken his ball and gone home in a snit.
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