Ex-Trump official shocked by support for Donald
newsweek.com
Kelly is questioning the amount of support Trump has been able to gain despite the former president's legal woes, according to The Washington Post.
"What's going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he's said the things he's said and done the things he's done?" Kelly said in a recent interview, according to the newspaper. "It's beyond my comprehension he has the support he has."
You helped create this, Kelly. Fuck you.
Why? Because Trump is the idiot whisperer. He makes the dumbest motherfuckers America has to offer feel smart.
But until December 2018, you thought he was a "good president" - good enough to continue being his Chief of Fucking Staff - in spite of all the "things he's said and done" up until that point? Unless Kelly is admitting that he was wrong about Trump the whole time, admits that mistake, he can go jump.
My recollection is that Kelly had a pretty contentious relationship with his President and, even at the time, portrayed himself as 'the adult in the room' trying to restrain Trump's worst impulses. There was a whole stream of people who served with barely concealed disdain, then promptly unloaded in scandalous books and interviews upon leaving the administration.
Plenty of people did just join the grifter admin to get their grift on, but a few of them had the misguided idea that they could be the one to make Trump understand politics and professionalism.
I agree. Generously, up to 2020, I can reasonably believe a smattering of Republicans thinking that Trump could be the bf that they could "fix". After that I don't know how people see him as anything other than someone a crazy old crook who would put himself above the entire country, given the (second) opportunity.
I've said this before, but it bears repeating. In 2016 there was a panel discussion that brought together the creators of the top US political TV shows. Dramas like Scandal; the West Wing, VEEP; House of Cards, and the rest.
All the writers and producers said the same thing; if they had a character who was running for office and then said that they 'liked soldiers who didn't get captured' the networks and advertisers would have demanded that the character be castigated by the entire nation.
He did what the rest of us have done:
He’s underestimated the amount of critically insane and stupid people there are in America.
A mistake that should only have ever be made once- but we’re looking at doing it again as soon as possible it seems.
Lead paint and leaded gasoline did a number on this country
And Fox News.
You mean Putin* 🙃
Are they not the same thing?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has recently been shown to be leading President Joe Biden in five out of the six key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College released early November.
Multiple national polls also show the former president leading Biden despite Trump's legal troubles, as he faces a wave of indictments at both the state and federal levels.
In a post to Truth Social in October, Trump called Kelly "the dumbest of my Military people," adding that he was "incapable of doing a good job, it was too much for him, and I couldn't stand the guy, so I fired him like a 'dog.'"
Alyssa Farah Griffin, a Republican who worked as an aide in Trump's White House, said last week that she is terrified to think that the former president may once again serve in the Oval Office.
"Got an advance copy of @jonkarl's new book: Tired of Winning and it paints a scary picture of an increasingly isolated, unhinged Trump who is surrounded by those who won't challenge him.
"Donald made me the very first political prisoner held by this country for failing to waive a First Amendment constitutional right," Cohen, who is a key witness in the trial, said in an MSNBC interview on All In With Chris Hayes.
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