Looks Like Trump's Reined in Kelly, Not the Other Way Around - Margaret Carlson

‘INTEGRITY AND HONOR’

Looks Like Trump’s Reined in Kelly, Not the Other Way Around

The general was supposed to be the grown-up in the room. Instead, he’s just the latest person to sacrifice his own reputation to protect the president’s ‘good name.’

MARGARET CARLSON
02.08.18 4:51 AM ET

John Kelly, the four-star general brought in to be father to a bumptious son who happened to be president of the United State, was not supposed to turn out like his charge.

But with Kelly’s remark that a lot of Dreamers were “too lazy to get off their asses” and his knee-jerk defense of White House staff secretary and alleged wife-beater Rob Porter, Kelly has come to resemble the man he was supposed to uplift instead of the other way around.

The latest and most serious lapse came when Kelly ignored charges that Porter had beaten his first two wives, as related to the FBI in background interviews for his permanent security clearance which reportedly he never got and worked a heartbeat away from the president without. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported that Porter’s second wife said that Porter yanked her naked out of the shower and called her unspeakable names on their honeymoon.

Without taking a breath, and although CNN reported Kelly knew the charges that made it necessary to grant Porter a temporary waiver, Kelly leapt to his friend’s defense when the news about them came out, calling him a man of “integrity and honor,” a “friend” and “confidante” about whom he couldn’t say “enough good things.”

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