On Thursday, White House chief of staff John Kelly — a Gold Star father and a four-star general — gave a much-ballyhooed press conference in which he ripped into Rep. Frederica Wilson (R-FL), whom he suggested had used a presidential call to Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson for her own political gain. Kelly explicitly tore into Wilson over an April 2015 event at which Kelly suggested that Wilson had touted her own contribution to the building of a building named after two fallen FBI agents. Here was Kelly’s account:
There were family members there. Some of the children that were there were three or four years old when their dads were killed on that street in Miami-Dade. Three of the men that survived the fight were there, and gave a rendition of how brave those men were and how they gave their lives. And a congresswoman stood up, and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there and all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call he gave the money — the $20 million — to build the building. And she sat down, and we were stunned. Stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned. But, you know, none of us went to the press and criticized. None of us stood up and were appalled. We just said, O.K., fine.
So, was Kelly wrong?
Not really. He may have been wrong about the question of Wilson taking credit for the building funding versus the name, but he certainly wasn’t wrong about Wilson patting herself on the back in an inappropriate way. – READ MORE
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