Anyone ever believe Kelly was an honorable man, an 'adult' in the room?

[bigtree]

...the first time Kelly came on the scene in the Grifter administration he was at Homeland Security, pushing Trump assaults on immigration and immigrants which provoked hundreds of thousands of protesters to spontaneously flood airports and city streets in opposition.

He was always just another Trumpworld asshole to me.

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[samir.g]

1. He was a hired killer all along

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. He's told us what he is and it's a great big steaming pile of bigoted shit!

[uponit7771]

3. Kelly a punk ass too

[VOX]

4. He sure as hell aint General Eisenhower.

Kelly’s a deep-dish white nationalist, just like the other ghouls propping up the Dotard.

[HopeAgain]

5. False assumption:

Just because they were generals in our military, they are good people.

[Lifelong Protester]

6. K & R!

Did not for a moment that J. Kelly was the "adult" in the room.

[dchill]

7. Generals who become Trump lap dogs...

have no integrity or honor. References to those qualities are rendered moot.

[gratuitous]

9. There WAS some knuckleheaded speculation

When Kelly first took the White House job, some folks speculated that he was doing it out of a sense of patriotism and duty to the country, that his military background compelled him to do what he could to "save" the country from the worst impulses of the Trump administration.

Hilarious, in hindsight. Well, maybe not rib-ticklingly funny, but at least chuckleworthy.

[dchill]

11. In politics, it would seem that hilarity...

is in the eye of the beholder. Sadly, ironically.

But yeah, it's hilarious.

[Tipperary]

8. No. I never did.

[BigmanPigman]

10. My 84 year old dad could never stand him.

He said, "Just because a man wears a uniform from the American military doesn't mean they are any better or worse than any other man not wearing a uniform. It does not automatically bestow respect and honor, that must be earned every single day".

[lunasun]

12. Dangerous to our security

John Kelly already knew Rob Porter had a restraining order against him
and Porter, whose job was reviewing all documents that go to the president, didn't have a full security clearance because of that protection order against him

[Kirk Lover]

13. Yes I thought he was somewhat honorable - until he opened his got damn mouth.

When he was over there at Homeland giving out interviews I was pretty shocked at what he was saying. I said this is going well beyond shilling this sounds like he means it for himself, he believes this.

[JI7]

14. I think people were hoping when he got rid of Bannon and some others

But turns out that had more to do with ego and power and not issues.

Kelly is a bigoted scumbag.

[Skittles]

15. someone has something on him

it makes no sense how he continues to disgrace himself

[Cha]

16. Mahalo Ted Lieu

[Rollo]

17. Let us hope all these creeps will be swept out of the West Wing in 2020 or sooner...

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. merely wishful thinking on the part of a terrified nation.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. Officers like Kelly get promoted because

better officers drop out along the way because they don't like the politics involved or end up under a commander who gives them a career-killing FITREP for one reason or another or see too many dopes in the chain-of-command above them. Once you get that first star, the next promotion is all political (having the right job, right command, right mentor, etc).

It's like a stock car race. Better cars and drivers leave the race from crashes, mechanical failure, bad fuel management, etc. The cars that are left win because they hang in the race, not necessarily because they're the best.

[BlueStater]

20. Never really heard of him before he started working in this administration.

He revealed his true piece-of-shit character when he lied about a black congresswoman and refused to apologize to her after the truth was discovered. Any hope that he was anything other than just another douchebag working for Trump went right out the window.

[Bucky]

21. Saying "he's more mature & capable than Trump" wasn't a compliment

It was meant as a sad irony