{"id":118296,"date":"2024-10-25T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T11:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118296"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T11:34:24","slug":"13-former-trump-administration-officials-sign-open-letter-backing-up-john-kellys-criticism-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118296","title":{"rendered":"13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly&#8217;s criticism of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Thirteen former Trump White House officials signed an open letter backing up former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/john-kelly-says-donald-trump-meets-definition-fascist-rcna176706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the New York Times<\/a> that Trump fits the definition of a fascist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second Trump term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly,\u201d the letter said. \u201cWe are all lifelong Republicans who served our country. However, there are moments in history where it becomes necessary to put country over party. This is one of those moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/25\/never-trump-former-officials-back-kelly-warning-00185435?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=adb3cce6-f89a-4dea-8172-316f044e571a&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> was first to report on the letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The letter, released by the Harris campaign, is signed by former officials including former press secretary Stephanie Grisham, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor, and Olivia Troye, former national security adviser to Mike Pence. All three former Trump administration officials have become high-profile critics of his after his presidency ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Troye and Grisham spoke at the Democratic National Convention this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/200-former-bush-mccain-romney-staffers-endorse-harris-rcna168363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Troye was also one of the signatories <\/a>of a letter in August from over 200 Republican officials backing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In his interview with the Times, released Tuesday, Kelly also said he observed Trump on multiple occasions praising Adolf Hitler. His comments came on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2024\/10\/trump-military-generals-hitler\/680327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same day the Atlantic reported<\/a> that Trump said he wished he had generals like Hitler. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In their letter, the former Trump officials said Kelly\u2019s claims were \u201cdisturbing and shocking.\u201d They added that \u201cbecause we know Trump and have worked for and alongside him, we were sadly not surprised by what General Kelly had to say. This is who Donald Trump is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-denies-saying-wanted-generals-hitlers-nazi-leader-good-things-rcna177177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump on Thursday denied<\/a> ever having said positive things about Adolf Hitler, including that he needed \u201cthe kind of generals that Hitler had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Harris campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/kamala-harris-calls-trump-fascist-argues-dangerous-unfit-office-rcna176713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been highlighting<\/a> Kelly\u2019s comments about his former boss, releasing a new ad on Thursday using Kelly\u2019s audio published by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In remarks Wednesday, Harris said that Kelly&#8217;s claims are &#8220;a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side by side in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She added that &#8220;in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">A Harris campaign official told NBC News that the campaign\u2019s focus group of undecided voters this week found Kelly credible and non-partisan, leading some to further question voting for Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/13-former-trump-administration-officials-sign-open-letter-backing-john-rcna177227\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen former Trump White House officials signed an open letter backing up former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, who told the New York Times that Trump fits the definition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118296\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}