False Attack Because He Didn't Know the
Facts (Or Didn't Care)
In the midst of the lionization of Gen.
John Kelly, Chief of Staff in the White House comes a true story
which shows just what kind of man he is.
From
the AP is a report that completely contradicts Kelly's depiction
of an event a Democratic Congresswoman who had the temerity to
criticize Trump on his call to a Gold Star family.
John
Kelly said she stunned the audience at the somber ceremony by
recounting how she had been the driving force behind raising money
for the building, the FBI's South Florida headquarters. But a video
of her remarks at the dedication shows she never took credit for
getting the government to come up with the money for the project.
Indeed, the building was approved several years before she entered
Congress.
Now people make mistakes. A decent
person would apologize and move on. But that cannot be done by
anyone associated with Trump. The Trumpie corrupts everyone around
him. And in this case there is no spin, just the facts and the video
to back them up.
KELLY:
"And a congresswoman stood up, and in a long tradition of empty
barrels making the most noise, stood up there in 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'd done it. Even
for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned."
THE
FACTS: Kelly's recollection is incorrect. In her nine-minute speech
at the April 10, 2015, dedication ceremony, a video of which was
found by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Wilson never mentions the
building's financing.
She
did, though, spend up to three minutes talking about an effort she
did lead — to have the building named after the special agents, Ben
Grogan and Jerry Dove, who were killed in a 1986 gun battle in Miami.
She recounted how she was asked by the FBI four weeks earlier to
expedite a bill through Congress to name the building after Grogan
and Dove. She said the process normally takes eight months to a year.
"I
went into attack mode," she told the audience. She said she
approached then-Speaker John Boehner, telling him "the FBI needs
your help and our country needs your help." She said Boehner got
the bill to the House floor for a vote in two days. She said she then
rushed the bill to Florida Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, who got
the bill passed by that chamber two days later. President Barack
Obama signed the bill three days before the dedication ceremony. The
audience responded with loud applause.
"It's
a miracle but it speaks to the respect that our Congress has for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation," she said.
She
then asked all first responders to stand so they could receive
applause.
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