Donald Trump doubled down on his completely false accusation that President Obama ignored the families of fallen military service members today by politicizing the death of Chief of Staff John Kelly's son who was killed in action in 2010.
“You could ask General Kelly if he got a call from Obama,” Trump said.
While it's not clear that President Obama called Kelly by phone to offer condolences, CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports the retired general and his wife joined first lady Michelle Obama at her table during a White House breakfast for Gold Star families in 2011.
For the most part, Kelly has kept the loss and his grief private.
From Raw Story:
Second Lt. Robert Kelly was killed at age 29 while leading a platoon in Afghanistan in November 2010, and his father delivered a speech four days later about military sacrifices and the troops’ growing isolation from society.
His father has largely avoided speaking publicly about his family’s loss since then, and asked the Marine Corps officer who introduced him ahead of that impassioned speech not to mention his son.
“We are only one of 5,500 American families who have suffered the loss of a child in this war,” Kelly told the Washington Post six years ago. “The death of my boy simply cannot be made to seem any more tragic than the others.”
For Trump to bring up such an intensely private matter for his Chief of Staff to try and score political points against Obama is beyond the pale.
Trump just used John Kelly’s dead son to try & prove Obama didn’t call families of fallen soldiers—If I were Kelly I’d resign—this is awful. https://t.co/yT4iKlGiC9— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 17, 2017
Wonder how General Kelly feels about Trump using his deceased son as a political pawn this morning https://t.co/yxnje9mYfV— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) October 17, 2017
Trump is using Kelly’s son’s blood as partisan war paint, and still Kelly will not resign. https://t.co/CgkNBX9UEb— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 17, 2017
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