White House chief of staff John Kelly, in an extraordinary and at times emotional statement Thursday, said he was "Stunned" by what a Democratic congresswoman told reporters after she listened in on President Donald Trump's call to the widow of a fallen soldier.
Kelly said he advised Trump on what to say to the families of the four soldiers who were killed in an ambush in Niger, among them Sgt. La David Johnson. Kelly said he encouraged Trump to offer words similar to those that Gen. Joseph Dunford offered to Kelly when his own son was killed in combat in Afghanistan. Source 7c.
White House chief of staff John Kelly expected to resign soon. John Kelly is expected to resign as White House chief of staff in the coming days, two sources familiar with the situation unfolding in the West Wing tell CNN.
Seventeen months in, Kelly and President Donald Trump have reached a stalemate in their relationship and it is no longer seen as tenable by either party. Though Trump asked Kelly over the summer to stay on as chief of staff for two more years, the two have stopped speaking in recent days. Ref. CNN.