Why?
Charlie Pierce notes that General Kelly embraces the dark in his support of Trump’s conduct in the call to Sergeant Johnson’s family. But Jake Tapper realized that the General’s account indicates that Trump said what Congresswoman Wilson reported and Trump lied about it.
Apparently General Kelly is upset that Congresswoman Wilson noticed what Trump said and repeated it. The General seems to think that the family is at fault for not understanding what Trump supposedly meant in his comment to Mrs. Johnson.
The General noted that President Obama didn’t call him after his son’s death, but didn’t mention that his son’s wife would have been the next of kin, not him. I’m sure that that was just an oversight and not an intentional swipe at President Obama.
