John Kelly the "grownup"? Forget it -- Homeland Security chief turns out to be another Trump zealot
MONDAY, JUN 12, 2017 08:05 AM EDT
John Kelly the “grownup”? Forget it — Homeland Security chief turns out to be another Trump zealot
Democrats are finally noticing that Kelly's an immigration hardliner and anti-drug fanatic with a dubious worldview
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
It’s unclear as I write this whether or not Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in open or closed session. He has cancelled his previously scheduled appearance at an open hearing before the Appropriations Committee, so the speculation is that he just doesn’t want to appear in public right now.
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With all the suspicion swirling around Sessions it’s actually possible that he could eventually be forced to step down. Since he’s probably the most pernicious of all the domestic Trump appointees that would be a relief. But he’s just one member of the Carnage Crew and there are others making worrisome progress in making America worse than ever.
Over the weekend, Politico reported that Democrats are becoming alarmed that the Director of Homeland Security, retired Gen. John Kelly, isn’t the calming influence on Trump that they’d hoped. For some reason they believed Kelly he would rein in Trump’s draconian policies on immigration and security. They were wrong:
<Instead, Kelly has moved to impose those policies with military rigor. He has pursued an aggressive deportation campaign; defended Trump’s effort to ban visitors from several Muslim-majority countries; and hinted that he might separate migrant parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Kelly has joked with Trump about using violence against reporters and defended Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, amid allegations that he tried to set up a secret back channel to the Russian government.>
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