Kelly 'tainted irrevocably' by Trump
Four-star general wheeled out to provide moral fig leaf for Trump's blustering response to death of four US soldiers
Don’t question the generals. The creeping authoritarianism of the Trump administration was laid bare during the ugliest and most shambolic week of the Trump presidency to date – as was the downside of charging military leaders with mitigating the excesses of a nepotistic kleptocracy.
The week-long furore that erupted over Trump’s response to the ambush and deaths of four US soldiers in Niger provides a searing illumination of the moral bankruptcy of an administration that has traded dignity and empathy for gaslighting andrace-baiting.