Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, needs to be fired or resign. Period.
Kelly knew Rob Porter was an abuser of women and even though Porter offered to leave in December, Kelly asked him to stay. Unbelievable.
Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah in Thursday’s daily news briefing said Kelly, like the rest of the White House, learned the details of the abuse accusations only from the news reports. “He became fully aware about these allegations yesterday,” Shah said.
Yet that assertion was challenged by a Republican close to the White House who said Kelly received word last fall that Porter had failed his security clearance investigation because of the domestic abuse reports. Porter at that time told Kelly he would leave the White House in December but agreed to stay at Kelly’s urging, the Republican said on condition of anonymity.