Vance: “Everything that John Kelly said is not true.”
Vance described Trump’s former chief of staff as a “disgruntled ex-employee."
Mia McCarthy
Sen. JD Vance on Thursday shot back against John Kelly’s claims that Donald Trump meets the definition of a fascist, saying that everything the former Trump official said “is not true.”
The vice presidential nominee, when asked about Kelly’s comments during a rally in Waterford, Michigan, described Trump’s former chief of staff as a “disgruntled ex-employee” making up rumors in spite of Trump.
“Here’s the thing about what John Kelly said. John Kelly was fired by Donald Trump and he's pissed off about it and he wont stop talking about it,” Vance said during a rally in Michigan. “Every time that John Kelly said that something happened you’ve got three or four people who were allegedly in the room when it happened saying he’s making it up.”
He added, “So who do we believe? Do we believe multiple eyewitnesses or do we believe a disgruntled ex-employee? I believe the multiple eyewitnesses. I think everything that John Kelly said is not true.”
Vance also suggested Kamala Harris’ campaign had worked with Kelly before his comments.
“John Kelly did not come out of his own volition. I guarantee he talked to someone on Kamala Harris’ campaign beforehand,” Vance said. “And we gotta ask ourselves, why are the media and, most importantly, why is Kamala Harris talking about a disgruntled former employee instead of the fact that under her leadership grocery prices were up 25 percent in the state of Michigan?”
Kelly, who in an interview with the New York Times, said Trump is “certainly an authoritarian” and “admires people who are dictators,” in addition to meeting the definition of a fascist. Trump, according to a book, also told Kelly that Adolf “Hitler did some good things.”
Kelly also previously served as Department of Homeland Security secretary, where he said Trump called U.S. troops that were killed, wounded or captured “losers and suckers” and refused to appear with veteran amputees.
Kelly told the New York Times that he spoke out because of Trump's comments that he would use the military against his domestic political enemies.
The Harris campaign, in a statement shortly after Vance’s remarks, said the senator knows “the truth about Trump’s dangerous disregard for the rule of law and his desire to wield unchecked power against his fellow Americans.”
“Vance’s public outbursts aren’t going to change the fact that those who know Trump best are warning all Americans that he’s a threat to our democracy — and that he would be even more dangerous in a second term,” Democratic National Commitee spokesperson Alex Floyd said in a statement.
Trump lashed out at Kelly on Wednesday night in a Truth Social post, where he denied Kelly’s claims and called him a “bad general."
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