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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

John Kelly

Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN town hall in Aston, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2024. (AP/Matt Rourke)
October 24, 2024, 6:40 am
Harris says Trump ‘is a fascist’ after ex-aide said he wanted generals like Hitler’s
Vice president calls her rival ‘a danger to the well-being and security’ of US, saying his reported suggestion the Nazi leader ‘did some good things’ shows who he ‘really is’
By Dan Merica
File: Then-US president Donald Trump talks with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly after he was privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office in Washington, July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
October 23, 2024, 10:43 pm
Trump’s ex-chief of staff: He meets definition of fascist, prefers dictator approach
John Kelly also quotes former president as having told him Hitler ‘did some good things,’ and that he wanted ‘German generals’ like the Nazi leader had
By Tim Reid, Stephanie Kelly and Jeff Mason
Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
March 12, 2024, 6:49 pm
Trump admires Hitler, is infatuated with Putin, former staff claim in new book
Excerpt from Jim Sciutto’s ‘The Return of Great Powers’ shares insight into former, and would-be, US president’s desire to emulate the ‘tough guy’ authoritarians he looks up to
By ToI Staff
Then-US president Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly walk toward Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
August 8, 2022, 6:00 pm
Report: Trump demanded his generals be loyal like German generals were to Hitler
New book claims exchange came as top US army officers pushed back against then-president’s plan to hold a military parade in Washington, warning him that’s ‘what dictators do’
By ToI Staff
Then-US president Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly walk toward Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
July 7, 2021, 6:27 pm
Trump praised Hitler for doing ‘a lot of good things,’ says new book
Former US president allegedly made remark to his then-chief of staff John Kelly during 2018 trip to Europe, ‘was undeterred’ by pushback
By AFP
US President Donald Trump arrives to attend a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of the First World War at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, Sunday, November 11, 2018. (Benoit Tessier/Pool Photo via AP)
September 4, 2020, 6:13 am
Report: Trump disparaged American war dead as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’
US president declined to visit military cemetery in France in 2018 because he feared rain would mess up his hair and dead soldiers were ‘losers’ anyway, officials say
By JAMES LaPORTA
Then-US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House, October 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 13, 2019, 1:46 am
In new book, Haley says Tillerson vehemently opposed embassy move to Jerusalem
Former US envoy to United Nations dedicates chapter to Israel, and the White House in-fighting it drew; details how she tried to ‘change the culture’ of anti-Israel bias at the UN
By Eric Cortellessa
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Oval office of the White House on October 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Olivier Douliery)
November 10, 2019, 10:23 pm
Haley, in book, says Tillerson and Kelly tried to subvert Trump
In memoir, former UN ambassador writes that top aides to US president told her they were acting in the best interests of country
By AFP
This file photo taken on November 20, 2016 shows US President-elect Donald Trump meeting with retired Marine Corps general John Kelly at the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (AFP/Don Emmert)
October 27, 2019, 7:54 am
Former White House chief of staff says he warned Trump on impeachment
Hitting back, press secretary says John Kelly was ‘totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (R) and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow (2nd R) take part in a meeting between US President Donald Trump and China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 22, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
March 1, 2019, 3:39 am
Trump ordered Kushner be given security clearance despite concerns — report
NYT says chief of staff John Kelly wrote memo saying president had demanded high-level access for his son-in-law, overriding questions regarding foreign ties, including to Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. From left are Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Vice President Mike Pence, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and Defense Secretary James Mattis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
December 21, 2018, 7:03 pm
As advisers leave, Trump’s guardrails come off
Mattis resignation marks the end of the ‘axis of adults,’ senior advisers who worked to guide the president and curb his most disruptive impulses
By Julie Pace and Zeke Miller
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney talks to reporters in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
December 15, 2018, 2:38 am
Trump picks budget head Mulvaney to be acting chief of staff
Head of the Office of Management and Budget designated as temporary replacement for John Kelly, but no time limit on his tenure
By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin and Catherine Lucey
In this July 25, 2017 file photo, White House Senior Adviser and envoy, Jared Kushner, listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
December 14, 2018, 2:51 am
Trump said to be considering son-in-law Kushner for chief of staff role
Senior adviser tasked with administration’s plans for Middle East peace reportedly eyed for key White House role, as US president scrambles to find replacement for Kelly
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on October 1, 2018 US Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer speaks next to US President Donald Trump from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (Jim WATSON / AFP)
December 11, 2018, 3:58 am
Trump administration scrambling to find new chief of staff
Mick Mulvaney, Chris Christie said to be in running to replace John Kelly, though many candidates worry about working for mercurial president who courts chaos
By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire
In a Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, Nick Ayers, right, listens as Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch waits for the arrival of the casket for former President George H.W. Bush to lie in State at the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington.(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
December 10, 2018, 5:03 am
Pence aide out of running to be Trump’s next chief of staff
More names emerge as possible contenders for the crucial job, after Nick Ayers begs off
By Zeke Miller
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