{"id":331395,"date":"2017-10-20T23:57:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-john-kelly-delivers-must-watch-press-briefing-about-military-service\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T23:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:57:13","slug":"prison-planet-com-john-kelly-delivers-must-watch-press-briefing-about-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-john-kelly-delivers-must-watch-press-briefing-about-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb John Kelly Delivers Must-Watch Press Briefing About Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthrevolt.org\/news\/john-kelly-delivers-must-watch-press-briefing-about-military-service\"><strong>Truth Revolt<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ps5ttDzWBaY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>At a White House press briefing Thursday addressing\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0role in comforting grieving Gold Star family members, chief of staff John Kelly gave the press a powerful earful about the sacrifices American servicemembers and their families make for our country. In the process he utterly excoriated clownish Democrat Congresswoman Frederica Wilson for listening in on, and politicizing, the President\u2019s phone call to the grieving widow of a slain soldier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wilson had revealed that the President told Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, that her husband \u201cknew what he was getting into\u201d \u2014 a comment the Trump-hating media ran with, as if Trump were callously dismissing the soldier\u2019s death. Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on the conversation \u2013 absolutely stuns me,\u201d said retired general Kelly, who lost his own son in battle. \u201cAnd I thought at least that was sacred\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When I was a kid growing up I thought a lot of things were sacred in our country. Women were sacred, looked upon with great honor. That\u2019s obviously not the case anymore as we\u2019ve seen from recent cases. Life was sacred. That\u2019s gone. Religion. That seems to be gone as well. Gold Star families, I think that left in the convention over the Summer. I just thought the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die in the battlefield, I thought that might be sacred.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kelly said he was so disturbed by Wilson\u2019s public statements that he went to Arlington National Cemetery to spend time among the graves of soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice, \u201csome of whom I put there,\u201d referring to his command of soldiers in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly confirmed that he had advised a very concerned Trump about what to say to a soldier\u2019s grieving family, including the aforementioned statement for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/john-kelly-delivers-must-watch-press-briefing-about-military-service.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth RevoltOctober 20, 2017 At a White House press briefing Thursday addressing\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0role in comforting grieving Gold Star family members, chief of staff John Kelly gave the press a powerful earful about the sacrifices American servicemembers and their families make for our country. In the process he utterly excoriated clownish Democrat Congresswoman Frederica Wilson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}