'The president did not fire him': Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly defends Mattis after Twitter attacks
Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images- President Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, defended former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis Thursday after Trump blasted Mattis on Twitter Wednesday night.
- Trump claimed that he fired Mattis and asked for his resignation, two points that Kelly rejected in an interview with The Washington Post, during which he suggested the president might be "confused" and called Mattis an "honorable man."
- The president's tweets criticizing Mattis followed a scathing statement by Mattis earlier Wednesday accusing Trump of dividing the nation in a time of unrest.
- Hours after Kelly's comments to The Post, Trump hit back at his former chief of staff on Twitter, saying he would not know about Trump's interactions with Mattis.
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"The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation," Kelly, also a retired Marine Corps general, told The Washington Post Thursday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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