Former WH Chief of Staff John Kelly says he disagreed with some Trump admin. policies and dodges questions about the president reportedly intervening to secure top-secret security clearances for his daughter Ivanka Trump and son–in–law, Jared Kushner.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly stands before a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House on July 31, 2017.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.DURHAM, N.C.
Relatively subdued and cautious, Kelly landed some gloved swipes on his former boss — at one point saying if Trump's former Democratic rival had won the presidency and asked him to serve, he would have worked for her.The wide-ranging question-and-answer session before several hundred people marked the first time Kelly, who left the White House at the end of 2018 after a rocky tenure, has publicly addressed the president’s role in his family members’ security clearances.
On the administration’s handling of children at the southern border, he was critical, though he blamed then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions for catching the White House by surprise with the adoption of a “zero tolerance” policy. He didn’t defend Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for a border wall and said: “We don’t need a wall from sea to shining sea.”
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