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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

Trump claims he ‘couldn’t stand’ John Kelly and ‘fired him like a dog’

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Donald Trump has claimed that he “couldn’t stand” his ex-chief of staff General John Kelly and that he “fired him like a dog”, in his rage over damning revelations about his comments about veterans.

“John Kelly, by far the dumbest of my Military people, just picked up the theme of the Radical Left’s lying about Gold Star Families and Soldiers, in his hatred of me,” Mr Trump claimed in one of his many Truth Social rants on Wednesday. “He was incapable of doing a good job, it was too much for him, and I couldn’t stand the guy, so I fired him like a ‘dog.’”

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