Why Trump is wrong to attack John Kelly’s White House service

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President Trump obviously has the right to rebuke his critics. But just as liberal elitists who do much the same, he was wrong to personally insult former White House chief of staff John Kelly by saying he had been in “way over his head.”

Kelly served in that position between July 2017 and January 2019, and Trump attacked him in a tweet on Thursday.

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