‘New Yorker’ Columnist Says Kelly’s Defense Of Gold Star Sanctity Is Like A ‘Military Coup’

On Thursday, White House chief of staff General John Kelly defended the sanctity of calls between the president of the United States and Gold Star families in powerful terms. That threw a wrench into the Left’s narrative that President Trump doesn’t care enough about the troops, and that Rep. Frederica Wilson’s (D-FL) claims that Trump insulted the family of Sgt. La David Johnson were eminently appropriate.

That press conference led to a bevy of hot takes: Wilson herself calling Kelly racist, Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC doing the same, Brian Fallon saying that Kelly couldn’t be trusted thanks to his loyalty to Trump.