“Kelly needed to be loyal to him, and only to him,” Trump wrote, according to Smith Axios.
According to White Xios, Schmidt’s book states that Kelly, who serves as White House Chief of Staff, “immediately understood the problem with Trump’s request for loyalty and pushed him back to the president’s request,” according to Schmidt’s book.
Instead, Kelly said he would “remain loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law, but he refused to pledge allegiance to Trump.”
At the time, Komi was leading an investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign were allied with the Russians who hacked the 2016 election. The Trump administration has said it is getting rid of the coma because of the way it handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Mueller documented detailed evidence in his final report in March 2019 that Trump tried to obstruct Russia’s investigation in a number of ways, and refused to make a charging decision. The Justice Department’s policy states that the sitting president cannot be charged.
According to Axios, Schmidt writes that “working directly with Trump during Kelly’s time, Kelly was repeatedly attacked because Trump failed to understand who worked for him – like Kelly and other top former generals – not loyal to him. Is interested in being, but not in the institutions of American democracy. “
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