Democratic Congresswoman Fires Back: ‘The White House Itself Is Full of White Supremacists’

‘I Feel Very Sorry for Him Because He Feels Such a Need to Lie on Me and I’m Not Even His Enemy’ Wilson Said

U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) is fighting back, and hard, after a Florida news outlet released video proving White House chief-of-staff John Kelly was wrong when he accused her of using the dedication ceremony of an FBI building to grandstand. Kelly also accused Rep. Wilson of bragging about securing funding for the building, and of patting herself on the back.

“Ms. Wilson, in an interview on Friday, called Mr. Kelly a liar and hinted strongly that the altercation, prompted by a call from President Trump to the widow of a fallen black soldier, was racially charged,” The New York Times reported Friday afternoon.

And Wilson’s remarks did not stop there.

“The White House itself is full of white supremacists,” Wilson told the Times.

Kelly had also called her an “empty barrel,” which Wilson charges is a racist term.

“I feel very sorry for him because he feels such a need to lie on me and I’m not even his enemy,” Wilson said, speaking about Gen. Kelly. “I just can’t even imagine why he would fabricate something like that. That is absolutely insane. I’m just flabbergasted because it’s very easy to trace.” 

While she stopped short of accusing Mr. Kelly, a retired Marine general, of racial animas, she did say that others in the White House are racially biased.

“They are making themselves look like fools. They have no credibility,” she said. “They are trying to assassinate my character, and they are assassinating their own because everything they say is coming out and shown to be a lie.”

The White House, told the video that disproves Gen. Kelly’s attacks on Congresswoman Wilson, stuck to its guns, and warned reporters to not go there.

“If you want to go after General Kelly that’s up to you, but I think that, if you want to get into a debate with a 4-star Marine general, I think that that’s something highly inappropriate,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a reporter Friday afternoon. The message was loud and clear: Don’t mess with us.

On Wednesday, Rep. Wilson took to Facebook to explain why she was in the car when President Trump called Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in Niger two weeks ago.

“This is personal for me, not political,” Wilson wrote. “Sgt. Johnson was a member of my community and of the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project that I founded to help boys of color build successful futures. He was killed while on a mission to provide training and security assistance to West African armed forces battling vicious insurgents like Boko Haram, the group whose defeat I’ve been fighting for since it abducted nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls more than three years ago.”

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