Donald Trump is known for quoting sources when boldly lying, if he cites them at all. As usual, he opted on Sunday to attack someone else for doing just that.
“The Washington Post is far more fiction than fact. Story after story is made up garbage – more like a poorly written novel than good reporting. Always quoting sources (not names), many of which don’t exist. Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit job!
The president is referring to ‘When you lose that power,’ an article published Saturday by the Post that details how “John Kelly faded as White House disciplinarian.”
“After White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly pressured President Trump last fall to install his top deputy, Kirstjen Nielsen, atop the Department of Homeland Security, the president lost his temper when conservative allies argued that she wasn’t sufficiently hard line on immigration,” The Post reported. “‘You didn’t tell me she was a [expletive] George W. Bush person,’ Trump growled.”
“The recurring and escalating clashes between the president and his chief of staff trace the downward arc of Kelly’s eight months in the White House,” they continued. “Both his credibility and his influence have been severely diminished, administration officials said, a clear decline for the retired four-star Marine Corps general who arrived with a reputation for integrity and a mandate to bring order to a chaotic West Wing.”
As some Twitter users have pointed out: