Marco Rubio Flat Out Accuses Gens. Milley and Kelly of Lying With Their Recent Claims Against Trump: ‘Very Dubious’
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) accused Generals Mark Milley and John Kelly of lying with their recent claims against former President Donald Trump.
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Rubio denounced Milley and Kelly for the timing of their comments about the former president. Milley, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Trump, warned Bob Woodward — in the famed journalist’s new book — that the former president is “fascist to the core.” And Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff, told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that Trump praised Adolf Hitler.
“How interesting that these claims that were made this week pop up with a week-and-a-half to go before the election,” Rubio told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream. “If you, in fact, believed, as some of these people claim, that Donald Trump is all these horrible things — Nazi, fascist, all these crazy terms they throw around — why didn’t you stand up and walk out of that White House or that administration the moment you heard those terms? Why didn’t you say that at that time and not wait till after the fact? Those are questions are never going to get asked because this is entirely a political hit job where these people are trying to elevate themselves to become more employable and be able to make more money. And it’s also timed perfectly so that they can ask [Vice President Kamala Harris] about it on CNN, and she can make the answer that she made.”
Bream proceeded to ask Rubio, “Do you think people like General Milley, like John Kelly, are lying?”
“Yes, I do,” Rubio said bluntly. “But even if they aren’t lying, or even, let’s say, you don’t want to call them a liar. I would say it’s very dubious to see these accusations coming at the very last minute right before an election. These are the kinds of things— somebody says that in front of me, I say it right away, I walk out, I resign, I leave. They didn’t do any of those things. And I think it’s hypocritical to see a bunch of Democrats who spent months, weeks trashing these people — particularly in the case of John Kelly — trashing him, saying that he was corrupt, that they accused him of potentially being a Nazi. At one point, I remember they attacked him over some Civil War comments that he made. They were horrible to him. So all of a sudden now these people, this guy who they hated and said horrible things about, now he is the standard of proof here? Here he is, the absolute final word on these topics?”
Watch above, via Fox News Sunday.
