JAMES MATTIS/JOHN KELLY: “John Kelly didn’t know I was going to fire James Mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. Why would I tell him, he was not…
…in my inner-circle, was totally exhausted by the job, and in the end just slinked away into obscurity. They all want to come back for a piece of the limelight!“
–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 4, 2020 1:16 pm