Lyin' Johnnie, hypocrite extraordinaire

I won't dignify Trump apologist John Kelly with his military title because his shameful smear of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson offended the hell out me. As far as I'm concerned, his disgusting performance erases any previous honors he earned. Henceforward, I'll call that lying bastard "Johnnie" or "Jonnikins."

First: Johnnie's charactization of Frederica Wilson's speech in 2015 was a complete fabrication, as the video evidence proves. Jonnikins said that Wilson spent her time congratulating herself for something she did not actually do, and that she immediately sat down and left everyone appalled. The video proves -- conclusively, without any room for interpretation -- that Johnnie told a deliberate lie.

Did Jonnikins feel free to lie about Wilson because she is female? Becase she is black? Or because she is a Democrat?

Perhaps he has simply become part of the Trumpist culture of lying. Perhaps he inhabits an Alt Right fantasy world in which the past you prefer becomes the past you remember. (That sort of thing is precisely what the Nazis meant by the phrase triumph of the Will.)

I don't know Johnnie's motive for lying. All I know is that he did in fact lie, and that nothing he says henceforward will ever be trustworthy.

Second: Jonnikins maintains that Congresswoman Wilson committed some sort of affront when she listened in to Trump's speakerphone "condolence call" to the family of Sgt. La David Johnson. The call came in while they were en route to a memorial service. The family had a right to invite whomever they pleased to ride with them, and it's not as though they could have asked the president to call back later. Congresswoman Wilson is a longtime friend of the family (the friendship began well before she entered politics) and there is no earthly reason why she should not have been invited along.

The family is not saying that Wilson did anything wrong. They agree with her.

Third: Jonnikins himself was listening in (on Trump's end) without the family's knowledge. Johnnie, you're a damned hypocrite.

Fourth: Johnnie made a plea for the country to show respect for Gold Star families. Really? Tell me, Jonnikins: Why didn't you say one word against Trump's pal Roger Stone when Stone was spreading vicious falsehoods and conspiracy theories about Khizr Khan, the father of slain hero Humayun Khan?

When are you going to lambaste Roger, Jonnikins? Answer that, you damned hypocrite.

Fifth: Johnnie said that the sacredness of the Gold Star families ended during "the convention over the summer." Whose fault was that? Note that Johnnie's smarmy wording was cleverly designed to re-arrange the truth and to replace the actual past with a fantasized past. (The "triumph of the Will" theme reappears.) In reality, the Democrats treated the Khan family with respect bordering on reverence. It was Trump and his partners in paranoia who responded with lies, smears, character assassination and absurd conspiracy theories.

Johnnikins, you no longer have any honor. History will hate you. You cannot escape history.

Do you want to regain your honor, Johnnikins? Do you want historians to speak well of you? Do you want to regain a moral (not just legal) right to the title of General Kelly? Here's what you have to do:

1. Apologize.

2. Quit.

3. Tell everything you know about the Trump White House -- all the damning details.

4. If the Russians have something on you, take your lumps like a man.

Do those four things and you will once again be hailed as a hero. Until then, you're just Lyin' Johnnie, hypocrite extraordinaire.

PS: Yes, I'll go there: Johnnie, your son would be ashamed of you. If I were a member of your family, I'd spit in your lying face. You're a liar and a hypocrite, and your stars cannot protect you from the truth.

PPS: Sarah Hucakbee Sanders said that one must never criticize a general. Didn't Trump say that he "knew better" than the generals? Hasn't he often issued tweets critical of generals?