{"id":97197,"date":"2017-10-20T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/white-house-doubles-down-on-john-kellys-empty-barrel-slam-all-hat-no-cattle.html"},"modified":"2017-10-20T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:32:33","slug":"white-house-doubles-down-on-john-kellys-empty-barrel-slam-all-hat-no-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/white-house-doubles-down-on-john-kellys-empty-barrel-slam-all-hat-no-cattle.html","title":{"rendered":"White House doubles down on John Kelly\u2019s ’empty barrel’ slam: ‘All hat, no cattle’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sanders defends Kelly’s remarks about Rep. Wilson<\/a><\/h4>\n

White House press secretary responds to a reporter’s question.<\/p>\n

The White House on Friday stood by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly\u2019s criticism of Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson as an “empty barrel” even as the Democratic lawmaker says he misstated her past comments.<\/p>\n

Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Kelly \u201cabsolutely\u201d stands by his slam.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Gen. Kelly pointed out, if\u00a0you’re able to make a sacred act\u00a0like honoring American heroes\u00a0all about yourself, you\u2019re an empty\u00a0barrel,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cIf you don’t understand that\u00a0reference, I will put it a little\u00a0bit more simply as we say in\u00a0the South, \u2018all hat, no cattle.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Kelly, during an emotional appearance<\/a> in the White House press room, addressed the recent controversy involving President Trump\u2019s phone call to the family of an army soldier killed in Niger. Wilson has accused Trump of offending the family with his comments and Kelly said it was inappropriate for the lawmaker to listen in on the call.<\/p>\n

During his remarks, Kelly also criticized Wilson by recalling her comments during the 2015 dedication of a FBI field office in Miramar, Florida.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0Wilson \u201ctalked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call, he gave the money, the $20 million, to build the building, and she sat down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Kelly: \u201cAnd we were stunned, stunned that she’d done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.”<\/p>\n

CLINTON PITBULL, MEDIA ATTACK KELLY AFTER HE DEFENDS TRUMP CONDOLENCE CALL<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Wilson responded to Kelly’s remarks by calling it a \u201clie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson claimed that one of Kelly\u2019s terms for her \u2013 an empty barrel \u2013 was \u201cracist,\u201d even though she also said she hadn\u2019t heard of an empty barrel before.<\/p>\n

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The Democrat said she wasn\u2019t in the House when the funding was secured, though she was in Congress during the 2015 dedication.<\/p>\n

Video of that event released Friday by a Florida newspaper shows Wilson did not talk about the building\u2019s funding, but did talk up her own efforts getting legislation passed naming the building after the fallen agents.<\/p>\n

Further, Wilson claimed that one of Kelly\u2019s terms for her \u2013 an empty barrel \u2013 was \u201cracist,\u201d even though she also said she hadn\u2019t heard of an empty barrel before.<\/p>\n


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Pressed on the matter during Friday\u2019s press briefing, Sanders said Kelly was \u201cstunned that Rep. Wilson made\u00a0comments at a building\u00a0dedication honoring slain FBI agents\u00a0about her own actions in\u00a0Congress, including lobbying\u00a0former President Obama on\u00a0legislation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking to a reporter, she said, \u201cIf you want to go after Gen.\u00a0Kelly, that’s up to you, but I\u00a0think if you want to get into a\u00a0debate with a four-star Marine\u00a0general, I think that’s\u00a0something highly inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sanders defends Kelly’s remarks about Rep. Wilson White House press secretary responds to a reporter’s question. The White House on Friday stood by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly\u2019s criticism of Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson as an “empty barrel” even as the Democratic lawmaker says he misstated her past comments. Sarah Sanders, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-97197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}