Kelly Walks Back Comment That Trump Is ‘Embarrassed’ By Mueller Probe

US Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, commander, U.S. Southern Command listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2013, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on U.S. European Comm... US Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, commander, U.S. Southern Command listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2013, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on U.S. European Command, U.S. Northern Command, and U.S. Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2014. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) MORE LESS
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is backpeddling on how he described President Donald Trump’s feelings about the Russia probe.

During an interview with NPR on Thursday evening, Kelly said Trump was “somewhat embarrassed, frankly” about special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But he took it back on Friday.

After Trump’s announcement on drug price policy in the Rose Garden, Kelly told CNN that he was not doing an interview, but said “embarrassed” is not the word he word he wanted to use to describe the Russia probe. He told CNN “distracted” was a better descriptor.

 

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  1. Kelly told CNN that he was not doing an interview, but said “embarrassed” is not the word he word he wanted to use to describe the Russia probe. He told CNN “distracted” was a better descriptor.

    I doubt that the current occupant has anything approaching “embarrassment” in his short range of emotions.

    But I do believe that he is well beyond being distracted by the Russian probe to the point his golf scores are rising.

    But he has this foot wedge thing…

  2. Trump is never embarrassed.

    He is too busy being an embarrassment.

    By the way, it’s “backpedaling,” not “backpeddling.”

  3. Or “Kelly is back, peddling…”

  4. They only peddle up front in this administration.

    First you pay, then you get, er, “access.”

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