🌱 Trump Offered Top FBI Job to John Kelly

President Trump offered John Kelly the job of the head of the FBI, the day after he fired James Comey, according to Michael Schmidt’s writes new book, Donald Trump v. The United States , Axios reports. “But the president added something else­—if he became FBI director, Trump told him, Kelly needed to be loyal to him, and only him.”

” * Kelly immediately realized the problem with Trump’s request for loyalty, and he pushed back on the president’s demand. Kelly said that he would be loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law, but he refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump.”