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Over a Barrel

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a member of the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White
House, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Charges, insults fly after Trump aide assails congresswoman

By JON LEMIRE A Trump spokeswoman as it lobbed fresh vilification nounced Wilson’s criticism keeping the focus on the
JILL COLVIN said it was “inappropriate” at Florida Rep. Frederica of Trump — and added his fallen agents for which it
Associated Press to question Kelly in light of Wilson. condemnation of past re- was named. Video of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The his stature as a retired four- She kept the barbed ex- marks she had made at a speech contradicted his
White House on Friday star general. changes going, adding a Miami event. recollection.
rushed to defend chief of The administration also in- new element by suggesting Kelly said she delivered Wilson, in an interview Fri-
staff John Kelly after he mis- sisted it’s long past time to a racial context. a 2015 speech at an FBI day with The New York
characterized the remarks end the political squab- Taking cues from a presi- field office dedication in Times, brought race into
of a Democratic congress- bling and insult trading dent who hates to back which she “talked about the dispute.
woman and called her over President Donald down, the administration how she was instrumental
an “empty barrel” making Trump’s compassion for staunchly defended Kelly, in getting the funding for Continued on Page 3
noise. America’s war dead, even who a day before had de- that building,” rather than