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- President Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, issued a broad rebuke of the president on Wednesday.
- Kelly broke with Trump over the president's firing of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the White House's former Ukraine expert who testified against the president as part of his impeachment inquiry after being subpoenaed by Congress.
- Kelly described what Vindman heard Trump tell Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their July 25 phone call last year as "an illegal order."
- "He did exactly what we teach them to do from cradle to grave," Kelly said of Vindman, according to The Atlantic. "He went and told his boss what he just heard."
- "We teach them: Don't follow an illegal order," Kelly said. "And if you're ever given one, you'll raise it to whoever gives it to you that this is an illegal order, and then tell your boss."
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President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, who served at the highest levels of the White House for 18 months, issued a broad rebuke of the president during remarks on Wednesday night.
Perhaps most notably, Kelly criticized Trump's firing of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an impeachment witness and former National Security Council aide, and defended Vindman's efforts to report Trump's pressure campaign in Ukraine up through the chain of command.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hope See Also: SEE ALSO: Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire primary, making him the new national frontrunner  |