Kelly also suggested ‘the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War’.Īnd with these words, President Donald Trump’s second-in-command only deepened the divide in this country about slavery.īoston-born Kelly made the remarks, perhaps unsurprisingly, on Laura Ingraham’s new Fox News show on 30 October. Nobody is more in need of a queer history lesson on the Civil War than White House chief of staff John Kelly who recently described Confederate General Robert E Lee as ‘an honourable man’.
