Is that really an admission?

And how would the alleged admitter even know?

Fox Host Admits Trump Lied About Not Telling Gold Star Widow 'He Signed Up For This'

My wife the other day said something about Kelly admitting Trump did say it by explaining why he said it and attempting to justify saying it.

But I didn't see or hear anything like that.

Until just now.

The admission came during the same comments in which Kelly attacked the congresswoman repeatedly with no real justification, playing the hatchet man for Trump, telling vicious lies about her, and revealing himself to be in fact rather a Trumpist, personally.

Not quite the "responsible adult" of Democratic narration.

John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff whose son died in combat, defends president’s call to Gold Star widow

But Kelly also appeared to effectively confirm Wilson’s account by echoing some of the language she had described — an account that Trump had called “totally fabricated.”

Kelly said Trump’s message to Johnson was: “He knew what he was getting himself into, because he enlisted. There’s no reason to enlist. He enlisted. And he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be, with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken.”