John Kelly, you have disappointed the nation.

John Kelly, you were one of the last people in the White House that I respected. Now you're just like all the rest of them: a big fat liar.

That was the short version. Here's the medium-length version.

I listened to MSNBC's "All In" on the radio yesterday. Chris Hayes is the host.

Chris Hayes played John Kelly's entire talk to the press, where the White House chief of staff told, in detail, the story of Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson's speech at the 2015 dedication of a new FBI building in Miramar, Florida. He told a convincing story about how she had spent her time at the podium taking credit for the building, and how she had personally gotten a $20 million commitment from then-President Barack Obama to build the building. According to Kelly, her whole speech was about herself and how great she was, especially for bringing the pork home. In his words, "... we were stunned." The gall of the woman's ego and self-promotion was beyond — well, beyond almost anybody in modern history, except perhaps Donald Trump.

Well, the Florida Sun Sentinel had dug up a videotape of that dedication ceremony, and All In had obtained a copy of it. So Chris Hayes played Congresswoman Wilson's speech, in its entirety. She told a story about how, four weeks before the dedication, the FBI had approached her and asked to have the building named after two FBI agents who had been killed in the line of duty. That literally takes an act of Congress, and so Wilson talked about how she had contacted the leadership of both the House and the Senate, and gotten that act of Congress through in record time. There was nothing "stunning" about it. She spent the rest of her speech praising the FBI, law enforcement and first responders in general, everyone involved in raising the building, and her colleagues in Congress for helping to get the building named.

She didn't say anything that John Kelly had accused her of. She bragged a bit about rushing that bill through Congress, but it was a fun story, and she gave credit to all of the other players.

As for the $20 million from President Obama, Wilson pointed out to reporters this week that the $20 million was appropriated by an act of Congress in 2009, and she didn't get elected to Congress until 2011.

Everything John Kelly said about her was a lie. Everything.

The long version? If I'm able to find a transcript of Kelly's words and one of Wilson's speech, I'll add them to this post so that you can read them for yourself.

UPDATE, JUNE 24, 2021: I still haven't found the transcript. But here's a Washington Post article from October 20, 2017, corroborating what I said.