"Mad dog"Mattis next on his way out?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Jun 15, 2018.

  1. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    We still haven't figured out who wrote that NYT op-ed.
    Trump floated the idea last week that The Times perhaps made it up.



    “Let me tell you about leaks. I think a lot of leaks are not leaks, they’re made up by newspapers…. The media is very, very dishonest, beyond anything that anybody can understand. Now, even the letter written to the Times, there is a chance – I don’t say it’s a big chance – but there is a very good chance that it was written by the Times. […]

    “It could’ve been the New York Times wrote it, to be honest. They’re a very dishonest paper.”
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    I don’t say it’s a big chance – but there is a very good chance that it was written by the Times. :banghead:

     
    #11     Oct 14, 2018
  2. It ended with moving sleepy Tillerson out and moving Pompeo in.



    WINNING!!!!!!!!






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    #12     Oct 14, 2018
  3. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    hehe...I suppose it could've been Mattis, but knowing how paranoid Trump is, suspicion would be enough to get him shitcanned.
     
    #13     Oct 14, 2018
  4. General Mattis has done more for this country than trump and his family going back 10 generations. Trump is just an ungrateful fool.
     
    #14     Oct 14, 2018
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  5. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Had it not been for those darned bone spurs, General Trump would've been the best general in the history of humanity. To surpass the likes of Alexander, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar.
     
    #15     Oct 14, 2018
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  6. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    He does "know more than the General's do". :D
     
    #16     Oct 14, 2018


  7. Trump currently serves as Commander in Chief and outranks all the generals who report to him now. Yup, bone spurs and all.

    That's gotta be rough for ya.
     
    #17     Oct 14, 2018
  8. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/20/newest-security-worry-trump-without-mattis-868568

    Newest security worry: Trump without Mattis
    The Pentagon chief's widely expected departure is fueling anxiety among officials of both parties who have viewed him as a force for stability.

    National security leaders fear that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is on his way out — and that Donald Trump’s next Pentagon chief will be far more subservient to the president’s unilateral and bombastic whims.

    Mattis was instrumental in pulling back on Trump’s vow to “carpet bomb” ISIS or pull troops from Afghanistan. He moderated the U.S. military response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons and openly opposed Trump’s withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal.
     
    #18     Oct 20, 2018
  9. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...ries-slam-appalling-assault-on-capitol-2021-1
    'Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country': Trump's former defense secretaries condemn 'appalling' assault on Capitol
    • Former Trump administration defense secretaries Jim Mattis and Mark Esper issued strong statements condemning the pro-Trump mob that violently breached the US Capitol Wednesday.
    • "Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country," Mattis said in a statement.
    • "This afternoon's assault on the US Capitol was appalling and un-American. This is not how citizens of the world's greatest and oldest democracy behave," Esper said in a separate statement.
    • Other former senior defense officials also weighed in on the riots as well.
     
    #19     Jan 6, 2021
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