[SteveH]

gates sounds like he wants to sanction taking trump out altogether

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/politics/robert-gates-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/

“When it comes to credibility problems, though, Donald Trump is in a league of his own,” Gates, a Republican who led the Defense Department under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Friday, adding that electing Trump is “too great a risk for America.”

“The world we confront is too perilous and too complex to have as president a man who believes he, and he alone, has all the answers and has no need to listen to anyone,” Gates wrote. “A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander in chief is too great a risk for America.”

[rfp1234]

“A thin-skinned, temperamental, shoot-from-the-hip and lip, uninformed commander in chief is too great a risk for America.”

Translation: he's not a golf-addicted deer in the headlights, who'll run to his bedroom to play cards with Reggie on the night of Benghazi and let adults make the tough decisions".

[bgill]

"When it comes to credibility problems, though, Donald Trump is in a league of his own," Gates

Hey, Gates, lets talk about your credibility problems.

[opus1]

In other words, Trump is not the quintessential company man that Gates himself represents.