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Mattis Expected to Be Tapped by President Hillary Clinton. He Got Trump Instead.
Daily Beast ^ | 12.21.2018 | Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng

Posted on 12/24/2018 7:22:55 PM PST by libh8er

[The outgoing defense secretary had a good rapport with the 2016 Democratic nominee. Not so much with the president he ultimately worked for.]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, James Mattis predicted that he would be courted to serve in a Hillary Clinton administration in the likelihood that she would win the presidency. Instead, Mattis ended up working nearly two years as Secretary of Defense for Donald Trump, a president who routinely undermined his own national security team and would mock Mattis by calling him a “Democrat” or “Moderate Dog.”

Mattis' resignation on Thursday, though abrupt, came as no surprise to those who knew him and had worked alongside him in the Pentagon.

In a series of meetings with colleagues at the beginning of the administration, Mattis said he was originally surprised to get a call from the Trump team asking him to take the post of defense secretary, according to two sources with who attended those meetings. He told several people that had Clinton won the election, he thought he would have agreed to serve on her team.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillaryclinton; jamesmattis; mattis; moderatedog; trump
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To: Ceebass
I never got why Trump was spending so much time on stuff like getting Carrier to keep about 1400 jobs instead of staffing a govt with MAGA tigers.

He probably assumed that MAGA people would show up instead of deep staters. He has a small inner circle that he trusts, and he ended up relying on people like Sessions.

41 posted on 12/25/2018 5:19:11 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Alberta's Child

98-1 Kirsten Gillibrand voted no and Jeff Sessions didn’t vote.


42 posted on 12/25/2018 5:34:35 AM PST by jonsie
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To: jonsie

When schumer votes for your SecDef it can’t be good.


43 posted on 12/25/2018 6:06:01 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

Liberalism can infect even such as “Mad Dog” mattis. Liberalism destroys all it touches.


44 posted on 12/25/2018 7:58:39 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: libh8er

“As reported in Bob Woodward’s book FEAR earlier this year, Mattis even took it upon himself to actively ignore an order from President Trump to have Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad assassinated. “Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in,” Trump reportedly exclaimed to Mattis after a chemical attack on civilians in Khan Sheikhoun.”

Wasn’t keeping Bashar al-Assad in power what this Syrian war was all about? Maybe removing the reason would end the nonsense. On the other hand, the ME being what it is, the Syrians would just end up with another murdering strong man as president & there’d be another civil war a little further on.


45 posted on 12/25/2018 8:42:07 AM PST by Twotone
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To: deks

You don’t know the rules? Keep your ‘tagline letter’ comments off the general forum please.
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?Where does it say a letter is a comments ?!??? whatever


46 posted on 12/25/2018 10:20:19 AM PST by PraiseTheLord (.Q.)
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To: PraiseTheLord

Re: “But but *someone* or some *letter* gave the impression he is involved with the Gitmo MilTribunals ?!”

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Gitmo military tribunals are “17th letter” conspiracy theory. When you say “some *letter*” in your comment are you not referring to the letter in your tagline? If you are, then your comment belongs on the designated Chat/Conspiracy thread provided by the site owner for it.


47 posted on 12/25/2018 1:08:01 PM PST by deks
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To: deks

Can’t kill leaders. It’s the law.


48 posted on 12/25/2018 6:37:56 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: libh8er
Donald Trump... would mock Mattis by calling him... “Moderate Dog.”

So many LOLs!

49 posted on 12/25/2018 8:54:24 PM PST by Albion Wilde ( "It's a disgrace what's happening in our country; other than that, a very merry Christmas!"--DJT)
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