Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
Posted on 04/29/2019 10:41:26 PM PDT by bitt
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis declined to carry out orders from President Trump or otherwise limited his options in various attempts to prevent tensions with North Korea, Iran and Syria from escalating, The New Yorker reported Monday, the latest account of Trump’s own officials trying to check his worst instincts.
"The president thinks out loud. Do you treat it like an order? Or do you treat it as part of a longer conversation? We treated it as part of a longer conversation," a former senior national security official told The New Yorker.
"We prevented a lot of bad things from happening."
In 2017, following a series of North Korean ballistic missile tests, Trump ordered the Pentagon to begin removing the spouses and children of military personnel from South Korea, where the U.S. military has a base. An administration official told the magazine that "Mattis just ignored" the order.
In another instance in the fall of 2017, as White House officials were planning a private meeting at Camp David to develop military options for a possible conflict with North Korea, Mattis allegedly stopped the gathering from happening. He ignored a request from then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster to send officers and planners, according to a former senior administration official.
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Hard to believe Trump had no trouble with treason.
Hard to believe there’s no slant to the article.
I dunno.
Giving the president advice is one thing.
Disobeying a direct order is a punishable offense.
For a military man running to the media and undermining your Commander In Chief with confidential insider information is a disgrace.
Lock ‘em up.
If they want to run things they should run for office.
Mattis has the right to ignore the president’s orders. And the president has the right to fire him.
what is the basis for his right to ignore orders?
Seems Mad Dog is reall a miniature poodle.
Mattis just ignored" the order.
Oh, so he admits THAT was an order.
Can't he still be court martialed?Do you treat it like an order? Or do you treat it as part of a longer conversation?
Well when you're not trying to be an asshole to your President...You ask.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
Mattis sucked. Just a big talker.
No, he does not possess a right to ignore orders. He has a DUTY to follow them or resign.
Remember when Bob Woodward wrote that Mattis said Trump had the understanding of a 5th or 6th grader?
yes
Just ask LTC Terry Lakin.
I fail to see how removing military families from a war zone, or asking military planners to attend a meeting, could be viewed as Trump’s “worst instincts”. Those actions sound completely reasonable.
Why is he coming out with this now? Was he in on efforts to overthrow the election as part of a 25th Amendment cabinet vote? Is he afraid that the Trump admin has a record of that and that is going to come out?
In another instance in the fall of 2017, as White House officials were planning a private meeting at Camp David to develop military options for a possible conflict with North Korea, Mattis allegedly stopped the gathering from happening.
Obstructing an elected President from information critical
to this nation’s foreign policy should be criminal!!!
Mattis also ignored orders on trannies.
I don’t think much of mattis. It is good that he and tillerson are both gone. They were too full of themselves to take orders from President Trump.
Ditto
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