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EXCLUSIVE: Defense secretary Jim Mattis said he would rather 'swallow acid' than let Donald Trump...
Dm ^ | 10/25/2019 | daniel bates

Posted on 10/25/2019 1:20:50 PM PDT by RummyChick

Former secretary of defense Jim Mattis told aides he would rather 'swallow acid' than allow Trump to throw a $50million 'Victory Parade', and said the president's summit with Putin was a display of the White House seeking 'instant gratification', a new book reveals.

Mattis, who was known as 'Mad Dog' during his career in the military, resigned in December 2018 following Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria.

The defense chief's former speechwriter Guy Snodgrass has detailed his clashes with the president in new book, Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon With Secretary Mattis, obtained by DailyMail.com ahead of its publication next week.

At one point Mattis was frank with a group of reporters about Trump telling them: 'I'm not trying to put lipstick on a pig for you,' retired Navy Cmdr. Guy Snodgrass writes.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 10/25/2019 1:20:50 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7613517/Anonymous-author-reveal-danger-President-Trump-poses-tell-book.html


2 posted on 10/25/2019 1:21:05 PM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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The Swamp is deep. Too much money there


3 posted on 10/25/2019 1:23:04 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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Mattis was another swamper out of his element. He thought he was smarter than the President. Whether it’s smarts or good instincts, this President got elected against a cheating, lying Dim machine and he’s done better than any President in my long life, even with one hand tied behind his back.


4 posted on 10/25/2019 1:25:06 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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Idiot sounds like he is already in acid.


5 posted on 10/25/2019 1:26:31 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: RummyChick

This is staged pys-ops folks.


6 posted on 10/25/2019 1:26:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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“Mattis, through his assistant, blasted the book’s author as showing ‘absence of character’ for writing it but does not dispute its accuracy”..fake news.


7 posted on 10/25/2019 1:27:09 PM PDT by hotsteppa
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Well that really changes my opinion of Mattis. I was planing on attending the parade. It wan’t “Trumps parade”. It was scheduled on the 100 th anniversary of the end of the First World War, and would have been a fitting tribute.


8 posted on 10/25/2019 1:27:13 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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“Allow”? Mattis is pretty full of himself. He’ll want to down some acid after seeing Trump’s victory parade.


9 posted on 10/25/2019 1:28:18 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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I would not trust any of 0bama’s generals. Real warriors are not good at kissing ass on Capitol Hill.


10 posted on 10/25/2019 1:29:30 PM PDT by forgotten man
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This August: Former defense secretary Jim Mattis rejoins General Dynamics board

“Former defense secretary Jim Mattis has been elected to the board of General Dynamics, the company announced after a vote on Wednesday, allowing him to reclaim a powerful position at the top of America’s defense industry.”

https://www.stripes.com/news/former-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-rejoins-general-dynamics-board-1.593572

Ike warned us about the military-industrial complex...


11 posted on 10/25/2019 1:30:13 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You are correct. This is a systematic, coordinated attack to get Trump out of office by any means necessary.


13 posted on 10/25/2019 1:30:34 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: FatherofFive

Read this earlier typical Deep State take on things. The President comes from the business world and things are done very differently there than in Washington. I understand what the President was doing maybe the writer needs to get back to the real world. The Deep State just don’t understand the average person and most likely never will. They want to spend billions on defense and send our kids to die in long drawn out conflicts. They are never held accountable for what they have been doing since Vietnam. Why would we listen to these bumbling idiots.


14 posted on 10/25/2019 1:31:21 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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Jim Mattis said he would rather 'swallow acid' P> We can help with that..............would he prefer Window Pane or Blue Dot?...............
15 posted on 10/25/2019 1:31:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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Mr. Trump, let’s get this right the second time around.

Compose your LOOOOOOONG list of people to fire and start executing it at 8AM on 1/21/2021.


16 posted on 10/25/2019 1:32:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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This just another traitorous Marine officer how embarrassing for this old Marine.


17 posted on 10/25/2019 1:32:06 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Savage Rider
this President got elected against a cheating, lying Dim machine

And don't forget the lying, cheating RINO machine. Pierre Delecto included

18 posted on 10/25/2019 1:32:45 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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I recall the cheers for Mattis so many people had.

It just goes to show that anyone who has been rewarded by the Deep State with positions and promotions should be suspect until they prove they're willing to help destroy the system that rules the government from behind the scenes.

19 posted on 10/25/2019 1:32:46 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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“Well that really changes my opinion of Mattis.”

Snodgrass, the self-promoting second-level Staffer is pleased.


20 posted on 10/25/2019 1:33:14 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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