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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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KEYWORDS: bookdeals; guysnodgrass; maddogdreckmattis; mattis; snodgrass; trump
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To: FatherofFive

The Swamp is deep. Too much money there

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Big government = big money. The river of money flowing through DC is vast and deep. All the Swamp creatures are willing to do anything to protect their source of wealth.


81 posted on 10/25/2019 3:44:11 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: RummyChick

Virtue signaling.


82 posted on 10/25/2019 3:45:32 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: RummyChick

What a loser.


83 posted on 10/25/2019 3:49:24 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: CMailBag

Yep. Trump is nearly alone. He has revealed do much to us. Blind I was for decades.


84 posted on 10/25/2019 3:49:57 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Savage Rider

WE may need to tell Mattis to drink up, and pass it on to the rest of the DEEP STATE! We are covered up with Traitors posing as caring about our country!

God is clear: Ecclesiastes: 10:2 “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.”


85 posted on 10/25/2019 3:54:40 PM PDT by Ambrosia (Born in NC, then PA, NY,WV, NM, SC, and FL & back God/Freedom=Priority!)
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To: Savage Rider

Would you like a cherry with that


86 posted on 10/25/2019 4:02:57 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: CMailBag
"I’m starting to believe that Donald Trump is the only one in Washington who isn’t profiting off the never ending wars.

After finding out what's on in the Ukraine I believe the intelligence community is using America's power to run a shakedown operation.. The plan now is to put the whole thing all off on Trump...

87 posted on 10/25/2019 4:04:49 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: LongWayHome
Unfortunately looks like you're right. Mattis quitting abruptly and publicly then his frequent negative critiques of Trump's judgement is disappointing. Worse, he was a great morale booster for our neglected armed forces so what does this do to troop confidence in the CinC?
88 posted on 10/25/2019 4:23:29 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests)
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To: The Westerner

It’s mindboggling.


89 posted on 10/25/2019 4:44:22 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: AAABEST
This is the piece of s*** who made soldiers piss next to women and wanted taxpayers to pay to cut our warrior's dicks off.

Don't forget the "portable lactation units" for nursing mothers to pump during combat training. Or the camo maternity uniforms.

90 posted on 10/25/2019 4:58:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: RummyChick
September 2018:
Military Times: Trump Now Calls Mattis ‘Moderate Dog’
91 posted on 10/25/2019 5:02:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: RummyChick

Here’s your acid.


92 posted on 10/25/2019 5:52:09 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: RummyChick

Mattis was always a pussy, always protecting his career over the lives of soldiers, sailors, and airmen. He is a perfumed princess.


93 posted on 10/25/2019 7:11:56 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: DesertRhino

Mattpriss is NO Patton.


94 posted on 10/25/2019 7:14:37 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: AAABEST

I disliked the idiot the second I heard his nickname was “mad dog” yet he never served in combat and was known as an ‘intellectual’.


95 posted on 10/25/2019 7:15:18 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: RummyChick

As soon as McNoName gave his enthusiastic approval of Mattis, it should have been a red flag that this guy was their comrade.


96 posted on 10/25/2019 7:19:21 PM PDT by Right-wing Librarian
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To: RummyChick
ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to keep Trump from pulling the curtain back and revealing what has been going on for several decades in Washington.

Trump WILL prevail!

97 posted on 10/25/2019 9:17:28 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Savage Rider

I told folks here a while back Trump is no dummy. When you are a power house real estate/developer in the high priced, high stakes and high pressure world of the multi-million dollar world of high end NYC real estae you’re either smartter than God Almighty and tough as leather or you’re over by lunch time. Mattis was way out of his league with Trump.


98 posted on 10/26/2019 12:05:08 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Ambrosia

Indeed. Proverbs 11:29.


99 posted on 10/26/2019 12:08:47 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: RummyChick

WTF can’t these so called ADULT MEN STFU?? W hat kind of MILITRARY GUY YAKS SO MUCH?


100 posted on 10/26/2019 4:58:50 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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