Posted on 06/03/2020 3:36:10 PM PDT by McGruff
James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens.
“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” Mattis writes. “The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.” He goes on, “We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”
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So he’s fine with businesses burning to the ground and police officers getting shot in the head..well Ok then good to know
And it’s A-OK for Biden to use George Floyd to fundraise
I’m mildly surprised Mattis has kept his mouth shut this long.
Obama was a uniter? Who knew?
Once again, Mattis proves what I have been saying about him for three and a half years:
He is a Deep State, Globalist, 0bamanite Perfumed Prince who Trump should have never hired.
Leftists are orgasmic over this Mattis statement on twitter.
Naturally, the Mattis Fan Club will yet again excuse his pathetic undermining of POTUS. Or maybe they’ll just go AWOL this time like Mattis has done here.
The Enemies Within are Shocking. Deep State, NWO, Establishment War Mongers are Uniting against the Most Uniting POTUS of our lifetime. These people know that.. they are AFRAID of us truly being United. VERY DISAPPOINTING.. VERY DISTURBING. We are at WAR against DECEPTICONS.
PING !
Mattis, you just exposed yourself as either ignorant, socialist deep stater or both.
The cockroaches are sure coming out.
A modern resident of USA.
DC is the biggest threat to Constitution that I can think of. Because DC is already operating so far away for USConstitution that they think current DC is operating constitutionally.
That’s more the 90 degrees off course, DC.
This “DIVISIVE” talk is the same BS they say about every conservative because to them divisive = disagreeing with their total control of everything and ideas. the left does not think that legit opposition to them should exist
...who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president.
Oh really? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=mattis
As I just wrote on a Mark Esper thread: All of these people in DC really suck! Mattis is another political phony. Another giant disappointment, right up there with Trey ‘Goldilocks’ Gowdy!! I am so sick of all these fing people!!
From 2008 to 2016, were you, GEN Mattis, asleep on watch?
Dereliction of Duty is a UCMJ offense for anyone in the ranks. But not for an ex-Marine who enters politics, evidently.
Are you applying for the Murtha Chair of Policy Matters in Congress?
Someone explain to me why each and every veteran who achieves high public office goes hard Left?
It’s amazing that Mattis does not recognize that we are in the middle of an insurrection that has just turned into an armed insurrection. Most of the insurrectionists are American Citizens and are burrowed into every element of our government. Mattis may be one of them.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,”
I guess Lincoln united us, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and a devastation that we’re still recovering from, a century and a half later. Maybe Mattis is looking for something like that?
Or maybe he’s looking for Obama’s style of uniting us, where over half the country is told to be perpetually ashamed of itself, and all of us are supposed to be ashamed of our history, heritage and principles.
And now we know why Trump got rid of him. Part of the swamp.
Allow me to translate: attention Joe Biden, I need a job if you win.
Matt is has turned out to be part of the Coup Cabal
Mattis Seditionist - bump for later...…...
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