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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He’s gone full Karen mode. Never go full Karen mode.
I told my friends yesterday when I heard Mullens crying like a baby that this was coming. Along with Hayden, they are setting up the military to say they have lost confidence in the Commander in Chief. That is next.
I am beginning to think the wrong people are rioting. Civil War 2?
“Has this Mr. Mattis ever received a paycheck that wasn’t directly from the Government (U.S. Taxpayer) or indirectly through a company that bills the Government (U.S. Taxpayer)?...”
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I don’t know how much he was paid but he was a board member on Theranos (you know, the “revolutionary blood test” grifters).
F off, Mattis!! What a cowardly backstabber you have turned out to be!!
My Lord.. is there going to be a hard coup from within? This is getting more and more insane.
Just another @sshole disgruntled former employee......
Actually, that has always been the policy (and still is) in all IC buildings.
Mad Dog, my ass. He’s dogshit.
I thought Corona was the deep state last gasp before the 2020 election. I was wrong, they are even more on the attack now.
It never ends. Amazing what Trump has had to endure.
Most US generals have as little political understanding as the average college sophomore. Mattis falls below even that low mark.
This is sedition. Mattis is encouraging the military to refuse to follow the orders of the CIC.
Trump should fire Esper immediately and make that ex acting Navy Secretary acting SECDEF. The guy who was fired over the Corona boat hysteria. He’s the only one who has shown any gumption at all to engage the swampers there. And no doubt that is why they wanted him gone.
Yeah, a four or five star MORON. How about the Democrats for four straight years didn’t try to unite the country but silently tried to pull a coup. Where the Hell is Mattis’ brain? MIA, no doubt!
Who in the wide, wide world of sports is he kidding? Maybe he should look up such things as "forensic detectives" and "money trails."
Most of these folks may be genuinely peaceful, but he's really kidding himself if he doesn't think this Bonfire of the Cities is an organized insurrection!
He was once a truly honorable man and a brave patriot who quite properly looked down upon hippie-dippie war protestors. But now, perhaps he's better off helping out Joe Biden in the basement.
Yes, an idiot and endless war supporter, who Pres. Trump made Secretary of Defense. Yet another abysmal appointment.
I think the coup is coming. They are not going to allow Trump to win reelection. Military leaders and former presidents Democrat and Republican are sounding the call.
And it’s not over a black man dying, they could care less about that. Their whole world is crumbling and the truth about their treason is coming out.
If this is true, I mean its from The Atlantic, but if its true Mattis just destroyed his once stellar career.
Doubtful. Go have a peak at twitter. Mattis is the toast of the glitterati and swamp right now for attacking POTUS. He probably can have his pick of no work BOD “jobs” right about now, etc.
Oh, yeah, peachy. Every time a GOP wave election occurred, the riots, run from the White House, would have gone on for an age!
He was once a great man, IMO, but he fell, and fell hard at that!
‘Chaos Six’ has taken leave of his senses. So sad when someone who used to stand up for his country goes off the rails.
His new callsign: “S**thead Six’.
He is OFF the reservation, and he’s not ever coming back our way.
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