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Trump Pentagon nominee Gen. Tata apologizes in letter to Senate for offensive tweets
The Washington Examiner ^ | today | Rob Crilly

Posted on 06/19/2020 11:07:18 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas

President Trump’s nominee for the Pentagon’s top policy job apologized in a letter to the Senate on Friday for inflammatory tweets made two years ago in which he made derogatory remarks about Islam, President Barack Obama, and other leading Democrats.

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“Out of the 8,800 tweets I authored and hundreds of speeches I have given, the few misstatements on Twitter, while grievous, are not indicative of who I am,” he wrote. “They are an aberration in a four-decade thread of faithful public service.”...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthonytata; apologize; twitter
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He simply should have used the STANDARD LIBERAL's apology:

"I am sorry if my statement offended anybody"

It's WAR, General, give it back to them times ten!

1 posted on 06/19/2020 11:07:18 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: Oscar in Batangas

There was NOTHING in his earlier statement of OPINION to apologize over!


2 posted on 06/19/2020 11:09:36 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

He said something unflattering about Islam? And apologized for it? Sounds like he needs a spine transplant.


3 posted on 06/19/2020 11:09:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Oscar in Batangas
I think this fellow is retired and lives in Fayetteville, NC. If he is the same person I think he is DJT needs to keep him on a short leash. He is considered a lose cannon in FV.
4 posted on 06/19/2020 11:13:11 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

>> tweets made two years ago in which he made derogatory remarks about Islam, President Barack Obama, and other leading Democrats.

2 years ago it was FORMER president Obama.

Meanwhile there are thousands in the US Government today who form Hillary Clinton’s “resistance” movement trying to actively subvert the Trump Administration. Can’t have it both way, Democrats. Nothing wrong in him expressing his views with that double-standard at play.


5 posted on 06/19/2020 11:14:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: DesertRhino

In O’Bungler’s political world, you didn’t get very far with a spine made of Patton Steel. His probably needs a bit of re-annealing and forging now that his present CinC has a new level of excellence to compare against.


6 posted on 06/19/2020 11:14:10 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Pull the nomination. We don’t need another kneeler.


7 posted on 06/19/2020 11:14:13 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Oscar in Batangas

He should have doubled down.


8 posted on 06/19/2020 11:17:41 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: a fool in paradise

I’ll give the writer a pass on that.
I have never referred to Ronald Reagan as “Former” President Reagan. Probably will stick to the same protocol when President Trump ultimately departs...(sometime around 2050 or so?)


9 posted on 06/19/2020 11:17:57 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

>>However, that support began to unravel when CNN unearthed his Twitter activity two days after his nomination.
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>>In 2018, he had lashed out at the media and prominent Democrats, including California Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi. Waters, he said, was a “vicious race baiting racist.”
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>>And he used a hashtag to suggest that CNN anchor Don Lemon was on “the liberal plantation.”

CNN didn’t like the assertion that Red Ted Turner’s company is “the liberal plantation” and went on a scorched Earth campaign against him.

And Maxine Waters is an out and out Marxist who wants to nationalize the oil industry. She’s said so herself.


10 posted on 06/19/2020 11:18:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Cuck


11 posted on 06/19/2020 11:19:04 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Point being that Obama was not serving this nation when this General made his tweet. He was out of office and no longer Commander in Chief.


12 posted on 06/19/2020 11:19:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“Hell yeah I wrote that and here’s why...”


13 posted on 06/19/2020 11:46:50 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: DesertRhino

He’s had too much to think

I think


14 posted on 06/19/2020 11:47:21 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

If you can’t apologize for your error with specifics you are no longer eligible

If you cant defend with reason you are no longer eligible


15 posted on 06/19/2020 11:52:49 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Remember free speech? That used to be a thing, right?


16 posted on 06/20/2020 1:27:47 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (HOw about Washington DC?)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

>> derogatory remarks about Islam

Islam is a war plan.

And no doubt Mohammed would accept that as truth.

I don’t say it often, but I’ll say it once again: Mohammed was perhaps the greatest warrior known to mankind.


17 posted on 06/20/2020 1:31:49 AM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Altura Ct.

I remember free speech well in my Civics Class (Jr Year, 1964)
Maybe saw some obscure reference to it in my kids’ books
Doubt that it’s even mentioned in my grand-kids’ classes

T’was but in the twinkling of an eye .. like so many other lamentable situations we have around us today


18 posted on 06/20/2020 2:46:09 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Gene Eric

I knew we were in trouble culturally when Navy ordinance men caught hell for chalking “Happy Ramadan” on bombs being loaded onto strike aircraft in Gulf War I & II

As if the terrorists might have been offended in the one or two microseconds before the bomb scattered their sorry arses all over the desert!


19 posted on 06/20/2020 2:54:02 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


20 posted on 06/20/2020 3:52:14 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) 2028!)
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