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Mattis told Coats Trump is 'dangerous,' 'unfit': Woodward book
The Hill ^ | 9-9-20 | TAL AXELROD

Posted on 09/09/2020 9:38:44 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis told then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats that President Trump was “dangerous” and “unfit,” according to excerpts from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book “Rage.”

Mattis, who left the White House at the end of 2018 over differences on defense strategy with the president, warned Coats that “there may come a time when we have to take collective action” against Trump, according to excerpts of the Woodward book reported upon by The Washington Post,

The Post did not say if Woodward’s book clarified what kind of “collective action” Mattis was referencing.......

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: District of Columbia
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Collective action could be mass resignation and protest, it could be a coup. It is good that he left.
1 posted on 09/09/2020 9:38:44 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Anyone who expects an objective review from Axelrod or The Hill is playing with themselves.


2 posted on 09/09/2020 9:51:12 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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“Mattis told Coats Trump is ‘dangerous,’ ‘unfit’: Woodward book”

well, that’s about 3rd or 4th hand by the time that made it into the book ... has anyone asked mattis to confirm or deny that he made the statement?


3 posted on 09/09/2020 9:52:27 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Isn’t Dan Coates an Obama holdover or an I thinking of Ben Rhoades?


4 posted on 09/09/2020 9:52:39 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Next up from The Hole: Trump Farts In Bed!

I don’t think they’re that far away from such contrivances.


5 posted on 09/09/2020 9:55:19 PM PDT by W. (What, me worry?)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

WTF ever, losers

Trump is ending our nonsense involvement in idiotic wars...


6 posted on 09/09/2020 10:02:33 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Trump farts in bed?

Hell, I thought that was only me.../s


7 posted on 09/09/2020 10:04:33 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This is a perfect example of how brilliant the Founders were to place control of the military in civilian hands. When it comes to dangerous people I think Mattis fits that category. Continual war is how generals keep their jobs and advance through the ranks. His remark about “collective action” can be interpreted to mean sedition.


8 posted on 09/09/2020 10:12:36 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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Lindsey Graham is close with Mattis, and Lindsey Graham got Woodward in the White House.


9 posted on 09/09/2020 10:13:23 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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10 posted on 09/09/2020 10:14:43 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: Vendome

It’s been FOUR YEARS!!!!

If you are dangerous and unfit...results happen fast!

Trust me.. :)

I wasn’t always this sane.

How many days has he had to get us into a HUGE conflict for no reason or to irrationally launch nukes?

A lot.

How do they explain that away?


11 posted on 09/09/2020 10:17:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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Zactly


12 posted on 09/09/2020 10:21:37 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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“there may come a time when we have to take collective action”

The US has ruled the world for almost a century.
That many foreign and international bodies have inserted themselves into our affairs is only to be expected.
Shame they’ve taken over our media so thoroughly.


13 posted on 09/09/2020 10:22:18 PM PDT by mrsmith (`(US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: dp0622

The whole reason they feel he is unfit IS BECAUSE he has NOT gotten into every damn conflict around!! They were all SCREAMING to get us into Venezuela AND Syria they feel he is unfit because he is NOT a NEOCON!, These ASSHATS have never seen a war they didn’t like!!! I would love to see ALL of their bank accounts just to see if they have hidden funds from these government contractors!!


14 posted on 09/09/2020 10:24:52 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Woodward has no credibility in light of Dr. Fausi contradicting his other claims about Trump on Covid19.

I like the alternate reality from the movie The Watchmen where Woodward was shot dead by The Comedian.


15 posted on 09/09/2020 10:25:25 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Vendome

:)


16 posted on 09/09/2020 10:26:01 PM PDT by W. (What, me worry?)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

What puzzles me is that Trump gave Woodward extensive interviews for the book. Trump oughta know who Woodward is or at least one of his underlings should have. I really don’t understand some of the moves his team makes sometimes. At times its like they’re trying to lose.


17 posted on 09/09/2020 10:26:41 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: Anti-Bubba182

If Mattis or anyone of the other second hand accounts feel so strongly about Trump they need to come out and say so loudly and clearly.


18 posted on 09/09/2020 10:28:30 PM PDT by jarwulf
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Mattis is a "lifelong" bachelor. He doesn't associate with women. He is bent like Bill Clinton's ding dong.
 
19 posted on 09/09/2020 10:33:00 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Trump is the danger we needed....to the globalist order


20 posted on 09/09/2020 10:34:53 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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