WaPo's Eugene Robinson, MoveOn's Karine Jean-Pierre, Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude and former DOJ spokesman Matt Miller on Trump’s former Secretary of Defense speaking out in a new book about leadership with veiled criticisms at his former boss
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Former Defense Secretary James Norman Mattis Breaks His Silence | Deadline | MSNBC
Hold the line… I can only hope that we can.
You cant even hold your groceries you weak hoe
@Travis Davis crack head
@Josie Fox Trump called himself an “environmentalist” at the G7.
https://youtu.be/gNjfrNpTmJs
@truerealityscott you will have to fight for that adolp;h. Are you willing t o die for that. I am to stop you. How about it goosestepper are you willing to die for y o ur fascist wo r l d. Bring it you traitor o us cockroach.
Trump is not a leader nor the president. He is an un-indicted co-conspirator guilty of obstruction. I look forward to his indictment 😁
Looking forward to trials about treason myself.
TRUMP 2020
Biggus Dickus if trump doesn’t win then we’re doomed
Welcome to the right side of history.
I know you meant the wrong alt-right idiocy!
Yes of he speaks subtly or Plainly, at least he is speaking. And he resigned on a point of principle.for the safety of our allies and well as the troops so he deserves credit for his actions as well as his words.
Our war crimes are the right side of history now?
I’m diagnosing you with a case of Trump derangement syndrome lol
Trump has been out of touch with reality since before ’16…His reality is what serves him is all that matters.
The General has credentials, smarts, leadership experience and great heart and soul. # trump is a buffoon
truerealityscott it is on most peoples minds. Except that DT is a very sick man. He truly is demented. The republicans are the true traitors and need to face a judge and jury. Treason
And the chosen draft dodging coward.is the enemy of the people.
@Sharon Bodimeade spot on
Well the General got rolled in a street fight. The General got took on Three-Card Monte. The General doesn’t know tactics, the media, and technology to effectively fight back against Trump. (Unless, he doesn’t want to).
@Kristin Kulman The truth will always come out and it is the enemy of Trump and his team of merry bandits.
Draft dodger trump doesn’t like it 🤣
@Dave Schultz ha haha get back on your meds
@Lyle Benzo Nope. Drumph’s a repub.
Charlie Battery 2nd of the 31st Field Artillery “Big Guns”(The King Of Battle Follow Me) 101st Airborne Air Assault Division Screamin Eagles Ft Campbell Kentucky.
Mike Artillery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYJagbbilEU&feature=share
Agreed..too much silence from those former officials who should be denouncing a dangerous trump.
@Robert Kleiman I am speaking of socialist democracy. We have been implementing their ideas for years.
@Robert Kleiman there, their, they’re
@joye ottwell I’ve already looked it up , what your reading is a revisionist account of socialism as to make you turn against the system we have and to glorify socialism . Again I asked what you belive socialism is and what countries you belive are socialist and run under the doctrine of socialism. I have a feeling I know and that’s why you belive socialism is good. I can guarantee that what countries you think are socialist are not in fact governed like a socialist government would run a country . Do you understand liberals all over the world have been revising history ever since the atrocities that were committed on the jews by a socialist dictator and goverment . Couldn’t have you sheep knowing what real socialism looks like who knowingly would vote for there own demise or enslavement.
@Ken Shaw You have posted a very serious and troubling comment. Very disturbing. I was aware that Russia tried to interfere in our midterms and that our US Cyber Command shut down Russia’s IRA. https://investigaterussia.org/media/2019-03-14/russia-attempted-2018-interference
https://investigaterussia.org/media/2019-02-26/us-cyber-operation-protected-midterms
l was not aware, however, of them using Ransomware type attacks to lock voter rolls. I will look into that.
I have read articles about Trump’s possible reactions to losing the election next year. Every article I’ve read predicts that he will implicitly call for violence in the same way that he implicitly called for his rally goers to shout “send her back” ….and then blamed it on his base.
I am also much aware of the likelihood….the probability…. of people taking to the streets if this man has another Russia-inspired “win”.
We are in as perilous a situation now as we were during the American Revolution. Perhaps even more so. Russia has declared war on the United States….cyber war but war all the same…. and our president, his party and between 35% – 40% of the population either wittingly or unwittingly support our enemy.
Our system of government provides for the military be governed by civilian authority. Our military recently had to circumvent the authority of that civilian authority, the president, in order to install malware in Russia’s power grid. In other words, our military had to do a small mutiny in order to protect our country.
There is no debate, there is no question about it. Our president is an American traitor.
Thank you for your comment with this new information, troubling though it is. I fear that this will not end well.
Scary! When someone like him is telling our soldiers to hold the line til we get back to our America! Simply scary! Where the heck are the Republicans? Shameful!
@ROYLFRSHNESS Mattis said Nation with allies thrive. Nations without allies wither. Sound like he disappointed in the current GOP president actions toward traditional allies. That Conservative need to restore the GOP, otherwise it could be replace by a different conservative party. The GOP left tarnished for history
You dems are so easily persuaded
https://youtu.be/gNjfrNpTmJs
Hazel McCloy Merely read what current dem office holders say. The core is not freedom and liberty, its Stalinism. Governt control of nearly every thing. 45 is the patriot standing in the way of the modern Stalinist.
Tim D Wrong. The dems are working very hard to destroy the 2a, a foundational Stalinist precept.
Mattis’ silence was inexcusable! Indeed, silence on the part of any of our elected representatives on Donald Trump’s abominable behavior is totally inexcusable! And, ALL of those who held their tongues, rather than taking action against the orange monster, are without excuse!
Orange man bad
so you’re racist against orange people?
Richard Owens: While you are working for the man, you can’t publicly smear him. You wouldn’t do that to your boss while you are trying to contribute to the success of the company, would you? Your point becomes valid the day after you resign from your company, though. Mattis has let a lot of time pass and now presents this “subtle” if stinging criticism of the “polemicist” in-Chief after letting the country sink further and further since he left the administration. There may also be the matter of signed, sworn agreements not to talk about what officials saw and heard when serving in the Admin, even after they leave. Mind you, someone as smart as Mattis should have asked himself if signing such an agreement was wise before agreeing to serve. Generally speaking, however, I agree that there is something very wrong with these people, and that includes Republican lawmakers who keep their mouths shut in public until they decide to quit Congress. If they all ganged up on Trump, who is at heart a weakling, and were true to their conservative principles (that they apparently don’t have, after all), the lawmakers elected individually by their constituents , not appointed by Trump, and former Trump officials no longer beholden to him, he would either change the way he does business or be completely emasculated as president. Congress would run the country. Which is what the Founders envisioned. Congress makes the laws for the nation and the president’s job is to execute them, not, as so many people say, “run the country”. That is absolutely NOT his job.
@Florida Crypto R Leaders turn tides. They don’t wait for the tide to come in, and then ride out on a wave. They create the wave. In that sense, Trump is/was a leader. He convinced 63 million people to upend the system, to spit in the face of the system and all the accoutrements of it, including facts, logic, experts and their expertise. Trump didn’t tell the American people, just hang in there until some future date when the good stuff would start to happen. The problem is that Trump leads in a destructive direction towards chaos. Mattis seems to be a follower, a technocrat, an adviser (if only Trump would take advice). Bernie is a leader. Warren is a leader. Not sure if Biden and Buttigieg are leaders. Quite sure Gillibrand isn’t. (She belongs representing people in the Senate, where she is, not in an executive position, and she’s right to have made the recent decision she did.) Ditto Bennet. Not sure about Harris or Beto. Anyway, everyone can have different opinions on who among the Dems has the best leadership qualities, but Mattis wouldn’t be at the top of the list were he a Democrat.
@Gnirol Namlerf I agree with much of what you say. But, every last one of them swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. And, they are ALL servants of the PEOPLE first and not the President! Refusing to follow orders that are antithetical to the Constitution should not only be permitted, but required of ALL public servants!
#45 is no LEADER…..zero leadership skills.
chris owens what a god… I love Trump, he is growing the economy getting the border wall and so much. Especially that border wall will stop lots of crimes in the U.S. and drugs. Less guns on the streets less drugs more education.
@chris owens yeah, marched them to bankruptcy. Some Jim Dandy so-called leader.
Gregory Lang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYJagbbilEU&feature=share
Matt Miller is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT about the mild rebuke by Mattis of our insane and evil president. He has the respect and clout of many people of both sides of the aisle, so in my view a major failure not to speak up when our democracy is on the line. Thanks to Matt Miller for pushing back on this point.
Not only should Mattis call out Trump in no uncertain terms, but every single sycophant in the senate that enables him. When one and a half branches of government (SCOTUS and the senate) no longer hold checks and balances on the executive, our democracy is done.
Jay Zenitram I agree, Trump is bad himself but his enablers are the ones keeping this moron in power and will ALWAYS defend him, no matter how ridiculous
I think Gen. Mattis was in a precarious situation sorta like how Obama was at the end of his last term and how to handle the Russians messing with the election. Had Gen. Mattis stood up and said what he most likely wanted to, who knows what our current world would look like if trump had any other one of his sycophants controlling that position during that pivotal transition?
Everybody with a functioning brain knows Trump is unfit to be president.
https://youtu.be/gNjfrNpTmJs
It’s obvious he has problems. But the left wing is much, much worse. Totalitarian at best.
@M Perkins Posted where? How about you just back up your assertions yourself. Examples of sedition, treason and subversion please.
One wonders if the Orange Nazi Turd will even pick up on the fact that the general’s comments referred to him.
Seriously seek professional help or open a book and find out what Nazis did national socialis
Probably not.
@Bret H that’s right bret. And tha fascist dems are following th eir plan. Get a degree not just a book. Then you c a n match my level.child.
Agreed with Matt Miller. Trump should have been hauled out of the Oval Office in chains.
signalfire6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYJagbbilEU&feature=share
It’s up to new blood, all our politicians are dated.
@Mauricio H well stated
@Mauricio H So true, Trumpism (MeFirstism, antiGlobalism? Don’t know what to call it.) is spreading to governments, like a virus, all over the world, but it started in the U.S.
@Sparky’s Space You are so right!!! Unfortunately for all of us, the trump virus is spreading….. It brings the worst out weak individuals.
Term limits needed.
Don’t you think he should have done it when he was on the ship
Money is never able to buy Happiness, Intelligence , and Truth….
Oddly Fox News isn’t covering this. Wonder why? 🤔
Matt Miller is correct, people need to speak up and stop being selfish.
Easier said than done i agrea but at the cost of your own life not many can do that
Or scared, Trump and his enablers are known to make your life difficult, using their high position and power in this government, Mafia style
RIGHT, because _what’s a PENSION, anyway?!_
” All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing ”
– Attributed to a few people –
The NAZIs insisted _THEY_ were the good guys… *_NEXT!_*
The shouts of IGNORANTS and silence of the Wise and Very respected always destroys a Country.
Or, to put it another way: _”The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”_ ~ Yeats