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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 03:23 PM Jun 2020

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Friday he agrees with former Secretary of Defense

Source: MSN

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Friday he agrees with former Secretary of Defense Gen. Jim Mattis' stark warning this week that President Donald Trump is "the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people" as nationwide protests have intensified over the death of George Floyd.

"I agree with him," Kelly told Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director.

"There is a concern, I think an awful big concern, that the partisanship has gotten out of hand, the tribal thing has gotten out of hand," Kelly said. "He's quite a man, Jim Mattis, and for him to do that tells you where he is relative to the concern he has for our country."

Kelly's comments come after Mattis, who has widespread support among Senate Republicans for his long military service to the country, contended this week that Trump "does not even pretend to try" to unite the country and is instead engaged in a "deliberate effort" to divide the country, while lacking "mature leadership."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kelly-i-agree-with-jim-mattis-on-donald-trump/ar-BB155Wff?li=BBnb7Kz



Interesting. The question is what would happen if Trump and Barr and the rest of the Republican Trump sychophants decide to go the route of military dictatorship. Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz would probably jump on the band wagon.
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The American Military Is Sworn to Protect the Constitution... NNadir Jun 2020 #1

NNadir

(33,525 posts)
1. The American Military Is Sworn to Protect the Constitution...
Fri Jun 5, 2020, 06:04 PM
Jun 2020

...and they've made it perfectly clear in recent weeks that they respect that oath.

No American soldier in history has ever sworn allegiance to any person, never mind to two bit criminals with no ethics.

Trump may think he's a king worthy of personal allegiance, but he's an incompetent fool held in contempt by the whole world.

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