President Donald Trump launched an attack against James Mattis, his former defense secretary, after Mattis expressed a desire to see Trump’s signature “America First” policies removed from national security strategy for the incoming Biden-Harris administration. “That says it all about Mattis. Obama fired him. I should have fired him sooner,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Did…
Grassroots groups will be running a full-page ad in Pennsylvania featuring 6,000 vets agreeing with Gen. Mattis and denouncing Trump.
President Donald Trump this morning attacked James Mattis, his former Secretary of Defense, calling the celebrated military general “overrated.” “Mattis was our Country’s most overrated General,” he wrote in response to a tweet quoting intelligence analyst Sebastian Gorka, who said Mattis “is no Marine.” “He talked a lot, but never ‘brought home the bacon,’” Trump…
When I first heard on the radio that retired United States Marine Corps General had issued a statement critical of Donald Trump’s threat to deploy the U.S. military to suppress the nation-wide mass protests against racism and racial violence, I wasn’t only underwhelmed, I was frustrated. Especially upon hearing this excerpt: “Donald Trump is the…
Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis criticized President Donald Trump for his behavior in response to the protests that erupted after the death of George Floyd, saying he is “the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people.” Trump “does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to…
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis was often referred to as ‘the adult in the room” in Donald Trump’s White House. With his abrupt resignation on Thursday many people in Washington are expressing alarm. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark R. Warner of Virginia called Mattis “an island of stability amid…
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asked the international community to help end the war in Afghanistan. He said that regional leaders need assistance in their efforts to “bridge longstanding disagreements,” and also pointed out that conflicts in Afghanistan have now gone on for “40 years.” Mattis spoke to the news media before a meeting with…
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the U.S. military may be used to defend against or prevent Russia’s election meddling in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections — but did not elaborate as to specifically how the armed forces would be deployed. The Military Times reported that Mattis also said he agrees that the order…
Raf Noboa, an Iraq War veteran and former Army sergeant, may have said it best: “America’s military once liberated people from concentration camps. It beggars the mind and our morality that it might be used to secure them.” “It smacks of totalitarianism,” added Steve Kleinman, a retired Air Force colonel and military intelligence officer. Kleinman…
Defense Secretary James Mattis warned North Korea that any threat to the United States would be met with a massive and overwhelming military response.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis appears to be dragging his feet and ignoring Trump’s calls for a transgender military ban.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has refused to go on the Trump friendly show Fox and Friends, where he would be asked partisan questions and asked to defend the President.
Trump’s presidency, with its emphasis on law and order, is trying to sell us the idea that a repressive society is a free society.
If testimony by some of his nominees this week is an indicator, Trump’s pledge to torture people may, thankfully, be in trouble.
It’s an irresponsible way to treat a spending bill, particularly since the failure to pass it would result in a government shutdown.