“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try.” Trump UnitedStates Mattis
In this file photo taken on January 27, 2017, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis speaks after his ceremonial swearing-in, watched by US President Donald Trump at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. – Former Defense Secretary Mattis issued a stinging condemnation of Trump on June 3, 2020, accusing the president of trying to “divide” America.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try,” Mattis wrote in a blistering statement posted online by The Atlantic. The demonstrations have mostly been peaceful, but some have degenerated into violence and looting as night falls.And he slammed the decision to use force to clear peaceful protesters from near the White House on Monday to allow Trump to pose for photographs at a nearby damaged church, calling it an “abuse of executive authority.”
“Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens — much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.” For months after Mattis resigned, he refused to criticize Trump publicly, insisting the military must remain apolitical.
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