After long refusing to explicitly criticize a sitting president, former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused President Donald Trump of trying to divide America and roundly denounced military response to crisis Live updates here:
FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis speaks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York, September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Gary He
“Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort.” “Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict — a false conflict — between the military and civilian society,” Mattis wrote.“I didn’t like his “leadership” style or much else about him, and many others agree. Glad he is gone!” Trump wrote.
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