The last adult in the Trump Admin has handed in his resignation ….
With his Commander-in-Chief all of the sudden deciding to pull American troops out of Syria AND possibly Afghanistan?….
Jim Mattis just could NOT serve….
If the Trump commands are carried out?
Tens of thousands of people who had American military support will become vulnerable….
And Trump won’t reach out to provide safety for those that could be in harms way….
THIS IS SERIOUS….
Jim Mattis, the four-star Marine general turned defense secretary, resigned on Thursday in protest of President Trump’s decision to withdraw 2,000 American troops from Syria, where they have been fighting the Islamic State.
Mr. Trump announced the resignation in two tweets Thursday evening, and said Mr. Mattis will leave at the end of February.
Officials said Mr. Mattis went to the White House on Thursday afternoon in a last attempt to convince Mr. Trump to keep American troops in Syria. He was rebuffed, and told the president that he was resigning as a result.
Hours later, the Pentagon released Mr. Mattis’ resignation letter, in which he implicitly criticized his commander in chief. Mr. Mattis said in the letter that he believes that the president deserves a defense secretary who is more in tune with his worldview.
“One core belief I have always held is that our strength as a nation is inextricably linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships,” Mr. Mattis wrote.
“Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position,” he wrote.
[Read Mr. Mattis’ resignation letter here.]
His departure leaves the Trump administration without one of the few officials viewed as standing between a mercurial president and global tumult. The president said he would name Mr. Mattis’ replacement shortly….
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has long said the support does not exist for extending the simple-majority threshold to limit debate to the legislative calendar, and back in January a senior Senate GOP aide said the votes did not exist within the Republican Conference for such a move….
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McConnell finished his statement by asking Trump to consider a replacement whose views align with Mattis’s.
“It is regrettable that the president must now choose a new Secretary of Defense,” McConnell wrote. “But I urge him to select a leader who shares Secretary Mattis’s understanding of these vital principles and his total commitment to America’s servicemembers.”
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Former Vice President Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration as having “abandoned” American beliefs following Defense Secretary James Mattis’s Thursday resignation announcement.
“I’ve had disagreements with Secretary Mattis, but we shared the view — long-held by Democrats and Republicans in this nation — that respect for our allies and a commitment to the most important and effective alliances in history made America safer,” Biden said on Twitter a few hours after the announcement.
Biden is weighing a run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020….
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Gone or going in recent weeks:
State: Rex Tillerson
Attorney-General: Jeff Sessions
Chief of Staff: John Kelly
Defense; Jim Mattis
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: James Dunford
Interior: Ryan Zinke
Ambassador to the United Nations: Nikki Haley
Why would you even want to work for the guy?
It won’t be good on ur resume….
Trump tries to salvage his losing Defense Sec Mattis, who incidentally, is STILL working….
President Donald Trump claimed Saturday he gave outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis “a second chance” after the retired Marine general was ousted from military leadership under the Obama administration.
“When President Obama ingloriously fired Jim Mattis, I gave him a second chance. Some thought I shouldn’t, I thought I should,” Trump tweeted Saturday evening.
Former President Barack Obama fired Mattis as head of U.S. Central Command in 2013 in large part because of Mattis’ increasingly hawkish posture toward Iran.
Mattis resigned from the Trump Cabinet on Thursday in protest of Trump’s abrupt plan to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria.
But Trump wrote that he made sure Mattis was better equipped and more empowered in his role leading the Pentagon since January 2017….
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