Since leaving his post as Defense Secretary Jan. 1, 2019, 70-year-old retired four-star Gen. James Mattis takes any opportunity to slam his former boss 74-year-old President Donald Trump. Becoming a favorite on liberal TV and radio shows, Mattis takes any opportunity to lash out at Trump, angry that the former president called him “over-rated.” Stepping out his lane as former Centcom Commander, Mattis now fancies himself as an expert in domestic terrorism, something he says Trump spawned at his Jan. 6 rally, complaining about the Nov. 3, 2020 election. “There are internal threats right now,” Mattis said, citing the “the lack of unity on the consensual underpinnings of our democracy, and what we saw on Jan. 6 fomented by the president,” Mattis told the press over a week before Trump’s second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate set to begin Feb. 8.
Mattis gladly opines in the press as long as it attacks Trump, this time lending credibility to Democrats’ impeachment case against Trump, that he committed high crimes and misdemeanors, “incitement of insurrection.” Mattis said Trump “fomented” a threat to American democracy, referring to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mob scene that stormed the Capitol and vandalized public property. Trump delivered a speech Jan. 6 to about one million supporters, complaining about election fraud that his lawyers were never able to prove in court. Trump never told his audience to storm the Capitol and deface government property, despite telling them not to “show weakness” or “fight like hell” for their rights to protest the election results. Democrats and the media insist that anyone that disputes the election results must be a traitor or, like Mattis said, fomenting an “insurrection.”
Speaking a little over a week before Trump’s new impeachment trial, Mattis hoped to lend credibility to Trump “inciting an insurrection.” Mattis, who as former Centcom Commander, should shed light on the nature of “insurrections,” since he presided over the one in Syria during his four years with the Obama administration. Hidden by the media, former President Barack Obama and his former Vice President Joe Biden spent billions, funded and gave arms to various Syrian rebel groups to topple the U.N. sovereign government of Bashar al-Assad. Instead of shedding light on insurrections or insurgences something Mattis knows about, he pretends the Jan. 6 riot was an “insurrection,” when no arms-or-cash were funneled to some two thousand lawbreakers. Mattis knows that armed with cell phones for selfies is no insurrection or insurgency.
Mattis knows all about ”insurrection” following Obama and Biden’s orders to topple the government of Bashar al-Assad. After Mattis left Centcom with 500,000 Syrian deaths, and 15 million more displaced to neighboring countries and Europe, the world faced the worst humanitarian crisis since WW II. Obama and Biden’s Syrian proxy war drove the United Kingdom to Brexit and out of the European Union [EU], practically breaking up the 27-member union all over Mideast immigration. Yet Mattis suddenly becomes an expert on domestic terror groups right before Trump’s impeachment trial. “Globalism hasn’t been altogether good in large parts of our country,” Mattis said, straying off topic. “Certain trade deals” had had “second- and third-order effects in inside our country,” creating an undesirable impact on American jobs, leading to despair.
It’s impossible to conclude what Mattis is talking about, blaming Trump for making the U.S. economy worse with new trade deals. Or trying to comment that past trade deals, like North American Free Trade Agreement [NAFTA] hurt American manufacturing jobs. In any case, Mattis strayed so far out of his lane a Defense Secretary or former Centcom Commander it’s frightening. “People are much more inclined to listen to conspiracy theories and other thing when they’re losing hope,” trying to explain why disgruntled Trump supporters attacked the Capitol. When Mattis or the press talks about “conspiracy theories,” they’re trying to discredit alternative explanations to the conventional wisdom. Democrats think it’s an open-and-shut case that Trump lost the Nov. 3, 2020 election fair-and-square. Democrats and the press don’t want to talk about universal mail-in ballots.
Listening to press gaslight Mattis or other Trump-haters, like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.), it’s sunk the fake news to another lows. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Mattis shares his keen insights into trade agreements and the disgruntled American public. What’s obvious listening to Mattis is he has a vendetta against Trump, something easily vented in the liberal press. Mattis could have shared his expertise about “insurrections” or insurgencies and notified the fake news that a mob armed with cell phones to take selfies is not an insurrection by anyone’s definition. Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have tortured logic and concocted the latest bogus impeachment charge against Trump, “incitement of insurrection.” While the Jan. 6 crowd no doubt made a mess, they were not organized to topple the U.S. government, only vandalize and take selifies.
