A former top adviser to ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis is publishing a new book in October that will divulge some of Mattis’ efforts to slow roll President Trump’s most “controversial” policies, NBC News reported.
NBC obtained the press release for the forthcoming book, which was described as a “sometimes shocking” account of the “complicated relationship” between Trump and Mattis. The book is penned by Mattis’s former communications director, the retired Navy Cmdr. Guy “Bus” Snodgrass. “Holding the Line: Inside the Pentagon with General Mattis” will be published in October.
Snodgrass served as Mattis’ communications director for 17 months of the General’s two-year tenure with the Trump administration. Mattis resigned in December over his opposition to Trump’s announcement that he would withdrawal all U.S. troops from Syria, which he never actually did.
According to NBC, the press release says the book will offer a “fly-on-the-wall view of Mattis” during key events, such as “learning about major policy decision via Twitter, rather than from the White House” and how Mattis “slow-rolled some of Trump’s most controversial measures, with no intention of following through.”
You can’t make this shit up.
That was my exact same thought when I read that. Not sure how “Bus” is an improvement over “Guy”…
What this SHOULD do is add on to the mounting evidence of Trump’s existential threat. No person brought up in any American subculture should be comfortable with this.
But “should” and “are” don’t always match.
So here’s something else: it will not matter if Trump gets his way. Both Deplorables and those who fought them will all suffer the same fate: We all lose, because there is no sister earth, right along side us, empty and ready to be colonized.
Mattis decided to wait before writing his “tell all” book. Looks like he’s about to get “trumped” by Bus.
I’m not sure books explaining how major players thwarted Trump on the sly are necessarily helpful. They feed into Dear Leader’s paranoia and, I suspect, make him less willing to listen to advice from anyone other then family or Stephen Miller.
“From a safe distance, and at a future undisclosed date, I may say some pretty sharp things about the way things were handled in this administration. No one will question my brave patriotism in speaking out against these things after a book deal, and not while I had any way to influence or change things. Take that Sirrah!”