[DesertRhino]

When the Pentagon negates the presidents statements a day later, isis is the least of our problems.

[Flick Lives]

When the Pentagon negates the presidents statements a day later, isis is the least of our problems.

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I thought the 9th Circuit Court was in charge of the U.S. Military.

[CitizenUSA]

What exactly did the president say, because it looks like the Pentagon is contradicting the WSJ article—not the president. Fake news!

[Zhang Fei]

[When the Pentagon negates the presidents statements a day later, isis is the least of our problems.]

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Trump can fire Mattis the very next minute. Here’s the scoop. With most politicians, what you see isn’t what you get. With Trump, that’s true to a head-spinning extent. Trump says he wants a wall. He could veto every appropriations bill until he gets a standalone bill on the wall. But he hasn’t done that. He could go to every district in which a Republican has voted against a wall, and urge voters to remove him during the next primary. He hasn’t.

All this stuff about the deep state presupposes locked-in civil service people pulling the levers behind the scenes. The reality is that these people can be fired if they do not follow orders. And firing Mattis would be a fine initiative pour encourager les autres. But Trump hasn’t fired Mattis. The correct conclusion is that Trump is just shining segments of his supporters on. I think, politically-speaking, that it is one of the strangest things I’ve seen a politician do, but maybe it will help him win re-election in 2020. We can only hope.

[Pining_4_TX]

The military industrial complex strikes back.