3/6/21: Donald Trump’s last Secretary of Defense, in an “acting” capacity, Christopher Miller, has harsh words for his former boss. Which we add to the harsh words his first Secretary of Defense, Gen. James Mattis, shared, and the less-than-flattering words offered up by his second Sec. of Defense, Mark Esper, and we have what you might call a “historical trend.”
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“It seems cause-and-effect.”
Acting Secretary
of Defense Christopher Miller
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In a recent interview with Vice on Showtime, Miller posed this question: “Would anybody have marched on the Capitol, and overrun the Capitol, without the president’s [Jan. 6] speech? I think it’s pretty much definitive that wouldn’t have happened.”
“It seems cause-and-effect,” he
added. “The question is, did he know he was enraging the crowd to do that? I
don’t know.”
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Trump fans! |
Did Trump care, if he did?
Nope.
POSTSCRIPT: Perhaps you have forgotten.
In June 2020, Trump’s first Secretary of Defense, condemned his old boss as a
threat to the U.S. Constitution. This came after the man in the Oval Office
ordered a peaceful protest broken up in front of the White House and talked
about unleashing active duty U.S. military forces on protesters across the
land.
Esper, who had replaced Mattis by that point, broke with the president over his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell Black Lives Matter protests. Trump had to be talked out of firing Esper on the spot. He waited until after the election and canned Esper, for the sin of standing up to him, and standing up in support of the Constitution.
(See also: “Hang Mike Pence.”)
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