Former Defense Secretary James Mattis denounces President Trump as a threat to democracy in extraordinary statement
Trump is needlessly dividing the country and"militarizing" America's response to the protests, Mattis wrote in a statement published by The Atlantic magazine. The former general also offered a full-throated endorsement of the demonstrations, which have unfolded across the U.S. after George Floyd, an African American man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer.
Noting his own oath to uphold the Constitution when he first joined the military, Mattis wrote: "Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens – much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside."
"We must reject any thinking of our cities as a 'battlespace' that our uniformed military is called upon to 'dominate'," Mattis wrote. He said the decision to deploy the military"erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect."
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