Mattis blames Trump for inciting 'mob rule'

Source: Politico | January 6, 2021 | Lara Seligman

The United States will overcome “this stain,” while Trump “will deservedly be left a man without a country,” he wrote.

President Donald Trump’s first Defense secretary is placing the blame for a violent and unprecedented assault on the U.S. Capitol squarely on the commander in chief, blasting his former boss for abusing his office.

In a statement provided to POLITICO, former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday accused Trump of using the presidency to “destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens.”

“Today’s violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump,” Mattis wrote. “His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice.”

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