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Full interview with Gen. Colin Powell - CNN Video
Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell tells CNN's Jake Tapper that President Trump has drifted away from the Constitution and he cannot support his re-election bid in 2020.
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i am sure jake tapper was salivating over getting another eminence grise for a full throated trump bashing interview. This is the strategy of all the tds media now, pile on the president and get famous person after famous person to go on record saying they will not vote for trump. Powell is apparently in the Romney mold of rhino so he fits perfectly into the republican category of never trumpers.
Powell chooses his words carefully and doesn’t claim the president violates the constitution but is drifting away from it. He never cites any specific examples but rather leans heavily on the lying narrative, at one point saying none of the previous presidents ever lied the way trump does. Conveniently forgetting bush’s weapons of mass destruction or Obama’s you can keep your doctor and save $2500 dollars a year, a lie that has harmed way more people and 1/6 of the economy. And as with so many who bring up the constitution, their Achilles heel is always the fact that they never visit the Obama weaponization of govt agencies and soft coup that is an orders of magnitude more serious constitutional crisis than anything trump has done. To ignore the issue of subverting our democracy just makes Powell’s constitutional argument a fraud.
The icing on the cake comes towards the end of the interview as Tapper drones on about trump wanting to call in the troops and Powell starts marching in unison with him saying that it should only be a last resort and shouldn’t be used right before he said he called the troops in during the Rodney King riots. The hypocrisy here is so rich one can cut it with a knife. It is sad to see a good man so intellectually contort himself into a pretzel just to reach the outcome that Jake Tapper requires of his interviewee.
General Mattis is another person I have great respect for, especially when he has publicly said he does not believe in offering his opinion from the peanut gallery and until last week he had kept his word. I get what the General is saying about the bond that has to exist between the armed forces and civilians, it is a point well taken. But where is the tipping point for such actions. No one is ever going to make me believe that Mattis would agree with deserting a police station and turning over the building to a mob. At what point are we at when in America’s greatest city, we are stringing barbed wire around Saks Fifth Ave? Does Mattis actually think that armed civilians protecting innocent people is going to end well?Mattis speaks of trump being such a divisive president and not trying to unite the country. He must have missed trumps executive actions bringing the justice dept. and the fbi on board immediately, his speech at cape canavera, or his constant comments about what happened in Minneapolis should never happen. For a man who talks about unity, why is he at the height of the violence undermining the authority of the president of the United States and stealthily hinting that quite possibly the men and women of the armed forces should not obey the commander in Chief. This is heresy especially coming from a man so steeped in the tradition of our military and there is no danger to the country that warrants such speech.
Trump has not called the82nd Airborne out on the streets and it is quite possible that the threat of doing so quelled some of the violence.
Those on the left will say that these generals just show how off the rails Trump is. But there is not a constitutional crisis, never has been on trumps part, even as there is a never ending waterfall of lies coming from the media. Maybe if these generals focused on the damage being done to the country by the press, the congress, the violence, and the false narratives they would do whole lot more for our constitution and our unity, assuming their goals are to preserve the union and not to preserve the establishment.