Former U.S. Commander McChrystal: Trump is Immoral and Dishonest

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal said in a rare interview Sunday that he considers President Donald Trump “immoral” and wouldn’t take a job in the administration.

McChrystal, a retired four star general and former top commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, spoke to ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz about the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis and the administration’s Middle East policy.

“If you were asked to join the Trump administration, what would you say?” Raddatz asked.

“I’d say no,” McChrystal said.

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-u-s-commander-mcchrystal-trump-is-immoral-and-dishonest/

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McChrystal said bluntly that he doesn't think Trump tells the truth, and that Trump is immoral in his view.

He was also asked what he'd say to Trump supporters.

He said that being willing to be governed by someone we wouldn't do business with, because of their shady background, is a conflict with who he thinks Americans are, and people should take a stand.

He also said that Mattis's resignation letter was about much more than Syria, and it should make Americans "take pause."

Video at the link.


Trump tweets bashing McChrystal should be showing up soon...

[highplainsdem]

1. Ted Lieu tweet about this, minutes ago:

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

2. VoteVets: Former JSOC commander ⁦@StanMcChrystal⁩ calling it straight

Link to tweet

[ChiTownDenny]

3. Yippee! McChrystal said some things about Trump

we like and agree with. Let's not forget he was fired as the top military commander in Afghanistan by Obama for trashing Obama in a Rolling Stone interview. (BTW, let's not forget who Comey is, also.)

[calimary]

13. Worthy point.

Oddly enough, from what I’ve read, McChrystal also was a commander who ordered that NONE of the TV monitors in his compound be tuned to Pox Noise.

[Ccarmona]

4. Cue the Individual-1 Anti McChrystal Twitter Rants In 3...2...1....

[czarjak]

5. "Smarter than the Generals"

[mgardener]

6. Why would you expect an immoral man

To do the right thing or make any decision using acceptable moral guidelines???
Yet the republicans and evangelicals expect him to make the those decisions every day.
It says a lot about them too.

[calimary]

14. Yeah, to understand how and why all this happened, seems to me

we HAVE TO ask ourselves what that says about those who bought this shit from the get-go, and willingly (even eagerly) swallowed it whole without even chewing it up first.

Who and what are THEY, and why and how did they see fit to elevate this bastard to think he Oval Office?

What does this say about them, then? Seems to me there’s been enough time by now, to come to at least some partially informed and realistic conclusions.

[robbob]

20. Because he is being guided by GAWD!!!

...dammit!



A God he has no relationship with, whos opinions and tenents he has no interest in, and whos forgiveness he feels he doesn’t have to ask for, since he’s never done anything wrong, EVEN THOUGH it’s a basic foundation of the Christian faith that we are all sinners who need Gods forgiveness!

In other words; those “Christians” who champion tRump are raging hypocrites of the highest order!

[Botany]

7. ATTN media

This was all known prior to the 2016 election and yet you guys didn't report that Donald Trump and his University stole money from the widows of the G.I.s killed in Iraq and Afghanistan or a billion other stories like that all we heard was about HRC'S emails.

[red dog 1]

16. + 1

Speaking of "ATTN media"...see reply # 15

[bluestarone]

8. My question is

Why didn't he say the same about most of the RETHUGS in congress???? He knows it BUT won't say it!!!

[ffr]

9. When people with military backgrounds speak is such tones about the CiC, you have to wonder

what active military think of serving under such an immoral dishonest CiC.

[SHRED]

10. Some of us knew this decades ago

[calimary]

12. Yep. Not a bit surprised. Repulsed, disgusted, and outraged.

But surprised? Nope.

I sometimes think that living with the parents I had prepared me perfectly to recognize and see through trump. My slick-talking philandering salesman dad taught me all about donald. My enabler mom with her many issues, denials, and blaming (of me, to a great extent) taught me all about donald’s supporters.

[appleannie1943]

11. Like anyone with half a brain doesn't already know that.

Which begs the question "What took him so long to figure it out?"

[red dog 1]

15. I wish Martha Raddatz had asked McChrystal about this re:Trump's decision to pull out of Syria

"Four Months After Threat To Seize Trump Towers Istanbul, Trump Gave Into Turkey's Syria Troop Pullout Request"
https://www.inquisitr.com/5221546/seize-trump-towers-istanbul-syria-troop-pullout/

(McChrystal must have known about this)

Why has this story been totally ignored by the media?

[highplainsdem]

18. Wesley Clark alluded to this, in a way, on MSNBC just now, saying that we don't know

how much Trump's foreign business entanglements affect his political and military decisions. But he didn't mention the threat to seize Trump Towers Instanbul specifically.

[red dog 1]

21. Erdogan's threat to seize Trump Towers Istanbul should be a major story, but it's not.

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The source of the Inquisitit.com story is the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz"..which, I think, is a reliable source.

WTF?

I wonder why has the media has totally ignored this?

[highplainsdem]

17. They're talking about this on MSNBC now.

[saidsimplesimon]

19. Back to the future?

I was vocal in opposition to President Obama's path in surrounding himself with Generals who were more political than patriot.

McChrystal is in the dust bin of history. He displayed both partisan and bigoted tantrums while publishing in Rolling Stone. He earned becoming a laughing stock for the military command. Unfortunately, Obama appointed an equally biased and morally flawed military leader, General Petraeus (betray US).

Hindsight is always 20/20. President Obama played the hand he was dealt to the best of his abilities, awesome accomplishment.

[JackRiddler]

22. This is also true when it's not a war criminal saying it

Those who truly understand and fight against the politics of Trump also know that the McChrystals, Comeys, Wesley Clarks and Mattisses and other imperialist war commanders, the "Anonymous" from the New York Times, the Kristols and all the other Iraq War propagandists, the Max Boots, the Clappers and Brennans and other mistakes of Obama's, and the many Bush regime holdovers looking to rehabilitate themselves as centrists and even liberals (including even Bush himself) are

NOT OUR FRIENDS.

[oberliner]

23. DUers ike McChrystal now?

Anyone remember 2010?