Donald Trump really didn't need that. Already widely criticized for his action and his attitude since the death of George Floyd during his arrest of the police and the immense anger which then seized the United States, the American president has just taken it for his rank .
This time, the charge is led by a former relative, Jim Mattis, his ex-Minister of Defense between January 2017 and December 2018. "In my lifetime, Donald Trump is the first president who does not try to bring together the Americans, who don't even pretend to try, "wrote the 69-year-old former Marine general in a statement posted online by The Atlantic and other American media.
"Instead, he is trying to divide us," added the highly respected soldier, who had so far posted his reservation, explaining that he preferred not to comment directly on the mandate of the Republican billionaire. This time, too much is too much in his eyes: "We pay the consequences of three years without adults in charge".
The President's reaction was immediate. In a tweet, Donald Trump called him "the most overestimated general in the world" and "crazy dog". "I'm glad he left!" Insisted the tenant of the White House.
" Unity is strength "
Jim Mattis, first head of the Pentagon after the arrival in the White House of a Donald Trump without military or diplomatic experience, was then considered, even in the Republican ranks, as one of the rare "adults in the room" able to contain the impulses of the ex-businessman.
He resigned with a bang in December 2018 the day after President Trump's announcement of a total unilateral withdrawal from Syria, without consulting the Washington allies in the fight against the jihadist group Islamic State.
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On Wednesday, he reacted to the presidential reaction to the troubles of the past week. "I observed the unfolding of the events of this week, in anger and dismayed", he continues in this text entitled "The Union is strength", supporting the demonstrators who demand, according to him "rightly", the equality of rights.
In response to the large rallies which multiplied in the country of the death of George Floyd on May 25, which were also marked by violence and looting, Donald Trump essentially contented himself with condemning these excesses and bringing an martial response to protesters' demands.