It's Past Time For Gens. Kelly And Mattis To Step Up

Their silence is both deafening and damning.

Former Trump Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly (USMC, ret.) and former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis (USMC, ret.) have so far held their tongues about what they know of the explosive accounts of Cadet Bone Spurs' despicable and defaming comments about American war dead and MIA.  Both would be in a position to publicly go on record confirming the stories in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg and in the Washington Post about Cadet Bone Spurs' calling fallen soldiers "suckers" and "losers," and wondering why we made efforts to find Americans missing in action.  But, to date, they haven't.

Clearly, a rattled and paranoid Cadet Bone Spurs thinks Gen. Kelly ("or a guy like a John Kelly") may have been the "former senior administration official" who was one of the sources of the story, and is out with a typically dishonest prebuttal denigrating Kelly.  Kelly has already obliquely criticized Cadet Bone Spurs as lacking character, and Mattis issued a powerful rebuke (via Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic -- hmmm) saying Cadet Bone Spurs was a threat to the Constitution and was dividing America.  They've seen this malignant menace close-up and recognize the danger he poses to our democracy, particularly as he gets more desperate to foil the likely results of the November election.

They can do their patriotic duty now by going on the record with what they've heard and seen.  Their further silence is damning, for Cadet Bone Spurs but also for them.