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RHMerriman

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4. Headline is completely misleading; any such effort in 2016 would have been

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 23, 2018, 12:05 AM

Dec 2018

Headline is completely misleading; any such effort in 2016 was going to be designed to attract votes from DJT and give Republicans a place to go, not take on HRC.

Like almost everyone else who had not been read in on the fact that hostile foreign actors were in league with the GOP generally and DJT especially, the situation was misread.

Reality is that is Mattis had run a third-party, or even a last-minute GOP candidacy, the beneficiary would have been HRC, and she'd be president today.

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2016 General Mattis rules out presidential bid to stop Trump, Clinton [View all] WeekiWater Dec 2018 OP

Why would Mattis have wanted to stop HRC? lapucelle Dec 2018 #1

not Mattis himself but the idiot's trying to get him to run JI7 Dec 2018 #2

The people wanting him to run. WeekiWater Dec 2018 #3

Headline is completely misleading; any such effort in 2016 would have been RHMerriman Dec 2018 #4