Amid the barrage of unsubstantiated charges and outright lies about President Donald Trump contained in the excerpts that have been released to the public from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, Rage, one is worth taking particular note of. Woodward reports that former Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis told then Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, that President Trump was “dangerous” and “unfit,” and warned Coats that “there may come a time when we have to take collective action” against Trump. No further explanation is provided as to what Mattis meant by “collective action,” but the threat of a coup is beyond obvious.
In a separate conversation, Mattis purportedly said, “The President has no moral compass,” to which Coats purportedly responded, “True. To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”
