MSNBC’s O’Donnell: General Mattis Took a ‘Public, Quasi-Religious Vow’ to Never Say Anything About the President He Served

RUSH EXCERPT:

O’DONNELL: “I’ll leave it to people to make their own decisions about how much of that they want to believe or credit to him. As you say, we’re still awaiting John Kelly’s apology to congresswoman fredrica Wilson where he lied about her, told racist lies about her, deliberately racist lies about her from the racist Trump White House. So watching this kind of extrication game that John Kelly is trying to play now is a different thing than what we’re watching with James Mattis. James Mattis took almost, kind of, a public, quasi religious vow to never say anything about the president he served as defense secretary. He made this claim when his book came out that it was the only honorable way for him to proceed. So it took a lot, it took everything we’ve seen in the last three and half years for General Mattis to come out. And when he did come out, he didn’t limit himself to just the last seven days of events. He didn’t limit himself to the disgrace that Donald Trump brought upon the chairman of the joint chiefs, the defense secretary, when they walked out and commandeered a church where they were not welcome for a photo op.”