Mark Esper: “We cannot allow the Iranians to control the Strait of Hormuz.”

To me to be president United States or any elected official, you have to have some core, you know, a core base there. It begins with putting country over yourself.

The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations.

the country became like a runaway car barreling down the hill, with Trump behind the wheel, and his loyalists pushing down hard on the accelerator, while others in the White House ripped out the brakes and cut the seatbelts.

I concluded that the president was unfit for office, a national security threat and a threat to democracy.