'Stunning,' 'powerful,' 'overdue': Romney, Murkowski praise Mattis' stinging Trump rebuke

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'Stunning,' 'powerful,' 'overdue': Romney, Murkowski praise Mattis' stinging Trump rebuke
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Republican Sen. Murkowski on Thursday praised former Defense Sec. Mattis' new op-ed critique of President Trump as 'true and honest and necessary and overdue.'

at his impeachment trial despite behavior she said was"shameful," Murkowski said:"I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time.""I think right now, as we are all struggling to find ways to express the words that need to be expressed appropriately, questions about who I'm going to vote for or not going to vote for, I think, are distracting at the moment.

Trump pushed back against Mattis in a pair of Wednesday night tweets, claiming he'd fired him and labeling him"an overrated general." John Kelly, who was Trump's chief of staff at the time, toldon Thursday,"The president has clearly forgotten how it actually happened or is confused." “The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation,” Kelly, who like Mattis is a retired Marine Corps general, told the paper, adding,"Jim Mattis is an honorable man."

Other Republican senators shrugged off Mattis' comments, despite their past support for Trump's former defense secretary. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and a top Trump ally, told Fox News of Mattis:"I admire his service to the nation. But the one thing I would tell General Mattis is that you don't quite understand that from the time President Trump wakes up until he goes to bed there's an effort to destroy his presidency."Kasie Hunt, the host of MSNBC's"Kasie DC," is a Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News.

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