Saying that Donald Trump “fomented” the violence that manifested in the January 6th insurrection attack on the Capitol, former Defense Secretary James Mattis said the United States faces a number of different threats from external and internal sources, Yahoo News reports.
“There are also internal threats right now,” Mattis said during an online forum, citing “the lack of unity on the consensual underpinnings of our democracy, and what we saw on Jan. 6, fomented by a sitting president.”
Mattis also noted that the US faces a number of foreign threats as well, including from North Korea, Russia, China and international terrorism.
Mattis dug into the source for the internal unrest in the US, and he specified uncertainty caused by globalism leading to the easy acceptance of conspiracy theories.
“Globalism hasn’t been altogether good in large parts of our country,” he said, adding “People are much more inclined to listen to conspiracy theories and other things when they’re losing hope.”