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Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2024-05-03): Mullen told me recently that service in this administration comes with a unique set of hazards, and that Mattis was not unaware of these hazards. "I think back to his ‘Hold the line’ talk, the one that was captured on video," Mullen said, referring to an impromptu 2017 encounter between Mattis and U.S. troops stationed in Jordan that became a YouTube sensation. In the video, Mattis tells the soldiers, "Our country right now, it’s got problems we don’t have in the military. You just hold the line until our country gets back to understanding and respecting each other and showing it." Mullen said: "He obviously found himself in a challenging environment." [...] To some of his friends, though, Mattis was beginning to place his reputation at risk. He had, in the fall of 2018, acquiesced to Trump’s deployment of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, and he was becoming contemptuous of a Pentagon press corps that was trying to perform its duty in difficult circumstances. [...] The next day, he met Trump in the Oval Office. Mattis made his case for keeping troops in Syria. Trump rejected his arguments. Thirty minutes into the conversation, Mattis told the president, "You’re going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to ISIS. I’m not going to do it." He handed Trump his resignation letter, a letter that would soon become one of the most famous documents of the Trump presidency thus far.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2019-10-08): President Donald Trump shocked lawmakers from both parties recently when he announced the United States would be withdrawing troops from the Syrian border with Turkey. [...] According to Trump, Mattis told him early in Trump’s administration the military was "very low on ammunition" when they were at a position "with a certain country" and "may have had a conflict." [...] PolitiFact, "Donald Trump claims Russia is 'not happy' U.S. troops are leaving Syria. That isn't true," Dec. 21, 2018
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2020-06-04): James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution [...] James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2018-02-08): In October, after the deaths of four American army soldiers in an ambush in Niger focused attention on a build-up of hundreds of American forces there, a deployment that began under Obama and expanded under Trump, Mattis testified that the administration had sent the troops to be trainers and advisers who would help that nation resist incursions by Islamic State fighters: "Why did President Obama send troops there? Why did President Trump send troops there? It’s because we sensed that as the physical caliphate is collapsing, the enemy is trying to move somewhere." Mattis added, "We’re trying to build up the internal defenses of another country so they can do this job on their own."
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2024-10-09): From 2018 onward, Trump deployed nearly 6,000 troops to the U.S.–Mexico border[277] to stop most Central American migrants from seeking asylum. In 2020, his administration widened the public charge rule to further restrict immigrants who might use government benefits from getting permanent residency.[278] Trump reduced the number of refugees admitted to record lows. When Trump took office, the annual limit was 110,000; Trump set a limit of 18,000 in the 2020 fiscal year and 15,000 in the 2021 fiscal year.[279][280] Additional restrictions implemented by the Trump administration caused significant bottlenecks in processing refugee applications, resulting in fewer refugees accepted than the allowed limits.[281] [...] - ^ Mitchell, Ellen (January 29, 2019). "Pentagon to send a 'few thousand' more troops to southern border". The Hill. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2021-03-03): In 2016, not a few people supported Donald Trump for his purported skepticism about recent U.S. military campaigns. As a Republican presidential candidate, Trump declared the Iraq War a mistake and even pretended that he’d never supported the invasion. It was part of his effort to distance himself from hawks within his own party and the "globalists" in the Democratic Party. Some libertarians even supported Trump as the "anti-war" candidate.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2019-09-08): This was disconcerting if unsurprising. In Trump’s America, reflexive hatred for the president has led many in the media to foolishly pin their political hopes on generals like Mattis, leaders of the only public institution the people still trust. Even purportedly liberal journalists like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who was once critical of U.S. militarism, have reversed course, defending engagements in Syria and Afghanistan seemingly because the president has expressed interest in winding them down. The fallacy that Mattis and other generals were the voice of reason in the Trump White House, the so-called "adults in the room," has precluded any serious critique of their actual strategy and advice. [...] Thanks to Mattis and company, Trump’s purported desire to withdraw from fruitless Middle Eastern wars has been stifled, the result being business as usual for the military-industrial-complex and national security state. And why not? Since resigning his post, Mattis has burst through the "revolving door" of the arms industry, reclaiming his seat on the board of the fifth largest defense contractor, General Dynamics. Albert Einstein famously (and perhaps apocryphally) said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." He might just as easily have been describing the career of James Mattis, who has been proven wrong again and again and again, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2021-10-06): President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday the only thing he and former President Barack Obama have in common is "that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis." The tweet came after Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, criticized Trump's response to the protests being carried out across the nation since the police killing of George Floyd, an African-American man in Minneapolis, Minn. Trump didn't fire the general. Mattis served as his secretary of Defense from 2017, when he was confirmed by the Senate, until he tendered his resignation in December 2018 as he disagreed with Trump's decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria, according to U.S. officials. In the letter, he said his views and beliefs in foreign policy and strategy didn't align with those of the president.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2021-10-01): Why the haste and chaos from a president who had campaigned as friendly to LGBTQ rights? The careers of trans service members appeared to be a political sacrifice to Trump’s border wall, according to Politico. A group of House conservatives had been threatening to withhold support for a defense-authorization bill that included border-wall funding unless the military stopped covering the costs of gender-reassignment surgery for troops, a move resisted by the defense secretary, James Mattis. The group went over Mattis’s head to Trump, and the president, apparently on a whim, decided instead to casually ban not the surgery, but the service members. "This is like someone told the White House to light a candle on the table and the WH set the whole table on fire," a Republican aide wrote in an email to Politico.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2022-03-18): Members of the administration expected a decision to be made by May 25 when the U.S. would meet with its allies in the NATO summit hosted in Brussels. However, only after an attack killed over 150 people in Kabul, revealing the deteriorating security situation in the country, did Trump authorise Secretary of Defense James Mattis to determine the troop levels needed in Afghanistan, allowing him to deploy up to 4,000 additional troops (Landler & Haberman 2017). While Mattis had the authority to increase the number of U.S. forces, he wanted any decision to be framed within a broader strategic framework for the region, promising the Senate Armed Services Committee that the administration would develop a new strategy for Afghanistan by the early months of summer (Gordon 2017b). [...] Goldberg, J. (2020): James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution. The Atlantic, 4 June, <accessed online: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/>. [...] Gordon, M. (2017a): Trump Gives Mattis Authority to Send More Troops to Afghanistan. The New York Times, 13 June.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2019-05-28): Mattis and Trump had a contentious relationship throughout the retired general’s tenure in the Cabinet. Mattis resigned last December, and his letter to Trump announcing his retirement was widely seen as a rebuke to the president.
Claim: purports Donald Trump and Gen. James Mattis have recently sent troops to the U.S. border (Video, 2023-07-22)
Evidence (2017-11-09): Just a few months ago, Secretary of Defense James Mattis echoed the claim of a worsening global security situation: "Our challenge is characterized by a decline in the long-standing rules-based international order, bringing with it a more volatile security environment than any I have experienced during my four decades of military service."2 Compounding this concern is that much of the geopolitical challenge buffeting the United States is facilitated by efforts and methods outside of the traditional political and military domains of geopolitical competition.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2019-07-12): The Daily Caller found no record of Eliot ever saying or writing this expression.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2011-02-14): "I’ve always assumed it was apocryphal," she wrote. "It shows up nowhere in full text searches of G.E.’s work. What’s strange is not that the attribution is so persistent but that it starts very early." She sent me a link to an article in a New York periodical called The Literary News, published in 1881, less than a year after George Eliot’s death. There, the quotation—"It is never too late to be what you might have been"—is one of seventy-one winning entries in a readers’ competition to nominate "Gems from George Eliot." The terms of the competition were outlined in an issue of the journal from a couple of months earlier: readers were asked to "quote the most striking passage known to you from George Eliot’s writings: not to exceed thirty words." The quotation is No. 23 on the list, between a line from "Middlemarch" ("A woman’s choice usually means taking the only man she can get") and one from "Adam Bede" ("I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men"). But there was no reference to the source. Had the competition entrant come across the quotation in a review? Misremembered it?
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2024-02-01): Never Too Late: Embrace Change with George Eliot [...] In a world that often feels hurried and unforgiving, the enduring words of George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, resonate deeply: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." This simple yet profound statement encapsulates a universal truth relevant across generations and cultures. It speaks to the heart of human experience, emphasising the importance of personal growth and the never-ending potential for change. [...] At the core of Eliot's message is the importance of resilience and persistence. In a fast-paced, success-oriented world, it's easy to feel discouraged by setbacks or to believe that it's too late to change course. However, Eliot's words remind us that every moment offers a new opportunity for growth and reinvention. The journey towards being what one might have been is not about speed or societal standards, but about perseverance and the courage to pursue one's true desires.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2019-08-28): FACT CHECK: Did George Eliot Say, ‘It’s Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been’? An image shared on Facebook claims British author George Eliot said, "It’s never too late to be what you might have been." [...] "George Eliot did not make that statement," said retired Boston College professor Rosemarie Bodenheimer in an email to the Caller. "Nor did she believe what it says."
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2023-09-21): The quote by George Eliot, "It is never too late to be what you might have been," encapsulates a powerful message about the potential for personal growth and self-realization. In straightforward terms, it suggests that no matter the stage of life one finds themselves in, they always have the opportunity to fulfill their untapped potential and become the person they truly desire to be. This quote resonates with individuals who may have felt that their circumstances, past choices, or societal expectations have hindered their pursuit of their true passions and aspirations.What makes this quote truly remarkable is not just its motivational aspect, but also the underlying philosophical concept it introduces. It delves into the realm of existentialism, a philosophical school of thought that emphasizes individuals' freedom and responsibility in creating their own meaning and purpose in life. By suggesting that it is never too late to be what one might have been, the quote aligns with the existentialist notion that individuals have the power to shape their own identity and essence, regardless of external factors or societal constraints.While the quote itself may seem straightforward, the implications are profound.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2023-11-06): Yes, here we are in the middle of a pandemic, but we never stop looking for an author to this quote. Turns out we are not the only ones to investigate who might have said "It is never too late to be what you might have been." According to Garson O’Toole, author of Hemingway Didn’t Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations George Eliot was also said to be the author of these words. Turns out LOTS of people have possibly said this quote. You can read his complete article here. Many thanks to Garson O’Toole for all of his work. [...] This quote from Eric Roth seems, in itself, to border on plagiarism. It is very similar to a George Eliot quote,"it’s never too late to be who you might have been." The George Eliot quote is also a mis-attribution. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/24/never-too-late/
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2023-09-05): George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was a renowned Victorian novelist who presented the world with her powerful literary works. She possessed incredible insight and wisdom, which can be seen in her famous quote, "It is never too late to be what you might have been." This profound statement reflects the notion that despite the passing of time, one can still fulfill their potential and transform themselves into the person they aspire to be. [...] Eliot’s words should not be mistaken as a call for blind optimism or a denial of the obstacles we may face in our pursuit of self-realization. It acknowledges that the path to achieving what we might have been may be arduous and littered with challenges. Yet, it provides us with the courage to face those challenges head-on and persevere in the face of adversity. [...] So, let us embrace this timeless wisdom and release any self-imposed limitations. Let us seize the present moment and embark on the journey to becoming the best version of ourselves. For it is never too late to be what we might have been, and it is never too late to begin anew.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2022-05-27): "It’s never too late to be what you might have been" is a quote from Victorian novelist George Eliot. [...] Better still, it’s never too late to become what you might’ve been—and then some more.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2021-11-06): No, it’s never too late to rediscover yourself and become who you want to be. This quotation by George Eliot is an argument that no matter what mistakes you have made, it’s never too late to change for the better. We can always change for the better, even if it feels like there is no turning back. George Eliot argued in her book "Middlemarch" that mistakes are just moments of confusion which means they have never been too late to make amends. [...] An argument that regardless of what mistakes you made before; it’s never too late. This idea conflicts with some people’s beliefs about themselves because we feel as though once our past transgressions were irreversible but then again others believe differently stating how everyone deserves another chance at redemption.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2024-10-08): George Eliot > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?)
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2023-07-27): As we delve into the wisdom hidden within the captivating world of literature, we often encounter profound insights that remain timeless and ever relevant. Among such profound insights is a quote by Mary Ann Evans, widely known by her pen name, George Eliot, a leading English novelist of the Victorian era. Known for her keen understanding of human nature and realistic narrative, Eliot once famously said, "It is never too late to be what you might have been." This quote serves as a powerful reminder that the constraints we perceive – whether it’s age, time, or fear of change – are often self-imposed. The scope of our potential and our future doesn’t have an expiration date. Each day presents a new opportunity to evolve, grow, and become the person we aspire to be. [...] Embracing the wisdom of George Eliot’s quote, "It is never too late to be what you might have been," can have transformative effects on our daily lives. It serves as a gentle reminder that our potential is not dictated by our past or age but is always accessible, awaiting our decision to embrace it. Here’s how we can apply this quote in our daily lives: [...] George Eliot’s quote, "It is never too late to be what you might have been," serves as a guiding compass for those of us navigating the journey of personal growth and self-discovery. It dismantles the societal norms of age and time, encouraging us to explore our potential and redefine ourselves at any stage of life.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2024-01-24): Inspiration 30+ REASONS WHY IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN The English Victorian novelist and poet George Eliot penned the famous quote, "It is never too late to be what you might have been." It’s a powerful statement that’s packed with a whole lot of optimism combined with truth; which happens to be two things we believe in deeply here at The STRIVE. [...] Why It’s Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been 1. Grant Cardone became a millionaire by the time he was 30 years old, but he struggled with drugs and cleaning up his act all the way to the age of 25.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2013-11-24): Her power is sometimes almost Shakespearian. Like Shakespeare, she gives us a large number of wise sayings, expressed in the pithiest language. The following are a few:— "It is never too late to be what you might have been." [...] From this mistaken notion arose such adages as: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." It would be nearer the truth to say: "It is always too late to be what you might have been." With each advancing year, this becomes an absolute truth in the case of the vast majority who have reached the age of twenty. [...] In conclusion, QI speculates that the quote attributed to George Eliot is traceable to the line written by Adelaide Anne Procter: "We always may be what we might have been". In this scenario Procter’s statement would have been rephrased and then reassigned to Eliot. This process may have occurred in the mind of the individual who sent the quote to "Literary News". Alternatively, the transition may have occurred in multiple steps. Perhaps future research will uncover these intermediary steps. Of course, other hypotheses are not ruled out.
Claim: claims that George Eliot said, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." (Viral Quote, 2019-07-12)
Evidence (2023-08-15): George Eliot’s quote, "It is never too late to become what we might have been," tells us that no matter our age, past choices, or perceived failures, we are never restricted from pursuing our dreams and becoming what we aspire to be. [...] George Eliot’s quote, "It is never too late to become what we might have been," can be a guidepost in your life. If you’ve always longed to write a novel, but time has slipped away, don’t despair. These words remind you that age and time should not be barriers to your dreams. You can begin writing today. [...] Apply this quote daily as a reminder to pursue personal development and chase your dreams. Whether it’s improving your well-being, starting a new hobby, or simply striving to be a better person, Eliot’s wisdom can be a motivating force. It tells you that it’s never too late to become what you’ve always wanted to be.