Unlike other one-time members of Donald Trump’s inner circle who have published books in recent weeks, former National Security Adviser HR McMaster Battlegrounds: Fight to save the free world Deprived of dirt about the President.
But Stephen Colbert did not stop trying to get him out when he showed up Late show Monday night.
The host made his first attempt after McMaster spoke out against Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying, “If you’re a dictator and you put people around you who tell you how great you are and what you want to hear, and I think they ‘Saying it again,’ Hey, you’re on top, you’re doing great. ‘ “
“It’s a terrible form of government. It looks like he’s a guy who says he’s the only one who has the answers and he’s just talking to the people around him who want to hear it,” Colbert said with a deep sarcasm. Replied. “Can you imagine such a government, sir?”
“Well, we fought the revolution because we didn’t want to live under a monarchy,” McMaster said, either intentionally or unintentionally ignoring the obvious Trump analogy. “And I think we should still celebrate, Stephen, that we are not a monarchy.”
Colbert replied, “We should,” but some people think that right now Washington D.C. I do not think so. ”
MM Commaster laughed in response but again refused to call his ex-husband directly, advising American voters to draw lessons from the founding fathers. “My hope for Stephen is that we restore confidence in our form of government, in our democracy.” “We have at least some time to be thankful that we have something to say about how we govern.”
Hitting the brick wall that was visible, Colbert took another tack, directly quoting MM Commaster’s book in which he wrote, “Defense begins with exposing the Kremlin’s efforts to disintegrate into nations.” Noting that the president called Russian interference in the US election a “disaster,” he asked, “If you still think Trump is hurting our defense by calling into question whether Russia is doing it?”
“Yes, I think any leader who does not accept the nature of the threat is playing into their hands,” McMaster said, condemning Trump’s specific actions, framing his criticism in the general sense. “What I describe Battlegrounds How President Putin’s playbook combines opposing information with rejection. We don’t want to help them in part of the rejection, so we have to pull back the veil, keep it open, and then make sure we don’t cut them for the success of the sections we’re looking at. In our society. ”
What Russia wants to do, he added, is to “pull us down, polarize and pit us against each other and undermine our confidence in who we are and in our democratic principles and institutions and processes.”
“So, I mean, I would advise any leader not to become our own worst enemy.” “Let’s not make it easy”
“Undermining our faith in democracy will do things like say ‘this will be a tough election’ and ‘if I can’t win, the only way is if it’s tough’ and ‘we never know who really won,'” Colbert said, quoting President Trump directly. “Are these the kind of things that Russians would love to hear the president say?”
“Sure, they are,” McMaster replied. “Those are things we should all avoid saying, absolutely.”
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