Gen. Mattis Withdraws Pro-Brotherhood Pick
By Ryan Mauro0 CommentsMuslim BrotherhoodEgypt, Ibrahim, Iran Deal, Israel, Mattis, Muslim Brotherhood, Patterson, President Morsi, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, Tom Cotton, Trump
Secretary of Defense General Mattis has withdrawn his choice for the top civilian position in the Defense Department, Anne Patterson, after she was criticized from multiple angles, chiefly because of her coziness with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. But the question remains: Why pick her in the first place? In addition, we're learning of several other questionable holdovers from the Obama Administration remaining in the Trump Administration (so far, it's still early). Mattis is an enemy of Islamism, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian regime. That's what made his choice of Patterson, former President Obama's ambassador to Egypt -- best known…