Major General (ret) Paul Eaton Profile picture
National Security advisor; retired Soldier, @VoteVets, gold star family.CNN contributor.
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Aug 12, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
During my time in the military, I held clearance to handle some of the more sensitive materials we had, including those marked Top Secret / SCI. Sources (people) and methods (expensive) - to be protected.

[THREAD 🧵] Every American should be extraordinarily thankful that the FBI recovered such materials from Mar-a-Lago and Trump.

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Jun 2, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
As the former Commanding General of the Infantry Center at Fort Benning and Chief of Infantry, I know a bit about weapons. Let me state unequivocally — For all intents and purposes, the AR-15 and rifles like it are weapons of war. A thread: Those opposed to assault weapon bans continue to play games with AR-15 semantics, pretending there’s some meaningful differences between it and the M4 carbine that the military carries. There really aren’t. 2/