Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis broke his silence on the conduct of President Trump today, blasting him and top military leaders and saying he is “angry and appalled” with the events of the past week
Even as Esper reversed a decision to send home active-duty troops on alert to respond to unrest in the national capital region on Wednesday, Mattis argued for deploying the military at home only on “very rare occasions,” and only at the request of state governors.
He cited Esper’s decision to pose in a “bizarre photo op” outside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., after Attorney General Bill Barr ordered the clearing of protesters on Monday night. Esper said on Wednesday that he hadn’t known ahead of time that the photo op was happening. Mattis also urged the public to reject Esper’s characterization of American cities as a “‘battlespace’ that our uniformed military is called upon to ‘dominate,'” referring to the defense secretary’s comments comments to governors on Monday.
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