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“I haven’t asked for a pardon nor plan to do so,” a prominent national security lawyer told the Daily Beast.
“There’s no way I’ll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that’s where I’m at,” Esper said.
On CNN, Mark Esper detailed the gravity of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents: “You cannot have these documents floating around. They need to be secured.”
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“Her presence was unexpected, to say the least,” wrote former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.
“Why did you wait to put it in a book?” the “Late Show” host asked. “Doesn’t that seem like you’re trying to sell books instead of protect the country?”
“With regard to shooting missiles into Mexico, yes, I thought that was an act of war. It was illegal,” Esper replied, rebutting the ‘Fox & Friends’ host.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper wrote in his memoir that Trump’s constant leaks were “generally bad for the country.”
Former DefSec Mark Esper says top general told him he nearly quit on the spot in the Oval Office at the unhinged president’s outburst during the George Floyd protests.
Asked whether it was true that he had suggested the U.S. attack Mexico’s “drug cartels with missiles,” the ex-president had an uncharacteristic answer.
The then-president spitballed that they could “just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly,” according to Mark Esper.