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Multiple former Trump aides cashed in with dishy memoirs that flopped in sales, report says
Tell-all books by ex-Trump aides Mark Meadows, Kellyanne Conway, and Stephanie Grisham got lots of …
Grace Panetta
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Trump is 'incapable of winning elections' and gave an 'uninspiring' 2024 announcement, his former defense secretary Mark Esper says
"He's done more to help the Democrats than he has Republicans," Mark Esper said of his old boss, Do…
Oma Seddiq
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Mark Esper said Trump told him to 'get rid of' impeachment witness Alexander Vindman
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper documented a White House campaign to punish Lt. Col. Alexander …
Brent D. Griffiths
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Mark Esper says he prevented 'dangerous things' like military action against Venezuela and a blockade of Cuba while serving under Trump
Esper said he and Gen. Mark Milley came up with a system of 'Four Nos' to swat down wild ideas when…
Cheryl Teh
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This is the $13 billion US Navy aircraft carrier Trump constantly complained looked 'really bad,' according to his former defense chief
Trump's former defense secretary said that he had tried to address Trump's complaints about the shi…
Julie Coleman
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Trump's former defense secretary painted the ex-president as a national security risk in memoir on his time in Pentagon
Trump was an "idiosyncratic, unpredictable, and unpricipled commander in chief," Esper wrote in his…
John Haltiwanger
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Trump saw US allies like Merkel and Trudeau as 'weak' but adversaries like Putin and Xi as 'strong,' his former Pentagon chief said
Experts on authoritarianism and democracy have said Trump's behavior as president emboldened and en…
John Haltiwanger
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Trump's defense chief says he was accused of disloyalty after he refused to back claims the slain Iranian Maj. Gen. Soleimani was planning to attack 4 US Embassies
"A trusted colleague told me that some of Trump's friends called to report on me, complaining that …
John L. Dorman,John Haltiwanger
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Trump's former Pentagon chief Mark Esper tells Fox News that the ex-president 'threatens our democracy'
Esper on Monday characterized Trump as a threat to US democracy — a remarkable rebuke of a pr…
John Haltiwanger
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Mark Esper says Trump's refusal to attend Biden's presidential inauguration was 'a final act of petulance': book
Trump "defied tradition, tarnished our democracy, and further damaged Biden's legitimacy with milli…
John L. Dorman
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'It looks horrible': Trump was obsessed with 'the look' of the Navy's new aircraft carrier and thought it would 'never work,' his former defense secretary says
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper writes he "tried to explain the issues to the president many ti…
Julie Coleman
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Trump wanted to court-martial the retired Navy SEAL who led the bin Laden raid for criticizing him, former defense chief says
Mark Esper writes that Trump said retired Navy admiral William McRaven was "so disloyal" because th…
Brent D. Griffiths,Abbie Shull
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Mark Esper says the Trump campaign's months-long effort to challenge the 2020 election was 'a national embarrassment': book
"I never imagined ... that these challenges would go on and on, and play out through November, Dece…
John L. Dorman
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Trump was the 'biggest leaker of all' in his administration and it was 'generally bad' for the country, his former Pentagon chief says
"Leaks were a chronic problem" in the Trump administration, Esper said in his new book, and those i…
John Haltiwanger
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Trump 'didn't seem to care' that the law required him to release millions in aid to Ukraine that he froze while pressuring Zelenskyy, his ex-Pentagon chief says
Mark Esper says telling Trump that it was illegal to withhold US aid to Ukraine wasn't enough to co…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Trump hit back at Mark Esper's series of damaging claims, saying his former defense chief was so useless he had to 'run the military' himself
Esper made damaging claims about the former president in a "60 Minutes" interview, including that T…
Tom Porter
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Trump reportedly suggested launching missiles into Mexico to 'destroy the drug labs,' former defense secretary Mark Esper says
Esper recounted that, after he objected to the proposal, Trump said "we could just shoot some Patri…
Lauren Frias
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Stephen Miller wanted to dip ISIS leader's decapitated head in pig's blood and parade it around as a warning to other terrorists, says Esper
Miller has denied advocating for what would likely be a war crime, calling former Defense Secretary…
Bryan Metzger
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Mark Esper says he was 'flabbergasted' by Stephen Miller's plan to send 250,000 troops to the US Southern border
"Again, we don't have 250,000 US troops to send to the border. And to do what? It's just ridiculous…
Grace Panetta
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Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says Trump wanted to 'shoot' demonstrators protesting George Floyd's death: book
"Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?" Trump reportedly asked of th…