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“I had no choice but to leave,” General James Mattis says of his decision to resign as President Trump’s secretary of defense.
- Jeffrey Goldberg
Dec 21, 2018 · Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced his resignation Thursday afternoon, sending President Donald Trump a letter that implicitly criticized the president's military judgment.
Dec 21, 2018 · Defense Secretary James Mattis resigned Thursday on the heels of President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw troops from Syria. He cited irreconcilable policy differences in a move that took...
Dec 20, 2018 · In his resignation letter, Defense Secretary James Mattis appeared to point to his policy differences with President Donald Trump, who has frequently clashed with U.S. allies.
- Afghanistan Pullout
- Troops at The U.S.-Mexico Border
- Transgender Troop Ban
- South Korean Military Exercises
- The Space Force
- NATO and U.S. Allies
The Associated Press reported Thursday night that Trump is planning to order a dramatic reduction in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, pulling up to half of the 14,000 U.S. forces out of the country after 17 years of war. Mattis has arguedfor sending additional resources there to end the war and stabilize the country. “We are going to stand...
When the White House released a memo authorizing troopsdeployed to the U.S.-Mexico border to use lethal force, if necessary, against what Trump called an “invasion” of migrants, Mattis clarified that the troops wouldn’t even have firearms. “They’re not even carrying guns, for Christ’s sake,” he said.
Mattis also pushed back on Trump’s proposed banon transgender service members. Mattis was on vacation during Trump’s surprise Twitter announcement, and had reportedly only been given one day’s notice of Trump’s intention to reverse the Obama-era decision allowing transgender people to openly serve. In the months that followed, Mattis effectively sl...
A day after Mattis told reporters there were “no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises” with South Korea, Trump tweetedthat they would cease. “The President believes that his relationship with Kim Jong Un is a very good and warm one,” Trump posted to his personal twitter account in third-person. “There is no reason at this time to be spe...
Though he eventually offered support to Trump’s plan to establish a “Space Force,” Mattis initially broke with Trump on its creation as a separate branch in the military. “I strongly urge Congress to reconsider the proposal of a separate service Space Corps,” Mattis wrote to lawmakersin July 2017. “I believe it is premature to add additional organi...
Mattis was also a firm believer in NATO’s power to preserve global peace. “If you didn’t have NATO, you would have to invent it,” Mattis said, according to reporting by veteran journalist Bob Woodward. Trump ceded to Mattis on the matter. “You can have your NATO,” Woodward reported Trump told Mattis, “but you become the rent collector.” In his resi...
Sep 2, 2019 · Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis served as President Trump’s first defense secretary, resigning his post in protest after Trump announced he would pull U.S. forces out of Syria. Now,...
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Dec 21, 2018 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday after clashing with President Donald Trump over the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and after two years of deep disagreements over America's role in the world.
