Former Pentagon chief Jim Mattis issued a stinging rebuke of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of trying to “divide” America and failing to provide “mature leadership” as the country reels from days of protests. Mattis, who resigned in December 2018 over Trump’s ordering of a full troop ...
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has stated that he doesn’t support President Donald Trump’s idea of using the Insurrection Act in order to deploy military forces in American cities to quell the ongoing violent riots, which were originally sparked by the death of African-American man George Floyd. He opined ...