Trump says he personally ran US military as his defence secretary was ‘a lightweight’

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Trump says he personally ran US military as his defence secretary was ‘a lightweight’
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‘Mark Esper was a stiff who was desperate not to lose his job’

to whether he asked if he could “attack the drug cartels with missiles”, he refuted other claims Mr Esper made, including one in which Mr Trump had contended at a White House meeting that the then defence secretary had taken away his authority on invoking the Insurrection Act.

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