Trump wanted to shut down every U.S. embassy in Africa, former defense secretary says.
, which is out Tuesday. He recently sat down for an glossy interview withduring which he spoke at length about the “bad” and “dangerous” moves Trump was pushing ahead of the 2020 election, and how he and others in the Trump administration had to work to convince the president to reconsider. He listed Trump’s desire to take military action against Venezuela, to strike Iran, and to blockade Cuba.
“It seemed every few weeks something like this would come up and we would have to swat him down,” Esper toldMark Esper says that Cabinet members had to keep Trump from doing “bad things, terrible things” that would have taken the country in a “dark direction.”
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