3
Shared Docs
3
Same-Page
3 / 3
Mentions
ve won against ISIS," contradicting Department of Defense assessments, and ordered the withdrawal of all troops from Syria.(393113941 The next day, Mattis resigned in protest, calling his decision an abandonment of the U.S.'s Kurdish allies who played a key role in fighting ISIS.f3951 One week after hi
sidents—more change in the first 13 months than his four immediate predecessors saw in their first two years.14361 Notable early departures included National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (after just 25 days in office), and Press Secretary Sean Spiceriag Close personal aides to Trump including Steve Bannon, Hope
s through their confirmation hearings,” he said of the business-and-military 1950s-type cabinet choices. “Tillerson is two days, Session is two days, Mattis is two days... .” Bannon veered from “Mad Dog” Mattis—the retired four-star general whom Trump had nominated as secretary of defense—to a long riff
s who got us in all these wars ... It’s not a deep bench.” Bannon said he’d tried to push John Bolton, the famously hawkish diplomat, for the job as National Security Advisor. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. “He’s a bomb thrower,” said Ailes. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him. Who else is good on I
fruit salad they wore, the better. The president was very pleased with the compliments he got for appointing generals who commanded the respect that Mattis and Kelly and McMaster were accorded (pay no attention to Michael Flynn). What the president did not like was /istening to generals, who, for the mos
December. Hicks missed this point; later, it had to be highlighted for the president by Bannon. Three people in the Trump administration—the former National Security Advisor, the current attorney general, and the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law—had now been directly connected to the Russian diplomat. To
Entities connected to both Mattis and National Security

Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
Donald Trump
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSON
Stephen Hawking
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Department of Justice
ORGANIZATION
Michael Cohen
PERSON
Ghislaine Maxwell
PERSON
Virginia Giuffre
PERSON
Joe Biden
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Bloomberg L.P.
ORGANIZATION
Mike Pence
PERSON
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Prince Andrew
PERSON
Michael Jackson
PERSONLeon Black
PERSON
George Mitchell
PERSON
Mike Pompeo
PERSON