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TA00047130 messy circumstances surrounaing spencer s exit snouia not overshadow another damning resignation letter from another Trump appointee. Spencer explained that he has strived over two-plus years on the job to ensure judicial proceedings are "fair, transparent and consistent," from ensigns to
mber when he resigned as secretary of defense to protest Trump ordering U.S. troops to withdraw from Syria, but there are echoes. Both Spencer and Mattis said Trump deserves someone whose views are better aligned with his own. Spencer was ousted over his efforts to resolve a dispute between the Whit
ichard V. Spencer's Sunday letter to President Trump, acknowledging his "termination" as secretary of the navy. The messy circumstances surrounding Spencer's exit should not overshadow another damning resignation letter from another Trump appointee. Spencer explained that he has strived over two-plus y
ember when he resigned as secretary of defense to protest Trump ordering U.S. troops to withdraw from Syria, but there are echoes. Both Spencer and Mattis said Trump deserves someone whose views are better aligned with his own. Spencer was ousted over his efforts to resolve a dispute between the White
Trump presidency as a personal victory, was organizing his trip to CPAC, which would be as much a victory march for him as it was for the Trump team. Spencer—who, in 2016, he had declared, “Let’s party like it’s 1933,” as in the year Hitler came to power—provoked an outcry with his widely covered “Heil Tru
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
Bedminster continuing to threaten North Korea— and also, inexplicably to almost everyone on his staff, threatening military intervention in Venezuela—Spencer called for an evening protest. At 8:45 p.m.—with the president in for the night in Bedminster—about 250 young men dressed in khaki pants and polo sh
approaching the boiling point. Trump had already authorized the Pentagon to deploy the troop resources it believed were needed, but Defense Secretary Mattis refused to act without a specific authorization from the president. Trump would finally have to make the call—unless he could find a way to put it of
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Stephen Hawking
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Michael Jackson
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Joe Biden
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Marc Rich
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John F. Kennedy
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