Trump's Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the former President's handling of this information put U.S. service members' lives and the national security at risk.
Mark Esper: “Trump's Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the former President's handling of this information put U.S. service…”
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Mark Esper criticized Trump's handling of classified documents as a national security risk.
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If I spoke out at the time, I would be fired, number one. And secondly, I had no confidence that anybody that came in behind me would not be a real Trump loyalist, and Lord knows what would have happened then.
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the president was 'unfit' for office, a national security threat and a 'threat to democracy.'