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Mark Esper
October 15, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Ex-Trump Official Issues Dire Warning on “Enemy From Within” Comment
Mark Esper, Donald Trump’s former defense secretary, is warning America to take Trump’s military threat seriously.
September 9, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Harris Hits Trump Where it Hurts in Brutal Pre-Debate Ad
Kamala Harris has turned the words of Donald Trump’s ex-advisers against him.
July 29, 2024
Robert Schlesinger
J.D. Vance Proves It: Trump Hires the Very Worst People
Trump’s new running mate will haunt him just like all of the fools and weasels from his first administration.
June 19, 2023
Tori Otten
Donald Trump’s Former Attorney General Thinks He’s a Child
The former president is also seen as a national security risk by many of the people who worked closest with him in his former administration.
May 20, 2022
Mary L. Trump
Mark Esper’s Fascinating Revelations Would Have Been Far More So in Real Time
If he and John Bolton and Bill Barr and all the other “adults in the room” had spoken up when it mattered, history could be different.
June 26, 2020
J. Davis Winkie
How the Confederates Conquered America’s “Home of the Infantry”
It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.
June 11, 2020
Adam Weinstein
America’s Top General Isn’t That Sorry
Mark Milley apologized for his photo op with Trump, but not for the violence he visited on American protesters.
June 3, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Are You Really Surprised by Our Authoritarian President?
For many of his mainstream critics, Trump is forever on the verge of finally going too far.
April 13, 2020
Jason Dempsey
How Donald Trump Ruined the Navy
The bungled response to a coronavirus outbreak on an aircraft carrier reveals a deeper crisis among the president's obsequious military appointees.
January 6, 2020
Adam Weinstein
Mike Pompeo Is the Most Dangerous Man in the World Right Now
The Soleimani assassination and its aftermath suggest that America's top diplomat is really the viceroy of its national security establishment.
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