James Mattis condemned the president’s handling of the protests, while the current Pentagon chief opposes deploying the military. Plus, the whirlwind romances of lockdown.
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The last two US secretaries of defense have both voiced stiff opposition to Donald Trump’s handling of the George Floyd protests. Mark Esper, the current Pentagon chief, said categorically on Tuesday that he did not support invoking the Insurrection Act to allow active duty troops to be deployed in American cities, as the president has threatened. And in an extraordinary broadside, published by the Atlantic, Esper’s predecessor James Mattis said he was “angry and appalled” by the behaviour of his former boss:
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