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Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic: James Mattis Has Somehow Stayed on Trump's Good Side
While the president has railed against other Cabinet officials, the defense secretary has avoided his wrath—so far.
President Trump undermined Rex Tillerson before firing him on Tuesday. He has railed against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter; chided H.R. McMaster, the national-security adviser, also on Twitter; and pushed back against claims by John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, that the border wall would never be built. But there is one high-profile Cabinet official who has never publicly been on the president’s wrong side: Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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WNU Editor: U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has stayed away from domestic politics .... more focused on running the Pentagon and overseeing America's military alliances and wars/conflicts. The Democrats have also given him a pass .... their questions to him have always been focused and his responses have always been straight forward. If he was directly involved in politics .... I am sure it would be a different story.
