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Jim Acosta ✔@Acosta
Senior WH official says Esper's remarks this morning were received "very poorly" at WH.
12:09 PM - Jun 3, 2020
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Kaitlan Collins ✔@kaitlancollins
Esper's press conference this a.m. is not going over well at the White House, where officials were unaware of what he was going to say. He had already been on thin ice with POTUS, who had been venting about him in recent weeks, per sources to @ZcohenCNN and me.
12:20 PM - Jun 3, 2020
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Kaitlan Collins ✔@kaitlancollins
Trump's had a tenuous relationship with many Cabinet officials, but wild to see the WH refuse to say he has confidence in the Pentagon chief. "As of now, Secretary Esper is still Secretary Esper....Should [he] lose faith, we will all learn about that in the future," McEnany says.
2:25 PM - Jun 3, 2020
imanamerican63
(13,802 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Thank God someone with an eye on their own posterity and the well being of the country stood up to the bully.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Now he's trying to run away from something that in another context might be charged as a war crime. Trump doesn't like failure of nerve, especially when it exposes him to criticism (note that I purposely didn't say responsibility).
Mark him gone.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)I'm sure some scumbag conservative group will hire him. He finally found that he had balls I suppose.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)...not be around, and distancing himself from him.
So maybe hes not found courage or morality so much as hes less scared of Drumpf than of whats ahead if he goes along with Drumpf, once Drumpf is gone.
kentuck
(111,104 posts)Would not want to piss off the Dear Leader.
Baitball Blogger
(46,740 posts)essme
(1,207 posts)shocked, I tell ya.
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)tanyev
(42,572 posts)"I repeat, meltdown level 9!"