President Trump is already looking for a replacement for General Mattis at the Department of Defense. The Daily Caller reports:
Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced his intention Thursday evening to retire in late February, with President Donald Trump noting that he would name his successor in the coming days.
….equipment. General Mattis was a great help to me in getting allies and other countries to pay their share of military obligations. A new Secretary of Defense will be named shortly. I greatly thank Jim for his service!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018
Mattis’s announcement ignited a fire of speculation in Washington as to who would replace the most respected member of Trump’s cabinet.
Mattis resigned from the administration over several disagreements with Trump on foreign policy, particularly in light of recent decisions to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria and draw down the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
Mattis’s resignation letter laid out several areas of disagreement with Trump’s world view noting, “because you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views better align with yours….I believe it is right for me to step down from my position.”
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This is creating a greater workload for Trump’s staff to find another cabinet member.
sad loss this is because trump listens to his evis son-in-lsw jared Kushner. also listens to stephen miller. both jared and stephen come from holocaust families and have thrown middle east allies as Israel, kurds, Jordan to the villians in the middle east especially Russia, iran and Syria; countries that kill their own people without hesitation. Russia has, once again, put its foot in to the middle east when it took many years to get murderous Russia out of middle east you have done it trump with your incompetent advisors. i hope Pompeo and Bolton quit as well. this is a disgrace by removing our troops from Syria so our allies can be slaughtered. you have lost my vote in 2020.