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James Mattis

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Relationship to Trumpdefense secretary in Trump's first administrationpolitical / 2 sources

Trump's first secretary of defense, who resigned in December 2018 citing the president's right to a secretary whose views were better aligned.

Former defense secretary publicly condemning Trumprelationship / 2020-06-03–2020-06-03Defense secretary departure accelerated to December 31, 2018office / 2018-12-31–2018-12-31Former defense secretaryoffice / 2017-01-20–2018-12-31

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  1. former defense secretarypoliticaldocumented · 3 files · 3 source references
  2. former defense secretary who resigned over policy differencespoliticaldocumented · 1 file · 2 source references

Money, power & fallout

  1. Mattis becomes Trump's first defense secretaryServed as defense secretary from January 2017 through December 2018defense secretary in Trump's first administration · documented · 2 sources
  2. Mattis resigns over differences with TrumpFormer secretary of defenseformer defense secretary who resigned over policy differences · documented · 2 sources
  3. Trump pushes Mattis out early after publishing his resignation letterFormer defense secretaryformer defense secretary · documented · 1 source
  4. Mattis breaks his silence and accuses Trump of abusing military power against AmericansPublicly estranged from Trumpformer defense secretary · documented · 1 source
  5. Mattis says Trump fomented the Capitol assault through falsehoods and political intimidationAttributed assessment from former defense secretaryformer defense secretary · documented · 1 source
Source: Monica King / United States Department of Defense · Rights/use: CC BY 2.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/; resized and encoded derivative · Modified: cropped and resized