Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times – An Instant New York Times Bestseller: A Pentagon Insider's Tumultuous Years Under President Trump
by Mark T. Esper
- Length
- 749 pages
- Published
- May 10, 2022
- Publisher
- William Morrow
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- Trump Wanted To Activate Generals to Court-Martial Them
According to a copy of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s memoir, A Sacred Oath, former President Donald Trump demanded that former Gen. Stan McChrystal and former Navy Admiral William McRaven be recalled into active duty so that they could be court-martialed for criticizing the…
- Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico
“Former President Donald Trump asked Mark Esper, his defense secretary, about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to ‘destroy the drug labs’ and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the United States’ involvement in a strike against its southern neighbor could be kept secret,…
- Trump Wanted to Shoot Protesters
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a new memoir that former President Donald Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?,”…
- Esper Memoir of Trump Tenure to Move Ahead
A memoir by the former defense secretary, Mark Esper, about his tenure in the Trump administration will be published with “minimal redactions” after he sued the agency he once led because it wanted to block information in the manuscript, the New York Times reports.
- Mark Esper Sues Pentagon Over His Memoir
“Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday sued the agency he once led, accusing officials at the Pentagon of improperly blocking significant portions of an upcoming memoir about his tumultuous tenure under President Donald Trump,” the New York Times reports.