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Mattis: ‘I’ve never registered for any political party’

2018-10-16 10:03:09       source:The Washington Post

October 15, 2018


Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he had never spoken to President Trump about leaving his position and was continuing to do his job, a day after Trump derided him as “sort of a Democrat” in an interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” and said “it could be” that the Pentagon chief is leaving his post.


Mattis, who was speaking to reporters en route to Vietnam, said he had never registered for any political party, having joined the military when he was 18 years old and adhered to its apolitical underpinnings as Republicans and Democrats alike came and went as commander in chief. 


“Where am I today? I’m a member of the president’s administration. And you have seen President Trump’s military policies, security policies, reaping significant bipartisan support,” the 68-year-old retired Marine Corps general said, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon. 


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