Former Defense chief: I would have threatened to resign over Trump's transgender ban
Source: The Hill
A former secretary of Defense on Friday blasted President Trump for his ban on transgender Americans serving in the armed forces and said that he would have threatened to resign over the order.
Former President Clinton Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who previously served as a Republican House lawmaker from Maine, told Sirius XM's "The Joe Madison Show" that Trump abused his power as president when he went around his Defense secretary, James Mattis.
"If you were the secretary of Defense and that tweet came out, what would you have done the next morning or the next day?" host Joe Madison asked Cohen.
"I would have called the president, asked for a meeting with the president," Cohen responded. "Mr. President, before you ever make a tweet or send a tweet or make a decision without consulting me, then you'll find a new secretary of Defense."
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