Opinion: The Trump officials whose silence put book sales ahead of country
CNN
Michael D'Antonio writes that leading Trump officials -- from former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to former Attorney General Bill Barr -- could have drawn serious attention to the former president if they had spoken out during his term in office, but they kept silent when their country needed them. It seems that when the truth mattered most, they chose book sales instead.
These revelations, part of Esper's recent tell-all book, "A Sacred Oath," raise an obvious question: If Trump was even insinuating such reckless ideas, why didn't Esper speak up sooner?
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