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How Many Times Are Former WH Staffers Going to Say Trump Was out of Control?

Esper’s tale of Trump administration chaos is redundant

Manny Otiko
4 min readMay 9, 2022
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Sometimes it feels as if we’ll never get over former President Donald Trump’s reign of error. Even though he’s been out of the White House for almost two years, we’re still feeling reverberations from his time in office.

There has been a long string of former Trump administration officials who have written exposés about their chaotic time in the White House. Many of these people joined the Trump White House not to serve the country, but to line their pockets. Corruption was the order of the day in the Trump White House with the president and his family members treating the government like it was an open buffet. We shouldn’t have expected anything different from the people supposed to be running the government.

Harvesting Gossip

It seems many people joined the Trump administration to get frontline gossip they could put in their books. And, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s “A Sacred Oath” is just another one of these books.

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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