I wonder how many other individuals were offered the position and turned it down ?
Someone who's up to speed on what's going on ie Gen.Mattis or someone else of his caliber might have been better suited and then again they might have turned down the offer of SecDef.

Bit of a read and it speaks volumes in some aspects.
Some of you have read this and some have not so I'll post it again .

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