Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday pushed back on criticisms that the deployment of more than 5,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border was a political stunt from the Trump administration before the midterm elections.
“We don’t do stunts in this department,” Mattis told reporters, according to a Pentagon pool report.
Mattis said that the military support to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Customs and Border Patrol, “is practical support based on the request from the commissioner of customs and border police.”
“We do this following storms, we do this in support of the Department of Homeland Security. This is a different aspect of it, but that’s what we are doing,” Mattis said after meeting with the South Korean defense minister at the Pentagon.
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Mattis shuts down claims that sending troops to the border was a political stunt: "We don’t do stunts" https://t.co/p15prUcv3I pic.twitter.com/poOuvLs4sk
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They are counting on the caravan to not arrive before Tuesday. Good thing for Trump they are taking a “day of rest” today.
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