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Pentagon-Trump clash breaks open over military and protests

Washington | President Donald Trump's Pentagon chief shot down his idea of using troops to quell protests across the United States Wednesday in an extraordinary clash between the US military and its commander in chief.

Both Mr Trump and Defence Secretary Mark Esper also drew stinging, rare public criticism from Mr Trump's first defence secretary, Jim Mattis, in the most public pushback of Mr Trump's presidency from the men he put at the helm of the world's most powerful military.

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