Trump says Mattis is 'sort of a Democrat’

Military Times: On Sunday President Donald Trump raised new questions on the political fate of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis when he told ’60 Minutes’ journalist Lesley Stahl that he thinks the career military officer may be “some sort of Democrat."

The comment raised new questions about Mattis’ future in the Pentagon’s top job: Was this the kiss of death for Trump’s favored general?

“Not necessarily,” said Jim Carafano, a national security expert at the conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation.

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