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Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis didn’t favorably receive former Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s repeated requests to get the retired Marine Corps general to appear on numerous talk shows, according to an excerpt from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House."
According to one passage in the book, an exasperated Mattis, having answered “no” a number of times already, lashed out at Spicer, who is an officer in the Navy Reserve .
“Sean, I’ve killed people for a living," the secretary of defense said. "If you call me again, I’m going to f--king send you to Afghanistan. Are we clear?”
To date, Mattis has appeared only once on a network television show, when he added to his long list of Mattisisms after “Face of the Nation" host John Dickerson asked what tumultuous world affairs keep the retired general awake at night.
“Nothing. I keep other people awake at night,” he quickly countered.