The General Who Told Trump What He Didn’t Want to Hear

Article/Op-Ed in In the Room with Peter Bergen
Sept. 17, 2024

In Episode 68 of his podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen interviews H.R. McMaster on his time as Trump's National Security Adviser.

H.R. McMaster, a decorated lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and an historian, served as the second national security advisor to President Donald Trump. He recently published a non-partisan yet blistering account of his time in the White House. Hear what McMaster says Trump got right on foreign policy, where things went wrong, and what he thinks Trump’s character would mean for a second term.

Listen to the episode on Audible