The Pentagon’s new uniformed, on-camera briefer will defend Trump administration policy, but will steer clear of politics, according to a uniformed Pentagon spokesman, who says he does the same thing every day.
“I talk about transgender policy, I talk about South Asia policy, and he’ll do the same,” said Col. Rob Manning, the director of press operations for the Pentagon, who holds semi-regular, off-camera briefings for reporters who are in the building.
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