Acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan, withdrew from consideration to head the U.S. military on June 18 as reports of domestic violence in his family surfaced. (Reuters)In the months that he has served as President Trump’s acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan has worked to keep domestic violence incidents within his family private. “Use of a baseball bat in self-defense will likely be viewed as an imbalance of force,” Shanahan wrote. Another physical altercation ensued, with police records indicating that Kimberley Shanahan swung at Patrick Shanahan. In the custody filing is the four-page memo Patrick Shanahan wrote at the time.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2019 16:58 UTC