Trump fires Pentagon chief while still not admitting electoral defeat

For Donald Trump, this was one more Monday at the office.

The Republican still does not acknowledge the electoral defeat declared last Saturday, has not received the president-elect, Democrat Joe Biden, in the Oval Office, as tradition dictates, and continues to rule and govern as if nothing had happened.

So much so that this noon he announced, in true Trumpian style - in a Twitter message, capital letters and exclamation points - the dismissal of the head of the Pentagon, Mark Esper.

This had exposed the president last summer on account of the riots in the cities, which the president wanted to stop using the Army.

With the termination, Trump shows that he plans to die by killing.

“I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected National Director of the Counterterrorism Center (confirmed unanimously in the Senate), will serve as Acting Secretary of Defense effective immediately.

Chris will do a GREAT job!

Mark Esper has been fired.

I would like to thank you for your service, ”the president posted on his Twitter account.

Hours earlier, he had welcomed the latest news regarding the investigation of the coronavirus vaccine and the acceleration that it caused in the Stock Exchanges.

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech had announced that it was "90% effective."

I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be Acting Secretary of Defense, effective immediately ..

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020

While Biden also follows his own path, he sets up the advisory council for Covid and a transition team from his city, Wilmington (Delaware);

90 minutes from there, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a president remains obsessed in a judicial battle to overturn the electoral results.

Trump does not speak to the press, nor does he have events called, but he continues to tweet and does not forget his enemies.

The public clash with Mark Esper took place this summer, when the Republican threatened to deploy the Army in the streets, without the approval of the States, in order to contain the violent derivative of the protests against racism, which were mostly peaceful. .

“I do not support the invocation of the Insurrection Law”, said the head of the Pentagon, “these measures should only be used as a last resort and in the most urgent and extreme situations.

We are not in one of those situations now.

"I have always thought that the National Guard is better suited to deal with internal issues," he stressed.