The Wall Street Journal claims the president planned to fire the senior minister because the latter opposed the US military deployment on the streets • Asper himself was preparing for the possibility
US President Donald Trump wanted to fire his secretary of defense, Mark Asper, after he opposed deploying U.S. military forces to disperse violent protests that took place after George Floyd's strangulation by police, he reported tonight ( Third) The Wall Street Journal.
According to the report, Trump was furious with Asper, but his advisers recommended the immediate dismissal of the Secretary of Defense. At the time, I was aware of the wrath of the president and began to plan his resignation, partly because of the controversy that had arisen regarding the role of the US military. Asper began drafting a resignation letter but his associates convinced him to drop his intention.
Remember, last week, at the height of the riots across the United States, President Trump called on U.S. governors to take over the protests, and even threatened to run the military against protesters where governors would not exert force to suppress the riots.
"Last option, don't support it"
Asfer addressed Trump's proposal, during a Pentagon press briefing that the law is a last resort for law enforcement in the state and he does not want military action on U.S. soil. Last in a situation of urgent and bleak danger, "Asper said.
"We are not in one of these situations right now. I do not support the use of the uprising law," the defense minister added. Asper referred to the use he made of the term "combat area" and argued that it was the use of a word from the military lexicon to describe a non-military situation. "It's a term we use on a daily basis. It's part of the military lexicon I grew up on. It's not a term that is meant for people. I had to use other words," Asper admitted.
The Secretary of State's fear of being fired was not unfounded, in the past senior Trump officials in his administration who disagreed with him or publicly contradicted him. One of the most prominent dismissals of Trump's tenure was the dismissal of Jeff Sessions, Secretary of Justice and Trump's attorney general, after refusing to intervene in the investigation of the president's campaign team relations with Russia due to Sessions's possible involvement in the affair.
