Presidential elections in the US, live | Trump fires his defense secretary, Mark Esper

Donald Trump has fired his defense secretary, Mark Esper, on Twitter, and has appointed Christopher C. Miller, current director of the National Center against Terrorism, in his place, on an interim basis. Esper's departure, which was "liquidated", as Trump himself wrote, is the first step the president has taken after confirming his defeat to Joe Biden on Saturday. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy , Josep Borrell, meanwhile, has said that he trusts that with Biden's victory “relations between Europe and the United States will be more positive.” In an interview on the SER network this Monday, Borrell explained that “these four years have there have been disagreements in substance and form ”between Brussels and the US Four days after the elections and after a drop-in scrutiny, the triumphs in Pennsylvania and Nevada gave Democrat Joe Biden the victory over Donald Trump. The result has converted In addition, Kamala Harris is the first woman to hold the vice presidency in the country's history. "I will be the first, but I will not be the last," said Harris. Trump, for his part, has not recognized his defeat and continues to insist on l legal actions for the “true winner” to be proclaimed. In his first message of the day, Trump celebrated the announcement by Pfizer and Biontech that their vaccine is more than 90% effective and the impact it has had on the stock market. [See here what remains to be told]