Donald Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper - who's next on the list?

After losing the US election, Donald Trump cleans his own cabinet during the last few meters of his term in office.

More could follow after Mark Esper.

• Donald Trump * dismisses his

  Secretary of Defense

  Mark Esper on Twitter *.

• Mark Esper

  had refused to use the army against "

  Black Lives Matter

  ".

• Trump News *: All information about the elected President of the United States of America

Update, November 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.:

Even if

does not want to

his defeat in the

, he seems willing to take personal consequences.

FBI chief Christopher Wray is said to be on the verge of being fired.

And another prominent name is making the rounds: Anthony Fauci.

Donald Trump

himself had

flirted with his supporters

before the

to fire the top virologist after November 3rd.

The problem with this: Trump cannot fire Fauci at all.

The immunologist is not a political official and therefore does not answer directly to the

.

Donald Trump draws the consequences and fires Mark Esper

First report from November 9th, 2020

USA - four months.

That was the half-life of former

US

.

has put his thumb on the man who was washed into the office of Defense Secretary by the defense company Raytheon lobbyist after Esper's predecessor

resigned.

Trump had previously ordered a large part of the US armed forces stationed in Syria to be withdrawn and the rulers of Turkey and Russia,

and

, to leave the field.

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The latest victim in Donald Trump's revenge: Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

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Mark Esper stood in for James Mattis to become Secretary of Defense under Donald Trump

The former Lieutenant Colonel

without ever being

noticed

as a

politician.

The former senior executive of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and political director of the House Armed Services Committee under George W. Bush took over an ejected seat from which five predecessors in the past three presidencies had already shot out of the chair prematurely.

Now Wall Street Journal reports Donald Trump was 'on the brink' of firing Pentagon chief Mark Esper after Esper didn't want to use active-duty troops against 'Black Lives Matter' protests.

Trump attacks against @WSJ in 3.2.1 .....

- Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) June 10, 2020

Mark Esper

had

up with Republican *

weeks ago

.

Trump urged his

to deploy troops domestically when the civil rights movement "

" took to the streets.

Donald Trump wanted to apply the "Insurrection Act", which allows the president to use the military domestically under certain circumstances.

Esper refused.

Such a step should only be the "last resort" that can be used in the "most urgent and worst" situations.

A situation that Donald Trump, unlike his Secretary of Defense, obviously saw when thousands

demonstrated

against police violence against blacks in the

.

Trump sent the National Guard instead.

The last US Secretary of Defense

Mark Esper refused to use the US Army against "Black Lives Matter" - against the orders of Donald Trump

The refusal of his defense minister angered

such an extent that he considered replacing

as early as the summer of 2020, according to consistent US media reports.

In addition, there was the dispute over the Confederate flag, the flag of the southern states, which

was used like nothing else for the continuation of the slave trade

in the

Civil War

from 1861 to 1865.

Trump wanted to allow his supporters inside to wave the flag on demonstrations, Esper spoke out against it.

Nevertheless, the now former

not to expressly prohibit the use of the flag.

Trump just announced that he's "terminated" Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

Last week Esper hinted that he was looking to resign anyway.

The collapse of the Trump administration is well underway.

- Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) November 9, 2020

Mark Esper is said to have already expected to be removed from the office of

after the US election 2020 *

, which is why, according to information from the "New York Times", he had already prepared a resignation on Thursday (November 5th, 2020) in order to close to his to anticipate safe discharge.

The spokesman for the Pentagon, Jonathan Hoffmann, referred this information to the realm of fables and pointed out that his minister had visits to the EU for the coming week that he wanted to attend - including in Germany.

Donald Trump dismisses Mark Esper via tweet, FBI chief Christopher Wray could follow

A senior administration official tells CNN that Defense Secretary Mark Esper, whom President Trump just fired via tweet, is worried that the president will next fire FBI director Christopher Wray and CIA director Gina Haspell.

- Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 9, 2020

Donald Trump,

however, has not forgotten the "lack of loyalty" of his defense minister after his defeat by the Democrat Joe Biden * and, according to "Axios", was planning even before the presidential election that

- as well as

- should follow it up dismiss nationwide vote.

Although the elected president is still clinging to his chair and claiming to be the real winner of the 2020 US election *, he has now drawn the expected consequence - Mark Esper has lost his post as

.

Trump announced his decision appropriately on Twitter.

FBI chief

would be well advised to order moving boxes already.

CNN speaks of a “

” that

now initiating.

(Mirko Schmid)

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