Donald Trump cleans up after his defeat.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is the first of his evacuation to cost the office.
More could follow.
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
USA - four months.
That was the half-life of former
US
Secretary of Defense
Mark Esper
.
Donald Trump
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
James N. Mattis
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Trump had previously ordered a large part of the US armed forces stationed in Syria to be withdrawn and the rulers of Turkey and Russia,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
and
Waldimir Putin
, to leave the field.
+
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
Esper stepped in
without ever being
noticed
as a
defense
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 ejection seat from which five predecessors in the past three presidencies had been thrown out of their seats 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
screwed
up with Republican *
Donald Trump
weeks ago
.
Trump urged his
defense minister
to deploy troops domestically when the civil rights movement "
Black Lives Matter
" 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
United States
.
Trump sent the National Guard instead.
The last US Secretary of Defense
Minister (term of office) | president |
Mark Esper (2019-2020) | Donald Trump |
James N. Mattis (2017-2018) | Donald Trump |
Ashton Carter (2015-2017) | Barack Obama |
Chuck Hagel (2013 - 2015) | Barack Obama |
Leon Panetta (2011-2013) | Barack Obama |
Robert Gates (2006-2011) | George W. Bush, Barack Obama |
Donald Rumsfeld (2001-2006) | George W. Bush |
William Cohen (1997-2001) | Bill Clinton |
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
Donald Trump to
such an extent that he considered replacing
Mark Esper
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
US
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
Minister of Defense decided
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
defense minister
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 against the Democrat Joe Biden * and, according to "Axios", was planning ahead of the presidential election,
Mark Esper
- as well as
FBI chief Christopher Way
- after the nationwide Dismiss 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
Secretary of Defense
.
Trump announced his decision appropriately on Twitter.
FBI chief
Christopher Wray
would be well advised to order moving boxes already.
CNN speaks of a “
purge
” that
Donald Trump is
now initiating.
(Mirko Schmid)
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