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President Trump has announced that he’s fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Though Esper’s tenure was marred by tension with the White House, the two men had a particularly chilly relationship after Esper denounced President Trump’s photograph in front of a Washington church damaged by protesters this summer.
…Chris will do a GREAT job! Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
USA Today has more on the growing acrimony that led to Esper’s dismissal:
Esper differed with Trump over the display of Confederate emblems and names at military installations. Trump slapped him down after Esper had expressed openness to renaming 10 military bases named after Confederate generals.
And Esper circumvented Trump on display of the Confederate battle flag at U.S. military installations. Trump has called shows of the flag a matter of free speech and not racism. Esper established a rule that relegated displays of flags to those approved by the Pentagon. The Confederate flag did not make the list.
After protesters marched in cities across the country, including Washington, DC, following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Trump urged a crackdown. Esper referred to American streets as battle space that governors needed to dominate, a phrase he later said he regretted. But he resisted invoking the Insurrection Act that would have allowed active-duty troops, some poised in June on the outskirts of Washington, to quell disturbances.
Last year, the defense chief and President Trump sparred sharply and publicly on the strike against Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
Esper who began his official role as defense secretary in July 2019, was previously Army secretary and acting Defense secretary. Esper was Trump’s second choice to step into the seven-month period of uncertainty left when former Defense secretary Jim Mattis resigned in late 2018 amid bitter disagreements over foreign policy.
Esper also disagreed with Trump’s decision to label the Democrat’s star impeachment inquiry witness, Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, “insubordinate” before dismissing him from the National Security Council. Esper subsequently approved Vindman’s promotion to full colonel and forwarded it to the White House; however, Vindman retired days later.
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Barr and Wray need to go next.
Barr might yet play a role
That is what I think. He seems like a good honest individual. Lets see if he can withstand the pressure from the left to not go legal.
Absolutely go legal President Trump. Only a leftist would say such a thing. If the election was done honestly then he wouldn’t have had to go legal.
Wray YES should have been out a year ago Barr NO He is hanging in there andwill be key in fighting the election fraud.. The Dems and MSM mockingbird press are demanding the Trump campaign show them proof of election tampering. They are wishing a death sentence on themselves. Trump has all the proof he needs, ans will spring it when it is most advantageous for him.
I agree. Democrats don’t know what honesty is.
good riddance
Why do these “news” outlets always refer to to “the killing of George Floyd” ? Can’t they do enough research to report the facts? George Floyd died from a drug overdose while in police custody. Stop adding fuel to the propaganda machine and report facts not opinions!
— Dace — That is why we are in the mess we are in. The MSM has added fuel-to-the-fire for 4 years and then they turn around and blame President Trump for it. What this headline should say is “President Trump just fired another deep state Cabinet member!”
The news doses not make the nws. They all receive talking points that thy must repeat over and over all day. The Fox news desk dit not call the election they are merely the operatives of the deep Atate. John Brennen, formes and [still is] CIA came up with the idea. Not new Russia used in PRAVDA for 60 years. It only works in a society where all media is under state control. That is why the DNC and Deep state own Google, Facebook Twitter and other Socialist media.
That is exactly what needed to be done! ANY policy changes, especially those in the public spotlight, MUST be coordinated with The Commander-In-Chief! The PRESIDENT makes decisions on military matters and hold the responsibility! If you disagree, voice your reasons with him but realize, as long as it is within the Presidents Constitutional authority, after the decision is made, understand and accept the President’s decision!
Or leave his administration if you don’t like it.
overdue
In other words, President Trump just got rid of another Deep State anti-Trump Cabinet member.
For God’s sake, do not stop there! Christopher Wray and every other appointee at the FBI needs to go. PRESIDENT TRUMP has won the election but now we have to do all of the legal challenges and lawsuits to prove it. CNN is complicit in vote switching and I just saw it happen on a website demonstrating Voter Fraud. They need to go to prison. They are tied in directly into the official voting system that the precincts report to. The Democrat Party cheated on the last elections in Dallas and Houston as well as California when all of the Democrats beat every Republican in Congress that won election night. This is not conspiracy or whatever the Lyin’ Democrats call it. It is outright voter fraud of the greatest magnitude. The Democrat Party has been cheating in every race they supposedly won and the proof is all being laid out as we speak. This time they went to far and got caught! They need to be convicted of treason as they are trying to weaken this country to let China take control.
Exactly!! Well said!
Death is coming!
When is Pres. Trump going to fire Gina Haspel? She won’t release document that deal with covert action.
Another swamp rat gone! Next up: Christopher Wray!!!
Just to go off the topic a little, hillary CLAIMS since her LOSS that she had “won”, at least the Popular vote, well I have to ask: “WHY DIDN’T she DEMAND any RECOUNT of ANY State/States..??? Well, I guess, they told her back then that a LOT of DIRT would be found, i.e. Illegal votes, DEAD people votes, UN-verified votes…and yeah, a GOOD, HARD LOOK would have found MISS-counts by the voter Machines/Software..????!!!!! She had to KEEP her moth SHUT, but they let her WHINE for 4 YEARS – I won, I won, I won……blah, blah blah….I am Glad that we have a President Trump who WON’T bow DOWN because he/his voters have NOTHING to HIDE….!!!!
I know in politics you should NOT show/express “feelings”, but I have to say, I was leary of Esper from the start, my gut feeling told me, WRONG guy….
No surprise. Gave Trump grief when he wanted to send Fed troops in to quell the riots. Guess he never heard of Geo Washington who as president led troops to quell the whisky rebellion in PA.
A TEAM works together for a common goal and to step out of that role, disqualifies anyone that does that. Esper was critical of our President and doesn’t deserve the position. I would have fired him the first time his pubic comments reflected disunity.
Esper will be seen as a never-Trumper now and he can still have a fantastic career by wearing this firing as a badge of honor! What is AG Barr doing about the crimes of the Deep Staters? We don’t hear another peep from the Dept of Justice! Some Justice for President Trump?!
Good 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
If the Coward all talk and no action in 2 F’n years Billy Bob Barr And his Poodle Durham should be held accountable for the mess we are in for complete failure to do their F’n jobs and firing is not enough! How many assholes need to b fired before 1 of them does their jobs and the F’n criminals continue to run BS Russian Hoax’s etc if the spineless Chicken chump Barr did anything like put people in jail aka his F’n this would have stopped…. PERIOD
Esper is an embarrassment to West Point…should be drummed out of his class…erased from the records… Should be the guy that never was!
Good riddance. MAGA!
Esper is just another member of the swamp who believed he was more powerful than Trump. Too bad that Trump can’t call on real patriots. I would be glad to serve. And although I don’t have the experience that the world demands, I do have WISDOM FROM GOD and that is better than all of the jerks he has had to fire so far.
President Trump is a pro-peace president. I see the people the President fired are actually pro-war.
LtCol. V. was eligible for a General Courts Martial, re-rank to Capt. and at best a good of the service discharge. Unauthorized disclosure of national intelligence information, while being insubordinate, and conduct unbefitting is taken very seriously.