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Mark Esper was fired after 16 months on the job trying to keep his head down politically Washington: President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Monday that he had fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, further destabilizing a government already navigating Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the electoral defeat of Democrat …

US President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday and announced Christopher C Mills, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, as acting head of the defense department. Esper was Trump’s second defense secretary. The first, James Mattis, had resigned over political differences with the president over the troops …