Trump’s latest showdown: Pentagon chief Mark Esper fired. In his place the director of the anti-terrorist center Miller

The last confrontation of Donald trump It is the removal of the Secretary of Defense and head of the Pentagon, Mark Esper. The announcement of the president, who is preparing to leave White House in favor of the newly elected Joe biden, was given on Twitter, replacing the now former member of the administration with Christopher C. Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

“I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected director of the National Counterterrorism Center (confirmed unanimously in the Senate) will be acting Secretary of Defense, effective immediately. Chris will do a great job. Mark Esper has finished. I want to thank you for your service ”, wrote the Magnate.

Esper’s firing comes about a year and a half after taking office, when he went to replace another victim of the Trumpian purges within his own administration. Jim Mattis. But he too, like his predecessor, never caught up with the outgoing president, as positions close to those of generals who never digested the unpredictability and impulsive decisions of the head of the White House on the theme of international missions. But above all to Magnate He did not like the prudent position of the head of the Pentagon, supported by the high military ranks, not to intervene with the troops to repress the anti-Trump demonstrations that gradually spread throughout the country, explaining the election with the need not to interfere with the army in matters of Internal Security. A relationship, that of Esper and Trump, that had deteriorated to the point that the US media now gave his resignation for sure in case of re-election of the Republican candidate.

Among other initiatives that had angered the president, there was also Esper’s collaboration with Congress to remove the names of general ally from US military bases. And also in terms of COVID-19 The two have always held opposite positions, and the Secretary of Defense always appears in public with the mask and underline the importance of individual protections to combat the spread of the pandemic in the most affected country in the world.