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KICK FOR TRUMP: Mark Esper was fired as the United States Secretary of Defense in November. Along with nine other former defense ministers, he is now asking the Pentagon to commit to a peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
The ten surviving former US defense ministers are calling on the Pentagon to commit to a peaceful transfer of power to incoming President Joe Biden.
Attempts to involve the US military in the resolution of electoral disputes could lead us into dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional territory, ten former Pentagon chiefs wrote in a column in The Washington Post on Sunday.
The article is signed by all surviving former defense ministers of the United States: Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry, and Donald Rumsfeld.
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The chronicle comes after several accusations by Joe Biden’s transition team that the Pentagon has prevented them from properly preparing for work and that this could be a danger to the national security of the United States.
US President Donald Trump has refused to admit defeat in the presidential election and still claims that he is the real winner of the election, despite opposing candidate Joe Biden garnering the most voters and votes.
Pentagon and Washington. Photograph: Charles Dharapak / AP / NTB
Former defense ministers point out that the electoral process and a peaceful transfer of power are the hallmarks of American democracy. All transfers of power since the civil war have been peaceful, they note.
– This year should not be an exception, they write.
The former ministers, who come from the two main parties in the United States, point out that legal attempts to challenge the electoral result have been rejected by the courts and that state authorities have confirmed the results.
– The time to question the electoral results is over, they conclude in the article.
Two of the ministers who have signed the article, James Mattis and Mark Esper, were appointed by President Trump.
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In the Washington Post column, his predecessor, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and the rest of the Pentagon call for their full cooperation and ease of the transition of the Joe Biden administration.
– They should also refrain from any political action that undermines the elections or hinders the success of the new administration, they write.
