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“Mark Esper is fired,” Trump announced on Twitter.
“I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (confirmed unanimously by the Senate), will be acting Secretary of Defense effective immediately,” Trump said, according to international media.
This firing comes less than a week after the presidential election, lost by Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
Trump and Esper had public disagreements on various issues, such as renaming the military bases to southern generals.
Esper’s firing appears to be an image game of Donald Trump, to show that he has power, in the context in which Joe Biden, the new president-elect, launched his program, comments “The Guardian”, according to news.ro.
NBC News announced last week that Esper is working with members of Congress on legislation to rename the bases.
Or, a few days before the election, sources announced that Trump was considering firing officials who had previously criticized him. And the director of the FBI, Christipher Wray, is in this situation.
Mark Esper reportedly left the post of Secretary of Defense with the appointment of Joe Biden, scheduled for January 20, 2021.
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