President Donald Trump’s relationship with Defense Secretary Mark Esper has reportedly unraveled to the point where the White House is actively seeking out possible replacements if Trump decides to oust Esper.
NBC News reported on Monday that Trump and White House officials have been in talks with Veteran Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie about potentially replacing Esper.
The White House has also informally interviewed several other candidates, according to NBC News, but Wilkie has caught Trump’s eye in recent weeks as a member of the White House’s COVID-19 task force.
Trump has reportedly been itching to oust Esper for months amid their clashes over renaming Confederate-named military bases and the Pentagon chief’s move to slash funding for the Pentagon’s newspaper for its military staff, Stars and Stripes.
However, Trump’s staffers have warned the President against another firing so close to Election Day.
Has anyone else made the connection yet that right-wing radicals are borrowing a page right out of Osama Bin Laden’s manual by ramming vehicles into defenseless groups of people they want to see dead?
Or that ISIS would send armed groups into towns to kill locals who didn’t fall in line?
It’s almost like you can easily spot a Terrorist by the tactics they use.
This has nothing to do with it, of course.
These aren’t just republicans in these positions; they’re Trump republicans. BIG difference, as everyone has noticed.
warned the President against another firing so close to Election Day.
but he is only righting a wrong.
he was only 99% loyal and there is noway trump can handle such a deficiency in his quest for total authoritarian control.
the revolving door just keeps on spinning.
Or a despot.
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Swine.
Interviewing replacements for Esper?!!??
Ya mean tney’re actually vetting people???
Well that’s certainly a first. Normally they announce the appointment to the media without even bothering to ask the individual concerned.