"SECDEF Esper, you're Fired."

[Badger52]

As reported here, Mark Esper has been terminated.
Chris Miller, currently Director NCTC is to be Acting SECDEF.

President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, in a long-anticipated move.

Trump announced the firing via Twitter. He also announced he was putting Christopher C. Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as acting secretary of defense “effective immediately.”

…Chris will do a GREAT job! Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020

The relationship between Trump and Esper soured quickly after Esper preempted the president by declaring he did not support using active-duty forces to restore peace during a summer of violent riots.

Trump had not called for using troops, but had warned he might if the violence continued. However, Esper’s preemptive declaration made it more difficult for the president to use the threat of deployment of troops as a deterrent to rioters.

Esper’s statement had come after he received criticism from the left for walking with the president to St. John’s Church in Lafayette Park across from the White House.

The left claimed that Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley had drawn the military into politics by appearing with the president, despite Esper being a political appointee who serves at the behest of the president to carry out the president’s policies.

Esper — claiming to want to keep the military out of politics — had seldom, if ever, outwardly voiced support for the president during his tenure.

Esper, a former defense lobbyist, became the Army secretary when President Donald Trump first took office. He was a former classmate of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at West Point.

Wager: One of the first questions to Miller will be to ascertain how he feels about using the military and invoking the Insurrection Act.

Then it will be JADE HELM x TAILWIND. I can't wait.