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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Predict That SECDEF Esper Will Be...
out by the end of the week if not the end of the day today. During his CYA pressor it looked like he was, unexpectedly, called to the WH. Trump doesn't like what he's hearing.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)there's always room for some other official who has displeased His Lardship.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)Looks like Esper tried to lie his way out of a pickle, but in doing so, he got Trumpy-boy's attention. Trumpy-boy is on an authoritarian roll: kiss his ass or you're gone. If Esper does ANYTHING to diminish Trump-boy's otherwise stellar and god-like image, he's gone. It might happen on Friday. Esper deserves the firing because he accepted the job in the first place, with all of the caveats already on the table. He should have known it would come to this.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2naSalit
(86,567 posts)Just another job for jarvanka.
pwb
(11,261 posts)Trump didn't like following the Constitution.
malaise
(268,949 posts)They will also leave or be kicked out
jayfish
(10,039 posts)fired v. resignation with Esper. He'll probably say "f this shite, I've got family to spend time with" after being dressed down by Stump.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)and General Joseph Dunford too for that matter.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)and to be civil to the press and try to explain himself with humility
STRANGE
I wonder if the great words of James. N. Miller had anything to do with this?:
Secretary Esper, you violated your oath in aiding Trumps photo op. Thats why Im resigning.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13531693
nolabear
(41,959 posts)We have to be very careful about the misinformation campaigns. Because that might soon be all hes got left.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Lobbyist that are Tainted are of zero use to any Corporation and Esper is about as slimmed up as they come.
My guess is,he lives way beyond his means to start with.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)At some point Secretary of Defense Counsel advised him that he was breaking the law and could be prosecuted after Jan 3rd.
He probably told mind that if any protesters died and they acted without the insurrection act being formally applied he could be charged as an accomplice.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)from Legal Beagles that Esper could be facing legal issues next year.
dameatball
(7,397 posts)been an interview with Brian Williams....was channel flipping about 4am. McCaffrey was criticizing the photo op with Trump marching across the grounds with a wedge of cabinet and military people. He seemed to think Esper may not have realized how it would look, although I am not sure how anyone at his level could be that unaware.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)should be concerned too. I don't believe they could be used like this without their knowledge.
I wonder if either Mattis or Joseph Dunford expressed their dismay to the Pentagon. They surely still have contacts there.