Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership
In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general ...
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Why Trump wants to own the Pentagon
In a dramatic Friday night purge, President Donald Trump took decisive action to avoid a repeat of his first term when he ...
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Trump’s Decision to Fire the JAG Generals Gives the Game Away
Grant, Abraham Lincoln fired a number of Union commanders ... Trump’s next secretary of defense, Mark Esper, infuriated Trump in 2020 by publicly opposing the invocation of the Insurrection ...
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Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership
Minutes later, Hegseth released a statement announcing he’d fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti ... the time that then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Trump that his actions could damage the ...
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George Floyd Killing Separated Trump From His Generals
a move that General Milley and then Defense Secretary Mark Esper had vehemently opposed. Mr. Trump would never trust either man again. The president would later fire Mr. Esper (by tweet).