comes another book. this time by this man, mark asper, he was trump second secretary of defense and as you probably last heard of him back in 2020 when trump fired him on twitter right after the election. in the past year and a half we ve learned more about the circumstances of his ouster, trump and esper were on the outs for much of 2020. after esper publicly at the time disagreed with the ex presidents proposal to use the military to quash protests across this country after the murder of george floyd. but here s the thing, esper s last straw it may have been courtesy of this man, johnny mcentee, he s a close trump ally, a former pro ball player, who actually ran the powerful white house personnel office. in fact mcentee was sometimes called the deputy president because the authority that he wielded within the trump
administration. about a month before esper was actually fired, mcentee s office reportedly circulated this memo about him as pressure field by jonathan call in his book, betrayal, the memo outlines more than a dozen reasons esper should be removed. and chief among them publicly opposing the president s direction to utilize american forces to put down the riots just outside the white house. the memo also cite some other concerns, esper s removal of the confederate flag from military instantly installations, the fact that he promoted lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the national security official who of course became a star witness in trump s first impeachment trial. now over years since he was fired, asper is outselling a memoir on his time in the administration. and as in the case with every other tell-all about the ex president, it is full of some