Defense secretary and the termination earlier this week. V a tweet from President Trump. . Hy did that happen guest there has been a lot of friction between secretary esper and the president over the last few months. There was some concerns from the white house that esper was not loyal enough, not telling the president what he wanted to hear and was not helping him. Hear and was not helping him. One of the friction points was the issue of the lafayette one of the friction points was the issue of the Lafayette Square the Infamous Press appearance where the president walked out of the white house after protesters were cleared out and posed in front of the church across the street. Of conversation about the military taking on a more active role in responding to those racial protests and finding some way for the military not just a guard but active duty military to be involved and there was pushback on that. It was not appropriate. Just burrow into some of problems the president had with e
Tweet from President Trump. Why did that happen . Been a lot ofas friction between secretary esper and the president. There were some concerns from the white house that he was not loyal enough, was not telling the president what he wanted to hear and was not helping him. One of the friction points was the issue of the lafayette square, the Infamous Press appearance where the president walked out of the white house after protesters had been cleared out imposed at the church across the street. There was a lot of conversation about the military taken on a more active role in responding to those Racial Equity protests and finding some way for active duty military to be involved in secretary esper pushed back on that. He says it was not appropriate. Apparently that started to burrow into some problems the president had with his performance and his attitude. I colleague megan meyers and got a chance to sit down with secretary asbury before he left, in his final days when it looked like he wa
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