Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that
he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher
Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center,
will become acting secretary "effective immediately."

The President jettisoned Esper two days after his Democratic opponent
Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the presidential election, a
conclusion that Trump has refused to accept.

Esper's increasingly tense relationship with Trump led him to prepare a
letter of resignation weeks ago, an attempt to fashion a graceful exit
in the widely expected event that the President decided to fire him,
several defense sources, including one senior defense official, told CNN.


* For Just-a-Jerk: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE is the title of a book you
never read. I'll bet you believe the novel Moby-Dick, another novel you
never read, is about a dick.

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*Expand the Supreme Court!*