Trump was talked out of firing Pentagon boss Esper over disagreement on protest response, WSJ says
President Trump nearly fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper following a disagreement over the methods to quell nationwide protests, but was talked out of it, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A week ago, Esper publicly broke with Trump during a Pentagon press briefing by saying he did not support Trump's call to invoke the Insurrection Act. U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Mark Esper, U.S. Secretary of Defense, speaks during his swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 23, 2019.
— a law that would allow the president to use active-duty forces to respond to civil unrest stemming from protests against police brutality. "I say this not only as secretary of Defense, but also as a former soldier and a former member of the National Guard, the option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire situations. We are not in one of those situations now,"
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