Mark Esper
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is not going to resign or resign, he did not submit the relevant statements. Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman wrote about this on Twitter.
“NBC's reporting is largely inaccurate and misleading. I want to make it clear that Defense Minister Esper has no plans to resign, and he was not asked to submit his resignation either, ”he stressed.
Earlier it was reported that Esper had prepared a letter of resignation. According to NBC, US chiefs often draft such documents during an undated election period. It depends on the elected head of state whether to leave the minister in office.
At the end of October, it became known that the US presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to dismiss the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Pentagon after the elections if he is re-elected. In addition, in June, Trump was on the verge of firing Esper because he refused to send troops to suppress protests in the country's cities.
