Esper resigning

[Tripper11]

MSNBC just broke...Esper has prepared a letter of resignation, essentially saying he knows he's out after the election anyway
no link yet

[samnsara]

1. its starting......

[Mike 03]

2. I heard this too.

Wow. I guess he's getting out ahead of it.

That leaves:

Gina Haspel
Chris Wray

Trump threatened to fire all three of these people after the election.

[exboyfil]

3. Crappy Conservative reason to leave

It is all about me (I am going to be out of a job anyway). No regard to helping in the transition to the new government for one of the three most important Cabinet positions.

Note the Cabinet Secretaries and the departments under Obama probably began preparing their briefing/transition books right after the last election knowing the importance of it when the WH changed parties. Of course we know all of that went into the dumpster including the pandemic response plans.

[gab13by13]

4. We can do better than Esper.

[maryellen99]

5. I also wonder if he knows that trump wants to start WW3 and is against it nt

[exboyfil]

6. Then he shouldn't leave

He should be working with Pence to do something about it. You go to the XO when the CO goes off the rails.

This brings up a question about the 25th attempting to remove a President who can still act. What stops him from firing all the Cabinet members not his loyalists before the VP gets concurrence? Seems the writers of the Amendment haven't thought that out.