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Trump fires Esper as Pentagon chief after election defeat

by Lolita C. BaldorRobert Burns
| November 9, 2020 10:31 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, an unprecedented move by a president struggling to accept election defeat and angry at a Pentagon leader he believes wasn't loyal enough.

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