https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ump/index.html
Why the firing of Mark Esper is just the start of a very wild 72 days
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he opposed using the military to crack down on sometimes-violent protests that broke out in major American cities following the death of George Floyd in May
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https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-ep...iew_id=1184085
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one concern people have had is whether Trump was doing this to somehow
get ready to invoke martial law and create some kind of pretext to annul the election, or something that
seems crazy, but we’ve seen these sorts of concepts discussed before in regards to Mr. Trump’s
unwillingness to abide by normal procedure and to accept the outcome of the elections. So, your mind
naturally goes toward worst-case thinking like that,
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Neither of these authors seem to believe that firing Esper is a move to stay in power but the theory is acknowledged in both.