BREAKING: Pres. Trump fires Defense Secretary Mark Esper in a tweet. https://abcn.ws/32uEqe1
MORE: Pres. Trump was particularly displeased that Esper had opposed using active duty military under the Insurrection Act to deal with the George Floyd protests, as the president had threatened to order. https://abcn.ws/2IngkKV
MORE: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows called Esper to alert him that Pres. Trump’s tweet firing him was coming, defense official says. http://abcn.ws/2IngkKV
NEW: Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "The abrupt firing of Secretary Esper is disturbing evidence that President Trump is intent on using his final days in office to sow chaos in our American Democracy and around the world." http://abcn.ws/2IngkKV