Defense Secretary Faces White House Pressure on Aides and a Military Promotion
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In December, Randall Schriver, the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific affairs, resigned. In January, Eric Chewning, Mr. Esper’s chief of staff, followed suit. In February, the president fired Mr. Rood, who was part of the Pentagon team that told Congress that Ukraine had made the necessary changes to justify sending the country $250 million in promised security assistance. The certification undermined a key argument that Mr. Trump’s defense team made during his impeachment battle: that Mr. Trump withheld the aid because he was concerned about corruption in Ukraine.
In April, the acting Navy secretary, Thomas B. Modly, resigned after his efforts to appease Mr. Trump resulted in a bungled Navy response to a coronavirus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, engulfing the Navy in a command crisis and a public relations disaster.
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