Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Alexis Ross (pictured) has resigned, becoming the latest official to exit the Pentagon this week as part of a growing post-election purgeThe Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense has resigned, three days after Donald Trump fired her boss Mark Esper on Twitter. Ross joined the Defense Department under now-fired Defense Secretary Esper in late-2019 after having served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform. Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Jen Stewart had already submitted her resignation Tuesday, one day after Esper was fired. The upheaval at the Pentagon began when Donald Trump fired Esper in a tweet Monday and replaced him with Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. On Tuesday, Stewart, Esper's Chief of Staff resigned, alongside Acting Undersecretary for Policy James Anderson and Undersecretary for Intelligence Joseph Kernan.

Source: Daily Mail November 13, 2020 02:28 UTC