The American website Axios revealed the contents of a report according to which Donald Trump, if re-elected in November, he will replace the secretary of defense and the directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The report published yesterday specifies that the US president himself, together with his closest collaborators, would have already prepared the list with the names of senior defense and intelligence officials to be "fired", or considered no longer reliable by the Trump administration.
According to Axios they would be at the top of the list, the secretary of defense Mark Esper, the director of the FBI Christopher wray and the director of the CIA Gina Haspel.
The site cites two sources who allegedly discussed the fate of these and other officials with President Trump himself. Sources told Axios that CIA Director Haspel is "despised and distrusted by almost everyone"Within the inner circle of the president, whose members view his intelligence reports with" very suspicious ". Another source told the Axios site that Reel however elections go, he intends to resign in November.
About the FBI director Wray, Trump's resentment is due to the fact that last month, as also reported to Congress, the Bureau had not detected significant fraud related to the elections either with the activity online or with the voting in the mail.
Moreover, the president would have lost faith in the secretary of defense as well Esper after he opposed the White House plan to deploy active-duty military personnel in major American cities, in response to popular protests sparked by some excessive police practices against black citizens.