{"id":644814,"date":"2019-06-23T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/23100715-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Mark Esper\" title=\"Mark Esper\"\/><\/div><p>US President Donald Trump has nominated Mark Esper"},"modified":"2019-06-23T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:07:23","slug":"donald-trump-nominates-mark-esper-as-pentagon-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/23\/donald-trump-nominates-mark-esper-as-pentagon-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump nominates Mark Esper as Pentagon chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/23100715-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Mark Esper\" title=\"Mark Esper\"\/><\/div>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has nominated Mark Esper to be the Secretary of Defense, the White House has said.<\/p>\n<p>Esper replaces Patrick Shanahan, who led the military in an acting capacity but this week withdrew his name from consideration for a permanent role after allegations of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>It has been six months without a permanent defence secretary \u2013 three times longer than ever before \u2013 even as the country deals with the growing tensions with Iran.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has nominated Mark Esper to be the Secretary of Defense, the White House has said. Esper replaces Patrick Shanahan, who led the military in an acting capacity but this week withdrew his name from consideration for a permanent role after allegations of domestic violence. It has been six months without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[667,387,1676,1675,1674,1677,388],"class_list":["post-644814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-chief","tag-donald","tag-esper","tag-mark","tag-nominates","tag-pentagon","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Donald Trump nominates Mark Esper as Pentagon chief - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/23\/donald-trump-nominates-mark-esper-as-pentagon-chief\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Donald Trump nominates Mark Esper as Pentagon chief - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"US President Donald Trump has nominated Mark Esper to be the Secretary of Defense, the White House has said. 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