Unprecedented purge of Donald Trump at the Pentagon and Security services

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Outgoing US President Donald Trump has launched

that has sparked alarm and concern in the United States as he replaces technical positions with people of proven loyalty to him.

This is added to the control that the president already exercises over the Department of Justice, the 17 intelligence agencies of the United States, the State Department, and his own party, where 49 of the 53 Republican senators of that formation have not recognized the victory. election of Joe Biden.

In fact, Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally has not even acknowledged her own loss to her Democratic rival Mark Kelly.

On Monday, Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and replaced him with Christopher Miller, who also serves as Director of Counterterrorism.

Since then, he has fired, among others, the Department's Policy Director, James Anderson, the Undersecretary for Intelligence, Joseph Kernan, and Esper's chief of staff, Jennifer Stewart.

Anderson has been replaced by

, a former Fox News television collaborator who in June addressed the CIA director with Barack Obama, John O'Brennan: "Pick your own poison: platoon of execution, public hanging, life imprisonment and being the slut in jail, or sucking the barrel of your gun. "

Tata has accused former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama of "high treason," and declared that the latter supports the Islamic fundamentalist groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Stewart's replacement is Jash Patel, a former adviser to Congressman Devin Nunes, one of the outgoing president's leading supporters.

Patel is one of the biggest proponents of the idea that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 elections in favor of Hillary Clinton, a baseless theory that has been disproved by US spy agencies.

Of course, for Patel and Tata, that is irrelevant, since the 17 intelligence services of the country are taken by "a cabal" that has been conspiring since 2016 against Donald Trump.

The importance of the United States Department of Defense cannot be understated.

It is by far the largest administrative unit of the State of that country, and

, whose budget, of 700,000 million dollars (595,000 million euros, that is, more than double the General Budget of the Spanish State ), is 37% of all military spending on the planet, according to the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI, for its acronym in English).

Next up: the CIA and the FBI

According to the US press, the president could adopt

in the coming days

with the CIA, which is responsible for much of the espionage abroad, and the FBI, which is, in practice, the only national police in the States United and the leading force fighting non-military attacks on national security.

The motivation for Trump's 'takeover' of the Pentagon is a mystery.

The media insist that the president has not spoken with senior military officials since the elections to explain the renewal of the chain of command.

A chain of command that, as in the case of the FBI and the CIA, had already been changed by Trump with the aim of putting like-minded personalities in front.

Apparently, they weren't close enough.

The basis of all these measures is an Executive Order - a kind of Decree-Law - issued six days before the elections, which allows the president between now and January 20 - exactly the day on which he will transfer power to his successor, Joe Biden- cease some

"who do not demonstrate the necessary temperament, insight, impartiality and soundness of judgment", qualities that only Trump has the power to determine.

In addition, the president's supporters are preparing

this weekend in support of Trump that they hope to attract a million people.

Neo-Nazi groups such as the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, and the Oath Keepers, will be in attendance.

Meanwhile, Trump is ignoring the worsening health situation in the country.

The US has more than 60,000 people hospitalized with Covid-19, and for a week the number of daily positives exceeds 100,000.

With a cumulative total of 10.3 million people.

The United States is tied with Great Britain for third place in the world in terms of

in relation to its population, only behind Belgium and Spain.

The situation is so serious that in the city of El Paso, Texas, they have been using refrigerator trucks as morgue for days.

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