In a piece from the Washington Post this morning, columnist Max Boot outlined a memo from Johnny McEntee — the head of Trump’s Presidential Personnel Office — that was uncovered by ABC reporter Jon Karl.

In it, McEntee laid out more than a dozen reasons for Trump to fire Mark Esper, who was then Trump’s Defense Secretary. Many had believed that Esper was simply a “yes man” for the former president since he never complained about military funds being used to build Trump’s vanity wall along the southern border.

But McEntee had different ideas about the former Pentagon chief. He was angry that Esper had been the one who promoted Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the hero that testified against Trump in his first impeachment trial. He was furious that Esper had gone along with efforts to remove the Confederate flag from military installations.

But what really stuck out from the memo was the following line:

Publicly opposed the President’s direction to utilize American force to put down riots just outside the White House.

McEntee thought that Esper should have supported Trump’s use of the US military to suppress Black Lives Matter protests, which is literally in opposition to the US Constitution.

After Trump’s fiasco in Lafayette Square during a photo-op in front of a church, watching the National Guard disperse protesters with “less lethal” force and even battling journalists, General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff came out and apologized for the action.

That led directly to McEntee’s next complaint: That Esper had “failed to exercise oversight of the Joint Staff.”

What did Trump do after getting this memo? He fired Esper, of course.

Imagine a country where the guy in charge of hiring and firing the president’s staff and aides thought they should all be willing to break the law and subvert the Constitution to even have a job at the White House.

That’s terrifying.

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