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Mark Esper, Donald Trump’s Former Secretary Of Defense, To Join CNN As Global Affairs Analyst


Esper was fired by Trump shortly after the 2020 election.

Esper served from July 2019 to November, 2020, a period that included his opposition to sending U.S. troops to control protests in major cities following the killing of George Floyd. CNN also announced that Leah Wright Rigueur would join the network as an on-air contributor. Rigueur is associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and hosted the podcast Reclaimed: The Story of Mary Till-Mobley.

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