Trump's off the job and a senior Pentagon official

I would like to thank Mr. John Road for serving our country, and wish him all the best for the future,” President Trump said on Twitter.

John Rood wrote in a letter to President Trump that “I was informed by Defence Secretary Mark Esper that you have requested my resignation”.

Rood, the highest policy official at the Department of Defence, certified last year that Ukraine's anticorruption campaign had progressed enough to unblock it from US military assistance. He is another administration official dismissed by Mr. Trump, following the trial in the Senate that acquitted the president of charges brought by the House of Representatives Democrats.

Certificate was perceived as an attempt to undermine President Trump's defence team argument during the judicial process in the Senate that the president refused to unblock aid from the concern of corruption in Ukraine.

Pentagon Chief spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said John Road's dismissal gives President Trump “the possibility and ability to have the team he wants to have”.

On November 7th, President Trump dismissed Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from his position at the National Security Council after Vindman testified before the House of Representatives investigators in opposition to White House wishes.

Vindman's twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, who was a lawyer at the National Security Council, was also dismissed and was not involved in the president's dismissal hearings along with US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sundland. / VoA