If Esper has NO desire to protect the President of the United States and his Administration he can resign NOW
Esper has to know that on Monday the “protestors”attacked the U.S.Park Service police with frozen water bottles, bricks and caustic substances and tried to grab a police weapon. That resulted in smoke canisters and pepper balls.
What is he thinking?
Esper needs to take his officially issued sidearm out and eat it. He is participating in an insurrection against the President.
At BEST capitulation/deescalation. There’s also a sense of using them as pawns - if they ARE attacked the story blows back on BLM and increase public support for real military use.
This might be good cop/bad cop - a very dangerous version of such.
Soft hats tho... p——y hats?
He will be a talking head on CNN by the end of the year. And, a book deal.
It probably makes sense to have the national guard as backup to the cops.
That way if it comes to shooting, the local cops will have to be the ones doing it.
Espy’s petard is starting to show..
That’s what obama did with troops!
My lord... just curl up and surrender!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fire him.. he is useless... the word DEFENSE in his title means nothing!
The VA disability claims will through the roof with this.
You either want soldiers or you don’t want soldiers. If you don’t want them, don’t call them. Let them stay in their home towns to shoot looters at their local businesses (on their own time, as a public service) if they aren’t going to do their job in DC.
Why even send them then?
Trump letting Esper giving Esper enough rope to hang himself.
Appalling.
can his ass!
IF this is TRUE, ESPER NEEDS TO BE FIRED ON MONDAY!! WHAT A GIRLY GUY!
Maybe he’ll have KNEEL BEFORE BLM THUGS!
Watch Trump drop him like he did Mattis.
Largely peaceful...except for the violence.
Hopefully, this will work out well, there will not be violence and looting, and people can lie about something else, and Trump can rightly point out how he did everything he could to diffuse the situation, including having the guard lay down arms and go with soft hats.
The idea that Esper can actually do ANYTHING without the approval of the President is a leftie pipe-dream.