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Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says Trump wanted to 'shoot' demonstrators protesting George Floyd's death: book
Business insider ^ | 05/02/2022 | John L Dorman

Posted on 05/02/2022 11:04:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former President Donald Trump wanted to "shoot" demonstrators protesting the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd, according to a forthcoming book written by former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

In June 2020, Trump became increasingly frustrated with the fury ignited by the death of Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police, Esper wrote in the book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times," which is slated for release on May 10.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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To: ChicagoConservative27

Esper’s still bumhurt that Trump fired his disloyal @**.


81 posted on 05/02/2022 12:08:02 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pretty sure he wanted to nuke them!

/s


82 posted on 05/02/2022 12:10:07 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Another book writer ran an alternate version of this story a few years ago. “Trump wants to shoot migrants at the southern border in he legs.” Trump said he is tough but not that tough. The press has gone crazy, fake news.


83 posted on 05/02/2022 12:10:21 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

They should be worried Obama isn’t loved the way Trump is, Trump pulls in 40-50 thousand people at EVERY damn rally people love him because he says whatever in the hell is on his mind!! Obama who is THEIR savior hums and stutters before he says every damn word!! The media CAN NOT stop him as hard as they have tried Trump is genuine they do not have ONE STINKING genuine person on their side there is NOTHING they can do to stop Trump the people are with him NO MATTER WHAT!!!


84 posted on 05/02/2022 12:11:01 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hel)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Remember this?

Trump's Pentagon chief quashed idea to send 250,000 troops to Mexico border

Seattle Times ^ | 19 October 2021 | DAVID E. SANGER, Eric Schmitt and Michael D. Shear The New York Times
Posted on 10/20/2021, 12:33:25 AM by blueplum

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's defense secretary thought the idea was outrageous.

In spring 2020, Mark Esper, the Defense secretary, was alarmed to learn of an idea under discussion at a top military command and at the Department of Homeland Security to send as many as 250,000 troops — more than half the active U.S. Army, and a sixth of all American forces — to the southern border...It is not clear whether it was officials in Homeland Security or the Pentagon who concluded that a quarter of a million troops would be required....

...Around the same time that officials considered the huge deployment to the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, Trump also pressed his top aides to send forces into Mexico itself to hunt drug cartels, much like U.S. commandos have tracked and killed terrorists in Afghanistan or Pakistan, the officials said.

Trump hesitated only after aides suggested that to most of the world, military raids inside Mexico could look like the United States was committing an act of war...

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85 posted on 05/02/2022 12:11:33 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What decent person didn’t want to see the demise of those commie protesters?


86 posted on 05/02/2022 12:18:15 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty. Excellent. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should have shot a few.
They were happy enough to shoot Ashli Babbitt just for being there and supporting Trump.


87 posted on 05/02/2022 12:23:30 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I don’t disagree, but does shooting protesters sound like a good idea in the US? They tried that at Kent State. It did not work well. Anyone over 60 years old remembers that.


88 posted on 05/02/2022 12:36:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: sam_whiskey

The 2.5 billion dollars in damages say different.


89 posted on 05/02/2022 12:37:33 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Williams

Hyperbole much?

My city isn’t in smoking ruins. A vast majority of the cities in this country are not in ruins.

You watch too much news. Get out. Look around.


90 posted on 05/02/2022 12:38:43 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In the real world people are judged by their actions and choice not by their cheap words.

Really,

We can express anger with words... because the thought crimes thugs of the democrat party are NOT in control of our country yes.

And speaking of the Ministry of Truth let it be known the people running it believe men can get pregnant. And that if a surgeon inserts feathers under a person's skin, that person becomes a bird. In short we're dealing with the insane group think of people isolated from the reality of real life.

91 posted on 05/02/2022 12:42:49 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The party that says men can get pregnant wants to control 'misinformation' on the internet.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dunno ‘bout “protestors” but if President Trump wanted to lay waste to the rioters burning and looting, I would back him up on it.


92 posted on 05/02/2022 12:56:25 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shoot demonstrators, as was done by the jerk in the Capitol building Jan. 6, and was called for by Senator Linda Graham?


93 posted on 05/02/2022 1:17:07 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

And Rittenhouse was found innocent. Need we say more?


94 posted on 05/02/2022 1:27:41 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And another book from an American traitor who publishes the accusations without proof to line his pockets.


95 posted on 05/02/2022 1:35:38 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If they were committing felonies, especially setting fires, it is within the law, that they can and should be shot. Shooting a female Air Force vet because she stuck her head through a broken window seemed all fine and dandy with the media though.


96 posted on 05/02/2022 1:53:42 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: americas.best.days...
"I remember Trump saying many times in interviews, long before presidency that the most important thing to him in his life was loyalty."

But he also said that at some point, most of the people you think you can trust, will stab you in the back. And he was right.

97 posted on 05/02/2022 1:56:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump FIRED this POS.


98 posted on 05/02/2022 2:07:08 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A SACRED OATH!, WHAT A JOKE!


99 posted on 05/02/2022 2:07:40 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

RIOTERS need to be shot. PROTESTORS do not loot and burn stores or attack police and bystanders; rioters do.


100 posted on 05/02/2022 2:29:26 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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