lolol.
Well, it was worth asking.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a memoir out May 10 that former President Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: “Can’t you just shoot them?Just shoot them in the legs or something?”
Why it matters: The book, “A Sacred Oath,” contains vivid, first-person revelations by a top Cabinet member, bolstering outsiders’ accounts of extreme dysfunction in Trump’s White House.
- Esper, who had earlier been Secretary of the Army, was fired by Trump after the 2020 election.
That moment in the first week of June, 2020, “was surreal, sitting in front of the Resolute desk, inside the Oval Office, with this idea weighing heavily in the air, and the president red faced and complaining loudly about the protests under way in Washington, D.C.,” Esper writes.
- “The good news — this wasn’t a difficult decision,” Esper continues. “The bad news — I had to figure out a way to walk Trump back without creating the mess I was trying to avoid.”
Behind the curtain: The book was vetted at the highest levels of the Pentagon. I’m told that as part of the clearance process, the book was reviewed in whole or in part by nearly three dozen 4-star generals, senior civilians, and some Cabinet members.
- Some of them had witnessed what Esper witnessed.
- During the book’s security review, Esper sued the Pentagon over a classification dispute.
Context: Esper enraged Trump by publicly stating in June 2020 that he opposed invoking the Insurrection Act — an 1807 law that permits the president to use active-duty troops on U.S. soil — in order to quell protests against racial injustice.
The answer is YES!
The swamp is deep. Very deep.
Seems reasonable to me.
In the head would have been a better choice.
I’m for shooting them in the groin….
So according to Esper, President Trump wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act “…in order to quell protests against racial injustice.“
They weren’t “protests”,’they were riots, and they weren’t against “racial injustice”, but about a thug who died from Fentenal ingestion. I’m sure the rest of the book is just as factual.
I’d wager this is a total fucking lie. That’s the cost for Trump’s cabinet members to stay in the Swamp’s good standing. Tell a big fat lie about Trump.
… and JDHasty responds: Yea right, and I am Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile
Even better, shoot before a firing squad all Jan 6th currently locked up, then hang their leader for treason.
“Between the legs” would be more of an attention-getter, just sayin’…
No, Mr. President, you can only randomly shoot them over another officer’s shoulder or beat them to death over at the Capitol…
Hearsay. If he was the only person who heard it, it didn’t happen.
“I thought I said fire a warning shot.”
“That was a warning shot.”
“No, that was a head shot.”
“Yes, and now his friends have been warned.”
No ax to grind there.
By the way, your pants are on fire.
You can tell this is fake. If Trump would have asked about shooting them, it would have been a question about a head shot.
I would suggest aiming 32″ higher
Water cannon, and watch ’em bounce down the pavement.
In time of war, looters can be shot DEAD. If you must shoot, shoot to kill.
Center mass
Don’t worry PRESIDENT Trump.
The Gypsy Jokers can be farmed out to take care of the next Aunt Queefa riot.
@The Mule: “I’d wager this is a total fucking lie.”
Mule, I’ll see you, and raise you one “Biden said it”…
https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/biden-suggests-officers-shoot-in-the-leg-rather-than-to-kill/
Confusing Pelosi and Trump again are we?
Fact is Mark Esper has long-since thrown in with the dark-web democrats’ bribery to make false claims. Like Joe Biden, Esper is a greed-infested chronic compulsive liar.