Trump in a shouting match with a top Pentagon official

[G_j]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-demanded-10000-troops-be-deployed-to-quell-protests-reports-2020-6

Trump got into a shouting match with a top Pentagon official after demanding 10,000 troops be deployed to the streets to quell George Floyd protests, according to reports

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At a heated Oval Office meeting on Monday, President Donald Trump demanded that 10,000 soldiers be deployed to the streets of Washington DC to quell anti-racism protests, according to multiple reports.

However top Pentagon officials Mark Esper, the defense secretary, and Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Attorney General Bill Barr, all resisted the request, a top administration official told ABC News.

Milley was involved in a "shouting match" with the president over the request, a senior military official told the New Yorker, telling Trump, "I'm not doing that. That's for law enforcement." The president eventually backed down.

The White House disputed the account. Chief of staff Mark Meadows told the publication, "there was no shouting match, in terms of any directions or any operational decision that was made."

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[rurallib]

1. Was Mark Meadows born without a spine or was it dissolved by Trump venom?

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Meadows is in the mollusk family. He doesn't need a spine. n/t

[RestoreAmerica2020]

17. Great quip!

[paleotn]

18. Are you sure he was born?

I use to live in his old district. I have my doubts he's even human.

[Mr.Bill]

19. It must be interesting to have a job

where you get paid to do nothing but lie.

[MrsMatt]

20. I've heard that Trump has made

him cry actual tears.

[CincyDem]

2. Well...since Meadows cleared it all up...I'm good with it.

[Yonnie3]

3. "That was not shouting,

that was his normal voice used to instruct staff," Chief Staff Enabler Mark Meadows told the publication.

[Marcuse]

32. He used his BBF to shield his racism, but when Drumpf attacked said friend...

rather than similarly defending Elijah Cummings in session for the record, Meadows tardily and indirectly responded via a weak text to Frothy.

Mark Meadows breaks his silence on Trump's attacks on Cummings in text to CNN commentator

[link:https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/politics/mark-meadows-elijah-cummings-donald-trump/index.html|

[fierywoman]

5. So Milley "dominated" the Oval Office?

[BamaRefugee]

22. winner.

[SoonerPride]

6. I wish we had video of this

China if you’re listening please release this video

[roamer65]

7. Apparently the military is taking their oath seriously.

[smb]

8. My Nasty Cynical Suspicion

Some of the smarter Republicans have figured out that the best chance to save what's left of their party is for one of Tweetolini's tantrums to end with a popped blood vessel.

[PJMcK]

13. If only... (n/t)

[GeorgeGist]

9. So that's why Milley dawned fatigues ...

while inspecting the 'troops' before battle?

[no_hypocrisy]

10. One thing stopped Trump from getting those 10,000.

There were too many of them saying no to him. He couldn't fire all of them.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Who ever ordered the Choppers

will stand at Trial next year. These violations of use of force against civilians will not go away. And those in Command who carried those orders will also pay the price.

[malaise]

15. THIS

Can't wait

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Wow. Someone actually standing up to Trump.

Check out the temperature in Hell.

[PJMcK]

14. Does Trump scream at everyone?

In many profiles of him I've read that he is extremely abusive and insulting.

I'll never understand why anyone would want to have anything to do with him.

Trump is stupid and disgusting.

He's also an idiot.

[KS Toronado]

28. Yes, babies scream all the time, especially when their diapers are dirty

[louis-t]

16. He really is a piece of shit, isn't he?

He really thinks he knows better than everyone else about everything. What a loser.

[spanone]

21. He should have beat the shit out of donnie....the weasel wimp.

[Grammy23]

23. He is barely able to contain his rage during press conferences.

But he does keep it simmering in the background since he is keenly aware of the cameras. He doesn’t want to show his true colors so he rarely does more than grimace and pop off smart ass insults. So the asshat can control how and where he uses his rage attacks. I just wish some clever staffer would get him in full meltdown to show the truth. I suspect some have but they’re saving the best material for the trials.

[jaxexpat]

26. Only the "best" material at the trials.

Pre-purchased ad time for them? Best spot investment since the dot-com bubble.

[cstanleytech]

29. Actually they're probably saving it for use in a plea bargain.

[OMGWTF]

24. Shitler is pulling 9,500 troops from Germany; maybe he wants to redeploy them to DC? What a tyrant!

[MarcA]

25. Are they really against the use of troops or

are they saying drumph was going too far too soon? Would there be people and groups
they are in favor of using troops against? Remember MacArthur and the Bonus Marchers?
What if drumph's goons rebel after he is voted out?

[Jedi Guy]

30. "I'm not doing that. That's for law enforcement." In what way is that quote unclear?

He didn't say, "I'm not doing that right now, it's too soon." He flatly stated that he wasn't going to do it, period.

Who are "drumph's goons" exactly? The same military leadership that just told him no?

Why would they rebel after he's voted out? Given the number of retired senior military folks who are coming out against his handling of the protests, it doesn't sound like they're all that keen on Dolt 45 at the moment, if they ever were.

[MarcA]

33. Esper said not Now, but he did not rule out it's use.

His full statement is in the print media and recorded on video. drumph's goons are
his unhinged supporters and lone wolves.

[cstanleytech]

27. Translation is they didn't want to go to jail for breaking the law which is what Trump wanted to do.

[Gore1FL]

31. I love howMeadows qualified his denial

"there was no shouting match, in terms of...

When you limit the things that there were no shouting matches about, it's a good admission that there was a shouting match.

[JHB]

34. Translation: There was a shouting match, and Trump backed down...

...with his tail between his legs.

[Cha]

35. Fuck the WH "disputing" anything.

[nakocal]

36. Barr going against Trump is laughable

Barr may have been there, but I do not believe that he spoke out against Trump.

[zak247]

37. That's pretty scary

Trump is the lowest, craziest president in history.

We are in peril with this fool in the WH.

[jimlup]

38. Yeah well we know the truth

it doesn't matter what their cover-up propaganda is. We know that for what it is.

[Xolodno]

39. What no one mentions...

...the Pentagon essentially refused orders from the Commander in Chief.

Freepers and many other dumbshits believe with absolute religion the US forces will salute and follow orders and shoot against their own people, just to own the "libs".

it never occurred to them, that they respect the Constitution first. Even with the disagreement in politics...are you willing to shoot your liberal sister/brother?....or your fellow trooper, who also happens to be liberal?