Trump reportedly wanted to fire his defense secretary for refusing to send troops after protesters
Donald Trump was so infuriated by Defense Secretary Mark Esper's public disapproval of his suggestion to send in US troops to subdue protests that he was on the brink of firing Esper, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump has said he wants to "deploy the United States military" in response to protests and unrest in the nation's capital and elsewhere in the wake of the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd pleaded that he could not breathe.
Trump said last week that if a city or state fails to act, "then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," suggesting that he might invoke the Insurrection Act.
Esper broke with the president on Wednesday, catching the White House off guard at a Pentagon press briefing where he expressed opposition to the Insurrection Act and sending active-duty troops into American cities to combat unrest.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-reportedly-wanted-fire-defense-193823325.html
Crapping his Depends again
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