Trump Demanded 10,000 Active- Duty Troops Deploy To Streets
Source: CBS News
(2 hrs. ago). In a heated and contentious debate in the Oval Office last Monday morning, President Trump demanded the military put 10,000 active duty troops into the streets immediately, a senior administration official told CBS News. Attorney General William Barr, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley objected to the demand, the official said.
In an attempt to satisfy Mr. Trump's demand, Esper and Milley used a call with the nation's governors later that morning to implore them to call up the National Guard in their own states, the official said. If these governors didn't "call up the Guard, we'd have (active duty) troops all over the country," this official said.
That same day, the Pentagon started bringing in 1,600 active-duty troops to bases just outside the District of Columbia. Late that afternoon, Esper and Milley were on their way to the FBI's Washington Field Office, where the command center for the military and law enforcement response to the protests was located, the official said. En route, they received a call to come to the White House to give the President an update.
After the meeting, Esper reversed his decision to send the 700 troops home - not because of the president's anger, but because he had received reports that protesters were planning a million man march on Washington for Saturday. After another night of no violence in the streets, Esper again gave the order to send the 700 paratroopers back to Bragg and on Friday gave another order to withdraw all but 350 of the troops who had been placed on alert...
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NYT: 'Milley, America's Top General, Walks Into A Political Battle,' June 6, 2020.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/milley-americas-top-general-walks-140631754.html
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Doesn't sound like Angela Merkel is very happy about dump's latest decision.
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