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

[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.

[ChicagoConservative27]

A book? Uh huh.... 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[Erik Latranyi]

Because it is wrong to discuss options with your team....you should just make decisions without any debate.

[MortMan]

That’s what looters and arsonists are for, aren’t they?

[Pxzftrnqfrn]

So did every normal human being watching.

[DesertRhino]

If you throw a fire bomb, a brick, loot, or attack victims as a mob. the cops or national guard should shoot to kill. Esper was a traitor.

[PGR88]

Trump should have let them burn Washington DC to the ground.

Of course, the those controlling the BLM riots had a plan for exactly what they would burn, and what they would not.

[dforest]

Does this Esper dude need a job? They write a book and crap on Trump to prove their creds as being non MAGA.

[Sarcazmo]

One more thing me and PDJT have in common.

[EastTexasTraveler]

Exactly.

[conservative98]

Fake news.

[sam_whiskey]

“Trump at the time mentioned the 1960s race riots to justify the use of troops to restore order, per the Leonnig and Rucker book.

“Mr. President, it doesn’t compare anywhere to the summer of sixty-eight,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said. “It’s not even close.””

No comparison? Really? Is that a fact?

[Magnum44]

If you throw a fire bomb, a brick, loot, or attack victims as a mob, the cops or national guard should shoot to kill.

No argument there. I would even add a few things to the list, like trafficking fentenal across borders.

[rktman]

If ones life and property are at risk, yup! Instead bend to the $blm extortion seemed to be the way things went.

[Leep]

Sounds like Trump should have had Esper shot.

[1Old Pro]

NY Times book about Trump, Esper Book about Trump, Trump’s drunken niece book about Trump.

Look, if the Trump haters/MSNBC viewers want to waste their money on this stuff to make them feel better, well, it’s a free country.

[G Larry]

Well Mark, it's because your "protesters" were committing ARSON and ASSAULTING, and MURDERING people....

But you know that, and failed to reference those facts because it would hurt book sales.

[OttawaFreeper]

Kind of like this?

[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.

[rovenstinez]

With about two or three dead..It would have immediately curtailed the mess. Sometimes you have to make an example and someone becomes a victim. SHOOT, stop the burning.

[Williams]

If the looters and arsonists were shot, the cities wouldn’t have been destroyed. And they have been destroyed.

Of course store owners should have been allowed to shoot violent looters and rioters.

The fact we think it’s too much to defend ourselves in dozens of cities, because one drug addict died in police custody, is part of our insanity.