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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

Posted on 05/02/2022 11:04:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

I really get tired of the BS “headlines” you constantly promote here on FR


21 posted on 05/02/2022 11:16:04 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Trump admits it then so be it ... otherwise I don’t believe it. Trump can be misunderstood and the guy wants to sell a book, right?


22 posted on 05/02/2022 11:16:24 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sacred oath??? To who? Soroz? Shwabb?


23 posted on 05/02/2022 11:16:29 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A number of innocent people, almost all of them black, died in these leftist riots. Trump was absolutely right. The US failed its duty to protect citizens because these were politically anointed riots.


24 posted on 05/02/2022 11:17:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He'll make the morning show rounds, get a fawning profile in the Washington Post or NY Times, get retweets from drooling sycophants, and his book will be in the dollar bin by the end of June.
25 posted on 05/02/2022 11:17:54 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was for that as well. Because many of the “george floyd protesters” were burning and looting buildings and terrorizing citizens.


26 posted on 05/02/2022 11:18:04 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; ...

Violent domestic terrorists and criminals are “Demonstrators.”


27 posted on 05/02/2022 11:18:31 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I see. So he was asking permission from local governments to deploy national guard troops, and wherever he got that permission he ordered them to shoot down protesters? And wherever he was refused, protesters were not shot down, except by 17-year-old kids./s


28 posted on 05/02/2022 11:19:10 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Emphasis on the “demon” in “demonstrators”


29 posted on 05/02/2022 11:20:01 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wasn’t just DJT. A whole lot of us out here in flyover country wanted the same thing...
That aside, though, if the context of such discussion was within larger dialog about alternative responses, then this is just more lefturd dog whistles.


30 posted on 05/02/2022 11:20:01 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Sarcazmo

If people are protesting peacefully, etc. they have a right to do that.

Once they started blocking roadways, burning cars and buildings, looting stores, assaulting people, shining lasers into the eyes of cops or pelting them with feces, urine, frozen bottles, bricks or worse, the level of force should have been stepped up to and including shooting people.

I just don’t understand how anyone in government can justify standing back (”giving them space”) to Burn, Loot, and Murder, but...they sure did rationalize that, even if wasn’t actually part of their plan.

If President Trump had said that shooting people who were burning buildings, assaulting citizens/police, and looting private business, that would be another reason for me to vote for him.


31 posted on 05/02/2022 11:21:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The LAAP-dog media is in overdrive spamming the country with Trump agitprop.

See:

This is all about the upcoming mid-term elections. They are trying to gaslight Republican candidates into distancing themselves from President Trump in order to drive a wedge between Trump and the incoming class of Republicans.

They want to break his base before 2024.

-PJ

32 posted on 05/02/2022 11:21:26 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Sarcazmo

Darn Tootin!

33 posted on 05/02/2022 11:22:09 AM PDT by xp38
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To: sam_whiskey

Mark Milley was 10 in 1968 and Trump was 22. Pretty sure I know who had a better memory and understanding of it.


34 posted on 05/02/2022 11:23:56 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I read this heading and my first thought was “And why is this a bad thing?”

This guy was Trump’s Sec. of Defense?

I’m happy to hear that Trump entertained the notion of shooting the looters.

I note that this did not happen.

What is Esper’s point?


35 posted on 05/02/2022 11:24:43 AM PDT by Fishtalk (https://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Esper is a back stabber.


36 posted on 05/02/2022 11:24:59 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Extraordinary Times

Really? "Extraordinary times"?

Compaired to these times, the Trump era was a tea party.

37 posted on 05/02/2022 11:25:02 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Someone like Mark Esper would love for the J-6 Inquistion Group to call him in for questioning. He’s probably wondering why they haven’t already done so?


38 posted on 05/02/2022 11:25:09 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: 1Old Pro
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.

They don't waste their money. These books don't sell. The whole point is they are a bribe to get these people to lie.

39 posted on 05/02/2022 11:26:35 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

Stops rioting and looting every time it’s tried. See Kent State.


40 posted on 05/02/2022 11:26:41 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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