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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   By Phil Stewart   
      
   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told his advisors at one   
   point this past week [June 2020] he wanted 10,000 troops to deploy to the   
   Washington D.C. area to halt civil unrest over the killing of a black man by   
   Minneapolis police, according to a senior U.S. official.   
      
   The account of Trump’s demand during a heated Oval Office conversation on   
   Monday   
   shows how close the president may have come to fulfilling his threat to deploy   
   active duty troops in U.S. cities, despite opposition from Pentagon leadership.   
      
   At the meeting, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs   
   of Staff, General Mark Milley, and Attorney General William Barr recommended   
   against such a deployment, the official said, speaking on condition of   
   anonymity. The meeting was “contentious,” the official added.   
      
   The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.   
      
   Trump has since appeared satisfied with deployments by the National Guard, the   
   option recommended by the Pentagon and a more traditional tool for dealing with   
   domestic crises. Pentagon leaders scrambled to call governors with requests to   
   send Guard forces to Washington. Additional federal law enforcement were   
   mobilized too.   
      
   But also key for Trump appears to have been Esper’s move to preposition --   
   but   
   not deploy -- active duty soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division and other   
   units in the Washington D.C. area. Those troops have since departed.   
      
   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protest-tr   
   ops/trump-wanted-to-deploy-10000-troops-in-washington-d-c-offici   
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   Trump wanted 10,000 *active duty* Army troops in Washington DC — not in   
   rational   
   dispute.  Thankfully, public servants with a tiny shred of integrity refused to   
   go along with the führer-wannabe's plans.   
      
   rat-boi sucks shit again.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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