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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   On 8/19/2021 8:22 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   > 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 key takeaway is that high-level *conservatives* in government and the   
   military knew that Trump was wrong and incompetent, and they were absolutely   
   right to thwart him.   
      
      
   >   
   > 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-   
   roops/trump-wanted-to-deploy-10000-troops-in-washington-d-c-offi   
   ial-says-idUSKBN23E0DY   
   >   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
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