Former secretary of defense for Donald Trump, Mark Esper, reveals Trump's calls for violence against Black Lives Matter protests in his new memoir. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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New book says Trump wanted troops to open fire on BLM protesters: ‘Can’t you just shoot them?’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-shoot-blm-protesters-mark-esper-b2069920.html
"As Black Lives Matter protesters swarmed outside the White House in 2020, then-president Donald Trump reportedly proposed a solution: “Just shoot them.”
That’s according to Mr Trump’s secretary of defense at the time, Mark Esper, in his upcoming memoir, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times, which comes out on 10 May.
In the spring of 2020, as protests over the brutal police murder of George Floyd convulsed the country, Mr Esper says the former president grew increasingly furious at the demonstrators flooding the streets of the capital.“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Mr Trump allegedly asked, according to an excerpt obtained by Axios."
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