Defense Secretary Mark Esper stepped up to challenge President Trump on Wednesday, publicly opposing the idea of deploying active-duty US troops into American cities to quell the growing protests. This militarization was a plan President Trump has loudly been advocating.
Esper ordered 200 troops away from Washington D.C. and back to base early in the day, but after a meeting at the White House, he reversed that. White House aides say Esper is rubbing some the wrong way. Esper’s position is rubbing a lot of Congressional Republicans the right way.
Multiple House and Senate Republicans are backing Esper’s position, saying that the use of active-duty US troops on US soil is meant to be a last resort. White House officials say that they don’t plan to fire Esper just yet, but that this could change.
While Trump did get support from a few hawkish senators on sending troops to American cities, there seems to be a substantial number uncomfortable with the idea of such operations. These Congressmen are finding a voice in Esper, and this is likely to make Trump getting rid of him a dangerous proposition.
As shown in this article, it is becoming increasingly clear that the implementation of contact tracing for the COVID-19 pandemic is being used to track demonstrators:
http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-real-intent-of-contact-tracing.html
COVID-19 contact tracing was never about the coronavirus.
It’s only “increasingly clear” if you have trouble reading.
Esper is absolutely right. Using the US military sends a bad signal to the rest of the world and is inflammatory here in the USA.
No allowing burning and looting send a bad signal to the world and doesn’t go over very well here either .
Fascism … It’s what’s for dinner … Wrapped in a flag and carrying a bible.
Esper changed his mind again…
Trump doesn’t want to crush the protesters . He will crush the burners and looters if the states refuse to stop them .
Just like those super violent DC church people tear gassed out of the way of the prez’s photo op?
But only because he was pissed about the bunker story. Mr. Narcissism was throwing a temper tantrum.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/trump-denies-sheltering-in-white-house-bunker-amid-protests-298406
He’ll crush no one. Cowering in the Fuhrerbunker shitting himself while OTHERS do the crushing isn’t the same thing as doing the crushing.
The Don was just doing a little inspecting is all. One time he did a 1/2 inspection. He’s that good.
“It was a false report. I wasn’t down. I went down during the day, and I was there for a tiny, little, short period of time. And it was much more for an inspection. There was no problem during the day,”
Trump also maintained that the Secret Service did not order him to the bunker, but merely “said it would be a good time to go down, take a look, because maybe some time you’re going to need it.”
Since assuming office in early 2017, Trump has entered the bunker roughly “2½” times, he said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/trump-denies-sheltering-in-white-house-bunker-amid-protests-298406
The protesters pushing down the White House barricades went too far.
Things are so volatile, toxic, and partisan, a second torching of the White House was cannot be out of the question.
Further large-scale burning and looting elsewhere is unlikely though. The retail apocalypse then economic shutdown limits the spoils of traditional looting and burning save maybe for collecting insurance.
Also, all those big city riots are by default blue centres. Trump would be laughing up his sleeve, since he figures Antifa was behind the unrest.
The problem is much bigger and wider, the way the police acts in the US, is how the US military has acted ( even worse ) for decades around the World.
And with all those military hand me downs, it’s hard to distinguish between the two.
And soldiers who left war zones end up being cops.
they also end up being criminals, in some cases.
Ironic that the 2nd amendment folk, that overwhelmingly support our wars and troops overseas aren’t quite aware of how much time those soldiers spent searching for, and confiscating weapons.
Good for Esper. He should be gone by the end of the week.
Never mind, I didn’t read the next article. Back to kissing Trump’s a$$.
https://apnews.com/e0e783dcbb316887f4fac5a4dbe92563
Never mind once more. Good for Esper. Again.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/501232-esper-orders-hundreds-of-active-duty-troops-outside-dc-sent-home-day-after
Was it to Quell or to Crush?
Its doubtful that Trump is fussy about the wording…
Esper seems caught between masters… his backers who want him in Cabinet and Trump who can fire him.
Not to fear… Trump’s little excursion to Church was apparently a ‘Jericho walk’ to swoon the evangelicals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/donald-trump-church-photo-op-evangelicals
Trump scooped the Armour of God respawn while the Dems were trying to remember how to horse-whisper on race. America is bipartisanly Christian enough that that will work far better than most care to admit.
Also, the cities are all blue centres; and even if the forces behind Antifa are involved, the faux progressives are running too low on cash to see the remains of their economic back yards looted and burned on top of COVID-19.