Donald Trump is hitting back at former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's claims that the former president wanted to shoot demonstrators who filled the streets around the White House during protests in June 2020.
Esper made the claims in his forthcoming book,"A Sacred Oath," writing that Trump also wanted to deploy 10,000 troops in"He says, 'Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.
"Mark Esper was weak and totally ineffective, and because of it, I had to run the military. I took out ISIS, Qasem Soleimani, al-Baghdadi, rebuilt the military with $2.5 trillion, created Space Force, and so much more," Trump said in the statement."Mark Esper was a stiff who was desperate not to lose his job." Trump added,"He would do anything I wanted, that's why I called him ‘Yesper.
"It really caught my attention, and I thought, that – we're at a different spot now. He's gonna finally give a direct order to deploy paratroopers into the streets of Washington, D.C. And I'm thinking with weapons and bayonets. This would be horrible," Esper said on 60 Minutes.
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