Accountability
Mark Esper claims Trump wanted to shoot BLM protesters around White House in 2020
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has written in a memoir, which will be released on May 10th, that former President Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”
The book, “A Sacred Oath,” contains first-person revelations by a top Cabinet member, bolstering outsiders’ accounts of dysfunction in Trump’s White House.
He wrote in his book, according to Axios, that the first week of June 2020 “was surreal, sitting in front of the Resolute desk, inside the Oval Office, with this idea weighing heavily in the air, and the president red faced and complaining loudly about the protests under way in Washington, D.C.”
“The good news, this wasn’t a difficult decision,” Esper continued of Trump’s idea to shoot protesters. “The bad news, I had to figure out a way to walk Trump back without creating the mess I was trying to avoid.”
Esper claimed he enraged Trump in June 2020 by publicly stating he opposed trying to stop the protests by invoking the Insurrection Act, which is an 1807 law that permits the president to use active-duty troops on U.S. soil.
The Axios report states that Esper’s book was vetted “at the highest levels” of the Pentagon, being reviewed in whole or in part by almost three dozen 4-star generals, senior civilians, and some Cabinet members. Some of them reportedly witnessed what Esper reported.
There were issues during the vetting process, with Esper filing a lawsuit against the Defense Department in November 2021 for “censoring” his First Amendment rights by redacting parts of his book, which he argued was “crucial to telling important stories discussed in the manuscript.”
Esper dropped the suit in February 2022 after the Pentagon reversed its stance on “the overwhelming majority” of material that officials had deemed classified, and what remained in dispute wasn’t central to the book, according to his lawyer.
The book alleges that Trump told his team that he wanted the military to “beat the f— out of” protesters, as CNN reported.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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Since “BLM” and “AntiFA” are insurrectionist they could have been shot. And remember, George Floyd committed an unintentional suicide. Nothing the officers did caused his death nor could they prevent it. Learn the real facts. George Floyd’s suicide was used to attack the police and undermine the real rule of law. Consider the following:
When ever some one brings up George Floyd’s death it is important to learn the real facts of the event and see through the lies and twisting of the facts used to promote the anti-Police agenda. The first to note that is constantly ignored is that George Floyd was on probation/parole. He was a convicted criminal due to his participation in a violent home invasion and other crimes. He was not some innocent person. He was a known violent criminal.
The only reason the police were involved in questioning George Floyd the day he died was they were called by a store where George Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 bill. By the time the police arrived George Floyd had gotten into his vehicle. Instead of cooperating with the police he refused to cooperate. Keep in mind any person who is on parole or probation can be searched at anytime by the police. They are still under the provisions of Amendment 13 and Amendment 4 does not stop them from being searched.
Now is when it get interesting. Knowing he would be searched George Floyd consumed all of the drug fentanyl he had in his possession. Indications have also indicated he may have been might have consumed meth as well. When one reads the various medical reports he consumed so much of it that it left a circular burn on his tongue. Reports indicates he started shaking. Since he continued to refuse to get out of the vehicle the police finally forced the door to the vehicle open and dragged him out of the vehicle. George Floyd continued to resist and fight the police.
Eventually, the police force George Floyd to the ground and used a set of standard methods to get him under control. After he stopped resisting them the officers started putting more attention to the crowd around them who had shown up as a result the police showing up. At some point a nurse, from reports, noticed that George Floyd appeared dead. Shortly after this the anti-Police movement that the “Left” created to create problems started accusing the police officers of causing George Floyd’s death. When one looks at the various video it becomes obvious that the one officer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck was not apply any significant pressure.
The anti-Police rhetoric results in the officers being charged with crimes related to George Floyd’s death. When one listened to the pathologists at the rigged trials of the officers one will notice how the pathologists downplayed the lethal amount of drugs in George Floyd’s system. The simple fact is George Floyd committed suicide and the “Left”, as usual, twisted the fact to advance their agenda of destroying society and the “Rule of Law”.
The look at how the “Left” tried to twist Eric Garner’s death, which was the result of his resisting arrest for doing what he knew would get him arrested again. He had been arrested and convicted of the same crime something like 49 times or more. He was also so obese that when he started the physical confrontation with the officer he caused a heart attack that eventually killed him two hours later. The look at how the “Left” tried to twist Michael Brown’s death. He attacks a police officer in a police car, trying to take the officer’s gun, started to flee, and then after the police officer got out of the car returns to attack the officer. The officers is forced to kill Michael Brown. They were not able to twist these cases to advance the anti-police agenda. But they were with the George Floyd death and the officers who were only doing their job. We can see the results of the anti-police agenda today as more people are being victimized by crime. The simple fact is the officers in the George Floyd case are the victims of the “Left’s” political witch hunt games used to advance their agenda of control and dictatorship.