Esper: Trump Asked About Shooting Protesters
He could order someone to stand in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose voters:
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a memoir out May 10 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?”
That seems like the kind of thing you’d save for a memoir rather than informing voters about it ahead of an election, huh, Mr. Esper?
Upon learning of this GOP voters realized that Trump was unfit for the Oval Office and backed away from him. Within a few days he was no longer the 2024 front runner and leader of the Republican Party.
Who am I kidding. This is what most of his supporters wanted.
Time123 (52b025) — 5/2/2022 @ 8:52 amWe probably would not hearing about it now if we did not have a Democratic administration and Esoer had not gotten a new gig with the military industrial complex. Procurement: It has more than one meaning.
nk (cbd295) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:08 amWho am I kidding. This is what most of his supporters wanted.
They are not unique. Plenty of leftsts who want a Mao who is unafraid of liquidating the capitalists.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:12 amImagine Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office watching on the screen while son Baron pilots the drone. Dropping flashbangs.
Here is a thread on how Ukrainians are attaching anti personnel munitions to their drones.
They are 3D printing fins and dropping them accurately from consumer drones at 900ft… a height where you can’t see or hear the drone.
They note it is a Secret Service nightmare
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1520561969153073153
steveg (a9183d) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:20 amWe probably would not be hearing about it now if we did not have a Democratic administration and Esper a new job with a defense supplier looking for a piece of $2 billion in defense spending
nk (fa654d) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:21 amTesting the filter: Procurement.
nk (fa654d) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:23 amThis is really part and parcel of the Trump “attraction” to those who felt dispossessed by 30 years of globalization and focus on the college-educated. They are not particularly concerned about subtlety or comity, they wanted action and Trump convinced them that he was their guy.
That Trump was all hat and no cattle is what should be emphasized, not that he was rude, crude or socially unacceptable (which to them is a plus).
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:32 amThe 1970 Kent State shootings were not unpopular among Nixon’s supporters; many of them said “Good” after years of frustration with student-held demos and riots against the Vietnam War. The press and the Democrats were outraged of course, and it cost the Republicans a lot of centrist votes at the midterms. Nixon still won a huge landslide victory in 1972.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:39 am*student-led
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:39 amHad Trump really said that, Esper would’ve leaked that out a long assed time ago.
OT: @JVW
whembly (7e0293) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:41 amTHIS. Is the result:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disneys-clash-with-florida-has-ceos-on-alert-11651440367
Whatever was said, it was not done. I’d love to see a book about what presidents said that was not done. The LBJ section would be particularly interesting.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 5/2/2022 @ 9:45 amWhatever was said, it was not done. I’d love to see a book about what presidents said that was not done. The LBJ section would be particularly interesting.
Who needs a book; listen to some tapes. There are some good one from LBJ but the king of the “what presidents said that was not done” club is The Big Dick. Those tapes are loaded with expletive deleted gems his staff never follow up on.
DCSCA (772b07) — 5/2/2022 @ 11:07 amTrumpWorld approves.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 5/2/2022 @ 12:54 pmDustin, good story showing that targeting Disney based on their has had a chilling effect on others. Thank you for sharing
Time123 (52b025) — 5/2/2022 @ 1:19 pmMy usual reaction to something like this is “Why, of course he would” and then move on to something else. What Trump is is very obvious. Whether you like it, hate it, or don’t care — isn’t going to change. the only thing that changes it is if somebody perceives actual harm coming from Trump being Trump. I’m not sure what moves the needle on that.
Appalled (1a17de) — 5/2/2022 @ 2:23 pmYes, finding new fault with Trump is shooting fish in barrel.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 5/2/2022 @ 5:24 pmbreaking news supreme court will overturn roe vs wade 5-4! Dred scott II great news unless your a wimp corporate establishment democrat. You mean now I have to do something other then whine with my cheese. The left will primary us with this. Call the whaaaambulence!
asset (ab9f0c) — 5/2/2022 @ 7:31 pmOrange man bad. Liberal justice good.
mg (8cbc69) — 5/2/2022 @ 8:38 pmFrom Justice Alito’s draft opinion, February, 2022:
Worse than that. It was a result of afraud on the court.
The court was told, and said in its opinion, that nobody much thought there was anything wrong with abortion until approximately the 1860s.
https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/reproduction/roe_v_wade.htm (it is difficult to find the full text (free) online quickly
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/3/2022 @ 3:05 pmTrump is no longer president.
Trump will never be president again. His phenomenal energy for a man his age will run out (may already be). He may develop a health issue. Trump may not be alive in 2024.
Trump’s “endorsements” mean little. The populist right will go on if Trump leaves the scene tomorrow.
DN (f72143) — 5/4/2022 @ 11:48 am