Defense Secretary breaks with Trump on invoking Insurrection Act

Secretary of Defense Mark Espers breaks with President Donald Trump and says he does not support using active duty troops to quell protests following George Floyd's death. #CNN #News

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    1. @Moe Tajvidi Nobody needs people like that. Esper needs to go run a daycare. He has no guts.

    2. @Silly Milkmaid keep him away from kids!!! You don’t want them to imitate this coward. He can pick garbage instead.

  1. It’s starting to look like the cellar dweller and his swampy goons should be getting familiar with the bunker.

    1. Bunker Boy Trump is going to see his wall of protection and sycophantic support slowly dissapeared after that tyrannical use of blunt force against peaceful Americans.
      This is getting dire!

    1. @Nathaniel Barton you couldn’t make it up. If you watched a film about this you would think that’s far fetched no realistic at all. But its fucking true, in fucking believable!

    2. I could be wrong, but I think he’s trying shift blame to the police by how he stated no national guard

  2. โ€œThe ultimate measure of a person is not
    where one stands in moments of
    comfort and convenience, but where
    one stands in times of challenge and
    controversy.โ€
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    1. @Rachel Brown if he only pretends to care through words and actions you’re still better off. Just sayin

    1. no leftie nazis allowed these non americans are not welcome in america or the west no more ,left wing nazis out,go get them mr orange trump,take down traitor pretend good left wing bum sniffers

    1. @Angela Baiers Angela move to China…You were talking about China not the USA. We just simply made more debt to your children. And you are an idiot….

  3. Mr โ€œDominate the battle spaceโ€ is now changing his tune, but he was caught on audio along with Trump. Heโ€™s just as bad as Trump and his buddy Pompeo. Esper once again shows that he has no credibility.

    1. No credibility, BUT he stood up against Trumps action. He can’t have much credibility when joining this team after all you had, but he did stand up here and say very, very important words. Trump is checking out his options for when he’ll be elected out (all the “voter fraud and rigged election”-phrasing is forthshadowing what he will do in November if it’s close, and his calling for his militia in Minnesota was another wakeup call). The military option at least got a lot harder now.

      Yet (being from germany and seeing history repeat 100% until now) this is not over. Hitler did all the things Trump did, call the press the enemy of the people, MGGA – make Germany great again – creating enemys (socialists, Obama, Mexico, China, younameit), creating how own militia, holding rallys. He created a propaganda channel. Hitler did all that, yet he did not have the full support from the government. Then his troops burnt down the government building, they blamed the Socialists – and the putting in jail began. Then murdering. Then war. Then holocaust.

      You are precisely on the road and Trump is weighing all his options. He’s absolutely going for this. “Antifa” are his German socialists. And his militia is already burning down places in disguise, “antifa_us” is calling for violence from twitter – then twitter reveals it’s a rightwing fake. They’re going for it. And it is so important that Esper spoke up. And Mattis. He might have no credibility, but he is doing the right thing here.

    2. Probably more metaphorical at that time. And a good chance he was just humoring the orange dotard.

  4. For an administration that claims it has everything under control, they seem to say, “I was unaware.” an awful lot.

  5. “We went there to greet the troops”

    “The path we took did not allow us to greet the troops”

    “You did not see what you think you saw, unsee now!”

    1. I wonder if he has picked out is favorite psalms out of that book he was holding yet ๐Ÿค”

    1. Right!!?? i clicked on it with hope…. now I’m more discouraged. Trash human, lying to the American people about objective reality…

  6. “They got the guns, but we got the numbers. Gonna win, yeah, we’re taking over.” – Jim Morrison

    1. @Cold Beer i am with you buddy, and so are many more. These commies are only 30 % of the population.
      They are not the majority.

    2. No Shawn, they not the only one who has guns, it’s going to be a blood bath. This street con thug walk in the white house, and fuk this whole country up. and it’s so sad that Mitch , Lindsey and others trying to make Trump a dictator. We have a rainbow of people that will die for their rights. And Putin just sitting back waiting. We need to mail in vote.

  7. no rubber bullets or tear gas? the idiot knows we have this on film, right? who is he kidding?

  8. If you support the First Amendment, why are peaceful protesters being attacked? We are seeing it all over the country.

    1. @johnathan smith I don’t know how well you know my history, but I guess I do know some about it.

      I studied it on university.

      Do you know how it started? Calling the press the enemy, creating a cult, talking about “making Germany great again”, playing out fear, unfair treatment to “the best people” by the French due to reparations on WW1.

      He started a cult based on that. He got elected, yet he did only get about 28%.

      Then his militia put a government building on fire. He blames the socialists, who were opposing him. With the minority of people following him at that point.

      Then, after he blamed the Socialists for the Reichstagsbrand, his followers blindly accepted he was right, “his enemies” burnt down the Reichstag, right? Altough it was a false flag action.

      And THEN noone could stop them.

      But hey, thanks for teaching me a lesson on my country. I know I left out some steps, but those might sound familiar to you.

    2. Well, actually, I shouldn’t have left out that he build jobs by building up military infrastructure (Autobahn) And it was 18%, not 28%, sorry about that.

      But yeah, I know what you WANT to tell me, but it’s just the opposite, Sir. I know you have that weird “but the nazis were socialists, it says so in the name” – yeah. That’s the trick they pulled when they named themselfes. There was NOTHING socialist about their ideology.

    1. When the police chiefs are standing down, and they abandon neighborhoods, Trump was right use any military. Even liberals in Manhattan are saying the Mayor needs call in the guard. And Cuomo won’t do it either. Meanwhile New York’s neighborhoods are burning. It’s getting a little better, slowly, but not much. Cuomo and DeBlasio no empathy for the people in the neighborhoods whose iives are being destroyed.

    2. @Agnes Philomena You say they have no empathy, what about Trump, you think he has empathy for the peaceful protesters he had brutally push out of the way, just so he can do a photo opportunity?

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