Trump Wanted to Shoot Protesters

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2022/05/02/trump-wanted-to-shoot-protesters/

Trump Wanted to Shoot Protesters
May 2, 2022 at 7:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a new memoir that former President Donald 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?,” Axios reports.

[Emile]

1. Damn shoot protestors and praise rioting insurrectionists!

Trump ain't right in the head.

[myohmy2]

26. "Trump ain't right in the head."

...he's a Republican...

...

[MiHale]

2. Screams the "man" that is afraid of flying fruit...

[Caliman73]

42. Screams the man who wants to use State power to crush opponents...

The fruit thing, other than being an oddly specific fear that Trump has, was also an excuse to direct violence at protestors. Trump decries that the voices of people on his side are somehow being "unfairly" shut down when a Trump troll gets banned from a private social media app. At the same time, he wants to direct the power of the government to harm protestors who oppose his views. He has no morality, no ethics, and no real worldview except his own attainment of power.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. That's okay. Plenty of the protestors wanted to shoot you, Donny Dumbass! (n/t)

[tanyev]

4. "Oh, and make sure you do it from a good vantage point for me so I can watch."*

*presumed quote, unknown if actual

[GoCubsGo]

10. More like "Make sure the FoxNews cameras are recording it."

"So I can enjoy watching it over and over again from the comfort of my Lazy-Boy."

[PatSeg]

13. Spot on!

I can picture that.

[TheRealNorth]

47. The Biggest Loser does seem like the type who would enjoy watching his enemies hung with piano wire

[GoCubsGo]

49. Absolutely! If one ever listens to any of his rallies or interviews,

you'll note that he gets ultra-descriptive when he when he talks about any sort of violent act, like the one "illegal" who commits a murder. He'll go on and on in gory detail about it, and then move onto blathering about another act of violence. I think he gets off on death and violence.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. He's the ultimate coward.

[Me.]

6. THe Media Is Finally Paying Attebtiun To This?

it's old news they didn't care about before.

One example...https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/donald-trump-general-mark-milley-crack-skulls

[LW1977]

15. Better late than never, I guess..

[mopinko]

7. oh goodie. another one who kept his mouth shut when it mattered,

saved it to cash in on a book.
good luck w that, dude. see you on the remainder table.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. This was the guy that carried the Bible and displayed it like a photo op

[wnylib]

16. Upside down.

[masmdu]

28. Not true

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hold-bible-upside-down/

[LW1977]

17. Jesus would definitely shoot people.

Any Christian who’s not a real Christian would know this.

(JIC. )

[whopis01]

25. Republican Jesus would

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. Tin soldiers

Tin soldiers and tfg coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio

[twodogsbarking]

11. Kent State Day is this Wednesday.

[llmart]

14. I remember it well.

Horrible part of our past. We should never forget that innocent students died that day.

[wnylib]

20. Hard to forget for those of us who

were around in those days.

Friend of mine was a Kent student at the time. She had already been stuck in the middle of a high school protest that got violent and was rescued that time by her brother pushing her out a first story window.

When the tensions built up over the weekend before the Kent shootings, she went home and her parents kept her from returning that Monday. So she watched the news about the shootings at home. She knew one of the dead students. Never returned to classes there.

A decade later, my sister taught at Kent.

May 4 was my father's birthday.

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. ...

[llmart]

36. So true for those of us who lived in the area.

I wasn't a student there, but when I was single I used to go there with my two roommates on the weekend for parties. Kent was considered the party school in that area. I was so conflicted when that happened because my then husband was in the Ohio National Guard and I always wondered what he would have done if he had been faced with that scenario. Luckily he wasn't there that day. In hindsight, I'm not sure he wouldn't have been one of the ones who would fire into the crowd if ordered to. That's why he's my ex.

Several of my nieces and nephews went to Kent.

[wnylib]

41. I'm not from Ohio. My friend and I

were from Erie, close enough that there were Erie area natives among the Kent students and many people with ties to Kent.

Later, in the late '70s, I did live in Ohio, briefly in Toledo and then Cleveland for 5 years before moving to NY.

The Kent shootings were the turning point in support for the undeclared war in Vietnam. I still remember some people saying, "My God! We're killing our own children over this." Meantime, there were those who said the students "got what they deserved" even though the dead students were not among the protesters when the shots were fired.

It was a time just as polarized as today.

[llmart]

43. Erie

I was from a small town NE of Cleveland. The apartment I shared with two other girls was in Euclid. I'm sure you know where that is. Whatever family I have left still live in the area. I left Ohio in the early 80's and I am so glad I did. Yes, it was a time that was polarized, but I remember it more as being more generational. Wasn't the term "generation gap" coined then?

[wnylib]

46. Yes, "Never trust anyone in over 30."

But the polarization did cross generations, too, on some issues.

Euclid - My family said that some distant cousins had settled in Euclid and Willoughby. I never met them. My ggg grandfather went from NY to Richmond in Ashtabula county, but his son married a PA woman and settled there.

I "met" a 3rd cousin from Ohio on a genealogy message board. We never met in person, but he did send me a photo of my gg grandparents.

Travel between southwestern NY, northwestern PA, and northeastern OH was commonplace even in the early and mid 1800s.

[Ziggysmom]

19. Man I remember spinning that 45, it had Find the Cost of Freedom on the flip side.

CSNY were live in Milwaukee in 1974 where they played Ohio. Best concert of my life. One of the best days of my life.

Man, I really miss the days of shopping at the local record stores. Standing in line for a new album and usually the smell of patchouli and head shop pipes, T-shirts and black lights, posters and cool stuff.

The 70s weren't all fun. The Kent State shooting was horrible and only ten days later, police killed two black student protestors at Mississippi Jackson State University, too. Some things never change........

[Ferrets are Cool]

33. It does seem that they only cycle.

CSNY were a great band. Many protest songs...at least that is the way I remember it.
Very few of those nowadays...at least in pop music. There are protest songs being recorded IF you look for them.

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[Stuart G]

12. The total truth about Trump is now out.."Can't you just shoot them?" are words that Donald Trump...

will always be remembered for.. About his feelings about our country, our history, and the rule of law.

[Justice matters.]

24. And his deep ignorance of the United States Constitution he swore an Oath...

to protect and defend, on a bible... but that must have been just for show.

Of course! It WAS just for show ... with king orangutan in the center view

[Lonestarblue]

32. And, if I remember correctly, Trump also wanted the Border Patrol to shoot migrants.

He is, was, and has always been a despicable human being.

[niyad]

18. This is not new, we learned of it at the time.

[wnylib]

21. Yes, I remember.

[ShazzieB]

27. I do, too!

I'd forgotten about it, but when I read the quote, it all came rushing back.

It's just another classic example of what a lousy excuse for a human being the orange one is.

[TheRealNorth]

48. We knew he wanted to send the military into Minneapolis...

Thats when I knew it was time to start "gunning up", as I had been fearing something like Jan 6 for a few years prior.

[spike jones]

22. Gov. Reagan- If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with..

https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/if-it-takes-a-bloodbath-lets-get-it-over-with/

[Hotler]

23. His voters can't wait to kill Dems and Libs.

[BadgerMom]

35. Sorry. I had the same thought further down the thread.

[Lucky Luciano]

29. Well I wish the J6 rioters were all mowed down and thrown in the garbage afterwards.

[IronLionZion]

30. Sounds Putinesque

Things don't end well for protesters in Russia

[BadgerMom]

34. Remember Kent State.

“Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio.” -Neil Young

It’s how Republicans think. It’s control. They don’t know from patriotism. Americans who disagree are cannon fodder to them.

[Bev54]

37. I am pretty certain we heard this a long time ago, perhaps from another book?

[Ligyron]

38. Of course he did... and he's said far worse too.

[Takket]

39. Wow. I can't wait to hear what all the free speech loving rethugs

Think of this! Drumpf is finished for sure!!!

[FakeNoose]

40. "What would Putin do?" is all he ever cared about

Does this surprise us? Of course not.

[Martin Eden]

44. Imagine if the coup had succeeded

What would this sociopath do without restraints?

[Novara]

45. Another asshole trying to make a buck off a book containing information that might have done some...

... good at the time.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. Who is surprised by this?

TFG is an asshole

[Blue Owl]

51. That fat depraved piece of shit can go fuck himself

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

52. #SociopathInChief.

Yet worshipped & adored by millions.

[LudwigPastorius]

53. If that motherfucker gets back in, with a Republican congress and SCOTUS,...

it's over. The American experiment, that is. ...the constitution...a democratic republic...all of it.

I don't like hyperbole, but I firmly believe the above statement is NOT that.