Trump's Pentagon Chief Quashed Idea to Send 250,000 Troops to the Border
Source: New York Times, No Paywall
President Trumps defense secretary thought the idea was outrageous.
In the spring of 2020, Mark T. Esper, the defense secretary, was alarmed to learn of an idea under discussion at a top military command and at the Department of Homeland Security to send as many as 250,000 troops more than half the active U.S. Army, and a sixth of all American forces to the southern border in what would have been the largest use of the military inside the United States since the Civil War.
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maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)Release every fucking thing. Fuck Executive Privilege forever. We need to see it all.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)"unclear if the plan was ever presented to Trump".
but the raids into Mehico, those were his idiotic idea.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)never got his biggie war photo for a fundraiser, at taxpayer expense. Would have cost a mint for that stupidity.