Trump's Pentagon Chief Quashed Idea to Send 250,000 Troops to the Border

[reACTIONary]

Source: New York Times, No Paywall

President Trump’s 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]

1. Man, it just never stops with that former guy.

Release every fucking thing. Fuck Executive Privilege forever. We need to see it all.

[Hekate]

2. Jesus Christ in a Trailer Hitch, TFG was and is fcking nuts

[maxsolomon]

4. It seems like this was Stephen Miller's mischief.

"unclear if the plan was ever presented to Trump".

but the raids into Mehico, those were his idiotic idea.

[Corgigal]

3. Poor Trump

never got his biggie war photo for a fundraiser, at taxpayer expense. Would have cost a mint for that stupidity.