Top US general rejected Trump suggestions military should 'crack skulls' during protests last year..

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This is yet more evidence that Donald Trump was the most dangerous president in American history.

Top US general rejected Trump suggestions military should 'crack skulls' during protests last year,...
The top US general repeatedly pushed back on then-President Donald Trump's argument that the military should intervene violently in order to quell the civil unrest that erupted around the country...
cnn.com
3:06 PM · Jun 24, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics/bender-book-trump-milley-protests/index.html

Washington (CNN) — The top US general repeatedly pushed back on then-President Donald Trump's argument that the military should intervene violently in order to quell the civil unrest that erupted around the country last year. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley often found he was the lone voice of opposition to those demands during heated Oval Office discussions, according to excerpts of a new book, obtained by CNN, from Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender.

Titled "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost," the book reveals new details about how Trump's language became increasingly violent during Oval Office meetings as protests in Seattle and Portland began to receive attention from cable new outlets. The President would highlight videos that showed law enforcement getting physical with protesters and tell his administration he wanted to see more of that behavior, the excerpts show.

"That's how you're supposed to handle these people," Trump told his top law enforcement and military officials, according to Bender. "Crack their skulls!"

Trump also told his team that he wanted the military to go in and "beat the f--k out" of the civil rights protesters, Bender writes.

"Just shoot them," Trump said on multiple occasions inside the Oval Office, according to the excerpts.

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"Shut the fuck up, Stephen," Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley reportedly said to Stephen Miller at a White House meeting on BLM protests and civil unrest.

[LastDemocratInSC]

1. He's just another mob boss from Queens.

[Hugin]

2. Finally little unfiltered glimpses of TFG we here all knew was there all along...

Are now starting to emerge.

It's important to understand, these were not isolated incidents. Tangerine Idi Amin is this ALL OF THE TIME! A never ending stream of obscenities, hatred, malice, greed, and any "-ism" you care to point out.

These stories only give a hint at the magnitude of behind the scenes manipulation and editing went on to make that filthy septic open burn pit of a man seem remotely like someone who should have been in the position he held.

All courtesy of the power mad Republicans and their donors.

[dalton99a]

3. We were ruled by a murderous, bloodthirsty dictator

[Hekate]

4. Adolf Hitler wannabe. Thank gods Milley hung around DC...

Both Milley and Esper were deeply opposed to the idea when Trump first suggested it last June following protests against police brutality and racial injustice in the wake of George Floyd's death.
According to Bender, Milley viewed the unrest around Floyd's death as a political problem, not a military one.

He told the President there were more than enough reserves in the National Guard to support law enforcement responding to the protests. Milley told him that invoking the Insurrection Act would shift responsibility for the protests from local authorities directly to the President, according to the excerpts obtained by CNN.

Milley spotted President Abraham Lincoln's portrait hanging just to the right of Trump and pointed directly at it, Bender writes.
"That guy had an insurrection," Milley said. "What we have, Mr. President, is a protest."

From the article in the OP.

[KS Toronado]

5. "Just shoot them," Trump said on multiple occasions "

Proves he cares about nobody but himself.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

6. TFG's stock just went up

The Trumphumpers. This is the reason they worship him. It’s a dangerous and armed cult.

[dixiechiken1]

7. Oh sure, it's all fun & games...

Until it's one of them whose skull "gets cracked". Witness: Ashli Babbitt.

I'm not sure we'll ever know the full extent of exactly how close we came to losing everything we hold dear to these jackbooted thugs. And we are SO not out of the woods yet.