The latest from Mark Esper, who was nominally Secretary of Defense during the Trump Administration, but as you can see, actually didn't want to defend the country, the national Capital, or the White House from a violent insurrection:
I've explained how the leg-shooting thing, although deprecated in normal self-defense, can be useful with crowds of invaders and insurrectionists.
The State of Israel finds it works:
Trump wanted to use the military, but the disloyal military brass, and especially disloyal Esper, simply refused:
Amid concerns that Trump planned to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, Mark Esper, then the secretary of defense, publicly announced that he did not support such a move.
“The option to use active-duty forces in a law-enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations,” Esper said at a Pentagon press briefing. “We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act.”
See Paul Kersey here:
We've written about earlier reports of Esper's refusal to defend the Capital, the White House, or the United States Of America.
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And this attitude is endemic in the military.
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A new GOP President will need to clean house on day one.
