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Remember when Trump wanted to order our troops to shoot American citizens in the legs? [View all]
Remember when Trump wanted to order our troops to shoot American citizens in the legs? Should our troops have obeyed that order?
Remember when Trump wanted to order our troops to shoot American citizens in the legs? Should our troops have obeyed that order? www.axios.com/2022/05/02/m...
— Severian (@fuliginously.bsky.social) 2025-11-24T20:55:11.606Z
Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a memoir out May 10 that former President 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?"
https://www.axios.com/2022/05/02/mark-esper-book-trump-protesters
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