According to an upcoming book, Trump wanted to shoot George Floyd protestors. Can you just shoot them? He asked if they should shoot them in the legs. The way in which he had to talk Trump out of that idea was recounted in his book. According to a forthcoming book written by a former Secretary of Defense, Donald Trump wanted to shoot demonstrators protesting the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd. The book "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times" is scheduled for release in May, and it states that Trump became increasingly frustrated with the fury caused by the death of Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police. Excerpts from the book were first reported by the website. Can you just shoot them? Trump asked the protestors if they wanted to shoot them in the legs. According to the excerpt, at that particular moment, the idea weighing heavily in the air, and the president red faced and complaining loudly about the protests under way in Washington, felt like it wassurreal, sitting in front of the Resolute desk, inside the Oval Office. This wasn't a difficult decision, he said. The good news is that I was able to figure out a way to get Trump back. In the past year, other books have described the tightrope that Esper walked as he sought to control Trump's impulses in using military force as a mark of strength on the domestic front. The New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns recounted a testy June 2020 call featuring Trump and the nation's governors in the forthcoming book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future." Martin and Burns said that at the time, the governors were pressed to "dominate" the landscapes of their states. They wrote in the book that Trump urged the governors to return to public order while demanding a swift return to racial justice protestors. In the Rose Garden later that day, Trump threatened to deploy federal troops if the governors did not move quickly. The Washington Post reporters wrote a book last year called "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year." According to the Leonnig and Rucker book, Trump mentioned the 1960s race riots to justify the use of troops. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that it was not comparable to the summer of 1968. According to the Leonnig and Rucker book, the president told his defense secretary that he wasn't doing enough to solve the problem after he was told that the National Guard was the best option to stop unrest. In November 2020, shortly after the presidential election, Trump terminated his position. Christopher Miller replaced him. A representative for Trump did not reply immediately. 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The lawsuit over the way his company's security guards beat up protesters in 2015 seems relatively minor. Lawyers in the case believe that Michael Cohen was in the room when Trump ordered guards to attack the protesters. It would mean that the former president lied. Amazon told workers in a message that they will get five days of excused, unpaid leave after a COVID-19 diagnosis. There are challenges for Amazon after a recent effort to unionize some warehouses.
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