'None of you have any backbone to stand up to violence.' he screamed as he hastened to hide in the basement... Trump profanely fumed at Mike Pence after military leaders refused to shoot protesters: book Former President Donald Trump raged at former Vice President Mike Pence and other senior administration officials after military leaders refused to shoot down protesters following the police murder of George Floyd. The former president suggested shooting protesters "in the legs or something" in the summer of 2020, according to a new book by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who said Trump angrily berated him and other senior officials when they refused to go along with his proposition, reported The Guardian. “‘You are losers!’ the president railed. ‘You are all fucking losers!’" Esper said the president often used that type of language, but he said the episode stood out because he had never seen Trump that angry or direct such venom at people in the same room -- which at the time included Pence, attorney general William Barr and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “He repeated the foul insults again, this time directing his venom at the vice-president as well, who sat quietly, stone-faced, in the chair at the far end of the semi-circle closest to the Rose Garden," Esper wrote. "I never saw him yell at the vice-president before, so this really caught my attention.” Barr described the same "tantrum" in his own book, but did not include the details about Pence or the proposal to shoot protesters. “Trump shouted, ‘None of you have any backbone to stand up to the violence,’ and suggested we were fine with people ‘burning down our cities,'" Esper wrote. Trump did not order the shootings, but he made clear that's what he wanted to be done. “[He was] waiting, it seemed, for one of us to yield and simply agree," Esper wrote. "That wasn’t going to happen.”
I was going to call Trump ignorant but he is too stupid to understand what ignorant means. Stephen Colbert Pokes Trump Right In His Sorest Of All Sore Spots There's one insult the former guy doesn't like at all. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-stupid_n_6274a1c9e4b00fbab62c32b5 Stephen Colbert spotted a moment in a new interview where Donald Trump admitted that there’s an insult he really doesn’t like. The former president told the Christian Broadcasting Network that he took a cognitive test because he didn’t like being called “stupid.” As Colbert noted, the exam does not measure intelligence but looks for signs of cognitive impairment. Trump, however, crowed about passing. “It was an amazing thing,” he said, suggesting it forced his critics to admit to his intelligence. “They now call me a dictator and other things, but they don’t call you stupid.” Colbert was stunned into silence for about eight seconds. “He thinks we don’t call him stupid?” he finally said, then dramatically turned to another camera for a close-up. “What a moron!” See more in his Thursday night monologue:
Mark Esper: 'We were all dumbstruck' when Trump wanted to send in the military to crush DC protesters On Monday's edition of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," former President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, discussed his horror over how his former boss handled Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, D.C. "When you were sitting across the from the president and he is suggesting something like shoot the Black Lives Matter protestors in the legs, what do do — what does your face look like?" asked Cooper. "I was just dumbstruck by it," said Esper. "And he was speaking to General Mark Milley when he asked that, can't you just shoot 'em in the legs or something? I was shocked by it. To hear this from the president of the United States, saying shoot our fellow Americans in the streets of the nation's capital." "And not only talking police, he is talking U.S. military," added Cooper. "Deploying the U.S. military. Ten — he wanted 10,000 U.S. military forces outside the White House because of protestors."
Trump rages at Kellyanne Conway -- and suggests she 'go back to her crazy husband' if she thinks he lost in 2020
More proof that Donnie Boy gives doesn't give two shits about anyone but himself.... least of all his cultist base... Trump approved of ‘Hang Mike Pence’ chants The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots has heard testimony the former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows told aides that former President Donald Trump approved of his supporters calling for the hanging of then-Vice President Mike Pence. "Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify," Trump wrote at 2:24 p.m. on January 6th, 2021. "USA demands the truth!"
I haven't read the complete leak from this committee....Based on the Trump quote posted here.....Its a big leap from this statement to endorsing a Hanging.....Wow They are mis-leading because they know this committee is done, cooked They subpoena other members in congress, first time ever....these all go to court and will die 1/2/23 when new Congress assembles. They want prime-time hearings in June...These will have low ratings......Jan 6 is over , normal people don't want any part of it
Now remember , Mr President ..... only The Mob takes the 5th. Trump loses appeal in NY civil probe -- now he'll have to testify under oath A four-judge panel has ruled against former President Donald Trump in his attempt to get out of testifying under oath in a civil lawsuit filed by the New York State Attorney General. Per The Associated Press, the panel upheld Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling from earlier this year that enforced the New York AG's subpoena against the twice-impeached former president. In their ruling, the judges shot down arguments made by Trump lawyers that he should not be forced to testify in a civil probe while a parallel criminal probe into the same instance was also ongoing. "The existence of a criminal investigation does not preclude civil discovery of related facts, at which a party may exercise the privilege against self-incrimination," they wrote.
Trump throws temper tantrum after John Durham fails to get a guilty verdict in Michael Sussman trial Donald Trump pitched a tantrum after the acquittal of Democratic lawyer Michael Sussman. The cybersecurity attorney was indicted on charges brought by special counsel John Durham, a Trump appointee tasked with investigating the origins of the Russia probe, but a jury found that Sussman was not guilty of lying to FBI agents about his suspicions that the Trump Organization was in contact with the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank. "Our Legal System is CORRUPT," Trump posted after the verdict was announced, "our Judges (and Justices!) are highly partisan, compromised or just plain scared, our Borders are OPEN, our Elections are Rigged, Inflation is RAMPANT, gas prices and food costs are 'through the roof,' our military 'Leadership' is Woke, our Country is going to HELL, and Michael Sussman is not guilty. How's everything else doing? Enjoy your day!!!"