In 2020, Donald Trump would have been particularly virulent towards the Black Lives Matter protesters in the United States. In a book, which CNN obtained excerpts from and spotted by Le Figaro, the journalist of Wall Street Journal Michael Bender shared a chilling suggestion the former president allegedly made to the police.
Donald Trump ready for anything? Adept at controversies and provocations of all kinds during his presidential term, Joe Biden’s predecessor has once again made about him for his behavior. In a book called Honestly we won this election and written by the journalist of Wall Street Journal, Michael Bender, of which CNN has obtained extracts, relayed by Le Figaro, the Chief of Staff of the American Armies, Mark Milley, returned to a shocking suggestion that the former president of the United States would have made to police officers in the summer of 2020. At the time, several cities in the United States demonstrated in the streets to protest against police violence following the death of George Floyd which moved the whole world. Protest movements that did not please Donald Trump, who immediately wanted to reply.
When he confided in Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal, the chief of staff of the american armies remembered particularly virulent comments employed by Melania Trump’s husband at the material time. He said in particular that Donald Trump was delighted to see the police confront, sometimes very brutally, Black Live Matters protesters. “This is how you are supposed to handle people“, he allegedly let go of the senior military and law enforcement officials gathered in the oval office. He even ordered them to go further:”Just shoot them” or “Break their skulls!“, said Ivanka Trump’s father. Words that chill your spine …
An extremely tense period
Several times, General Mark Milley was forced to oppose the President of the United States, who wanted the army to be merciless with the demonstrators gathered in the four corners of the country he led. Faced with his shocking statements, the Chief of Staff of the American Armies tried to reason with Donald Trump … in vain. “Well shoot them in the leg or in the foot“, suggested the statesman, thinking then to calm things down.
In one of the excerpts relayed by CNN, Michael Bender described a scene that testifies to the tensions that reigned in the country, and more particularly in the Oval Office, at that time. In a meeting, Stephen Miller, who was none other than Donald Trump’s advisor, spoke compared the Black Lives Matter events to “riots in a third world country“, noting that the major cities of the United States had “turned into war zones.” A scathing remark, which made General Mark Milley jump: “Shut up, fuck, Stephen!“, he would have retorted, exasperated by what he had just heard. Atmosphere.
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