According to Reuters, U.S. President Donald Trump told his advisors at one period this past week he wanted 10,000 troops to deploy to the Washington D.C. area to stop civil unrest over the killing of a black man by Minneapolis police, according to a senior U.S. official.
The report of Trump’s request during a heated Oval Office conversation on Monday reveals how near the president may have come to achieving his threat to deploy active-duty troops in U.S. cities, notwithstanding opposition from Pentagon leadership.
At the meeting, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, and Attorney General William Barr recommended against such a deployment, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The meeting was “contentious,” the official added.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment,Reuters reported.
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