Trump Almost Fired Esper | Talking Points Memo

President Trump reportedly came close to firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper after the Pentagon official broke with the President over invoking the Insurrection Act to quell the violence that emerged during nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death.


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Esper: “Dammit, so close. Maybe if I make a pass at Ivanka?”

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Trump Almost Fired Esper

Tommy Cottonballs sees his short-term quest for global domination crushed.

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I want to know which toady came up with the idea of using the Insurrection Act and then it planted into the Orange Gasbags head.

'Cause he sure a sh#t didn’t come up with the idea on his own.

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According to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday citing several administration officials, advisers and allies on Capitol Hill talked the President out of firing Esper. Officials told the Journal that Trump was “furious” over the defense secretary’s opposition to invoking the Insurrection Act.

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Couldn’t find anyone else to take the job?

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Trump [yawn] is upset with [yawn] a member…of…hiszzzzzzzzzzz

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Trump’s a lame duck. Nobody is listening to him anymore.

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Stephen Miller or Giuliani, my guess. Giuliani would have known about it, and he’s part of the shadow cabinet Trump talks with on the phone.

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My money is on “Who’s Your Vladdy”.

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He was given the idea to use troops by putin during their phone call last Monday.

It was up to the others to come up with a legal justification.

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I think when you look up the phrase “cl#st#r f#ck” in the handbook of American idioms there’s a photo of this administration next to it.

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Though they’ve been warned, someone will say yes to an offer.

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We’re inside of 5 months to the election and Trump continues to lead the most unstable, chaotic government in my lifetime. If he wins a second term, most Americans will have a chance to serve in a Cabinet level position as Trump makes more rotations in his Cabinet than the moon does around the earth.

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This is the real reason Trump backed down and had Barr send in his prison guards- because he now realizes he’s lost the military.

And he should be afraid, if his hand picked lackeys found spine enough to say no.

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What, you slept through the Obama years?

Who is on the new short list for Secretary of Defense? Nicki Minaj??

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In other news, I read tweets that claim with apparent seriousness that they are indeed going to have an address on race and that Miller is indeed writing it. Maybe it’s true. We’ve all gotten a lot of practice in believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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She’s already turned it down.

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Castor - Best to label snark, as it not always clear what is meant. There really are people who might believe such absurdities.

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