Mark T. Esper, who served as secretary of defense under President Donald Trump from June 2019 until November 2020 (when Trump fired him following the presidential election), looks back on his months in the White House in his new book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times." And one of the disturbing revelations in the book, according to Axios' Mike Allen, is that Trump wanted to "shoot" unarmed protesters during the Summer of 2020.
The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020 set off huge protests all over the world, including Washington, D.C. Trump's response, according to Esper, was, "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"
