Esper’s Trump revelations should prompt action from Democrats

Mark T. Esper, who served Donald Trump as defense secretary, alleges in a new book that he witnessed the former president in the Oval Office suggesting that members of the military should shoot protesters “in the legs or something.” Esper suggests others were present during that meeting.

Trump denies it. He says those witnesses present would back him up.

As it turns out, this is something that Congress might investigate and try to settle, one way or the other. Will Democrats act?

The key revelation, which Esper detailed in an interview on CBS News on Sunday, supposedly took place during an Oval Office meeting about protests against police brutality in early June 2020. Trump ranted at aides, said they were all “f---ing losers” and suggested deploying 10,000 troops to the streets of Washington, D.C.

According to Esper, Trump said of the protesters, “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.”