Has globalism gotten so bad that "protect the country you're in" is an exotic and incomprehensible concept?
Just ask former Secretary of Defense Esper.
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who served in the role under former President Trump, recalled a “ridiculous” plan made during the Trump administration to send a quarter of a million troops to the U.S.’s southern border in a “60 Minutes” interview to be released Sunday.
Esper said the move had been suggested by then-White House senior advisor Stephen Miller.
“He’s behind me, and this voice talking about the caravans are coming and we need to get troops to the border, and we need a quarter million troops,” Esper said of Miller, saying that they were in the Oval Office waiting for a meeting with Trump at the time. “And I think he’s joking, and I turn around and look at him and these dead-pan eyes, clearly he is not joking.”
Esper said he “turned squarely around to him, faced him and said ‘I don’t have a quarter million troops to send on some ridiculous mission to the border.’”
“It’s just so absurd I can’t even consider it,” Esper continued after saying that people in his department were working on the plan to send a quarter million troops to the border.
“Again, we don’t have 250,000 troops to send to the border, and to do what?” continued Esper. “It’s just ridiculous.”
I understand Esper's confusion. It's like working at Starbucks and then spending so much time being told that your job is to spread enlightenment that you're confused when someone asks you to make him a cup of coffee. --->READ MORE HERE
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he was 'flabbergasted' but a proposal to send 250,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border while he was serving in former President Donald Trump's Cabinet.
In a sit-down with 60 Minutes set to air Sunday, Esper revealed that it was Trump adviser Stephen Miller - an anti-immigration hardliner - who floated the plan, claiming that a large caravan of migrants was en route.
'I think he's joking,' Esper told CBS' Norah O'Donnell. 'And then I turn around and I look at him in these deadpan eyes. It's clear that he is not joking. And I say something like, "Well, look, DHS can handle whatever caravans are coming up. They've done so in the past."'
But Miller stood his ground.
'He said - he repeats - "No, we need a quarter-million troops." And I just turned squarely around him, face him and say, "I don't have a quarter-million troops to send on some ridiculous mission to the border,' Esper recalled.
Esper, who worked for Trump from July 2019 to November 2020, is publishing a memoir, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times, which arrives on bookshelves Tuesday. --->READ MORE HERE
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