According to this new story Trump met Monday morning with his national security chiefs and demanded 10,000 active duty troops be deployed to protest hotspots around the country. They resisted this demand and tried to shift him to holding a conference ... cbsnews.com/news/trump-dem…
2/ call with governors in which he told them they were global laughingstocka for not trying to dominate the streets in their cities while the national security chiefs implored them to deploy national guard troops. If this story is accurate they were trying to find a way ...
3/ around refusing his orders. Later the White House purportedly coaxed then back to the White House and involved them in the photo shoot and crowd dispersal without their knowing what was happening. Whether or not that’s true something is left out of this account.
4/ At some point on Monday morning, apparently before the call with Governirs, Trump had a phone conversation with Vladimir Putin. It’s not clear what they talked about. And it’s at least not clear to me whether the Putin call happened before or after the meeting over the ...
5/ 10,000 troops. It’s clear that Trump was very pumped up about the need for a show of force and that the governors looked weak and that the world was laughing at them. This fear of appearing weak and being the object of laughter is perennial for Trump. It comes up again ...
6/ and again. But it seems likely that this issue of how the situation appeared abroad came up during the Putin phone call. And it seems hard to believe Trump didn’t raise the issue of the protests and the use of force since that was clearly what dominated his thinking ...
7/ and actions through the day. So what did Putin tell Trump? What did they talk about?
8/ Now the Newyorker and NBC both have their own versions of the story. Different set of details but the same basic gist of a demand for 10,000 regular army soldiers in American cities.
