Can't you just shoot them?

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Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a memoir out May 10 that former President Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"

https://www.axios.com/mark-esp...3b-164daab7b43d.html

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Piano*Dad

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Most of the GOP base would have no problem with that.

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We've said it many times over one way or another, but it really is SO depressing.

Especially given the degree of polarization in how such a POV from the president would be apt to be perceived by the split electorate.

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Most of the GOP base would have no problem with that.

That is too nice. Most would applaud it.

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