White House wanted 10k active duty troops to quell protesters - CNN

The White House wanted to have 10,000 active duty troops on the streets of Washington and other cities earlier this week to quell protesters, but Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint of Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley pushed back at t… https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/politics/white-house-10k-troops-protesters/index.html