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Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper standing next to former US President Donald Trump

In a memoir that will be published later this month, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper revealed that former US President Donald Trump wanted police to shoot protestors around the White House demonstrating the death of George Floyd.

According to Axios, Trump allegedly told Esper in June 2020: "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"

Esper wrote in his book "A Sacred Oath