Mark Esper writes in new memoir of how worried he was that Trump would try to use US military to hold on to power
was not going to get involved in the election, no matter who directed it. I would intercede.”
Esper says he also asked Hokanson “to figure out a discreet way to get this last part out, which he said he would”. Milley, he writes, told him he and the other joint chiefs would “resign if pressed to break their oath” and involve the military in the election. Esper says he did not want to allow the generals “to be put in such a compromising position, especially if a presidential order was legal but grossly wrong or inappropriate.
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