Floyd, Trump wanted 10,000 soldiers

(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, JUN 6 - Donald Trump wanted the deployment of 10,000 soldiers on the streets of Washington and other American cities to put out protests. The US president allegedly made the request at a meeting at the White House on Monday, but this would have been rejected by the defense secretary, Mark Esper, and the chief of staff of the American military, Mark Milley. Several US media reports, citing Pentagon sources.
    Esper eventually made available some 1,600 soldiers in the Washington region ready to support the 5,000 men of the National Watch. But on Thursday evening those 1,600 were called. Milley, during a very tense confrontation with Trump, would therefore have contested the legality of an eventual decree by the president to mobilize the troops and would have made a series of calls to Congress to alert him to Trump's requests, including a phone call to speaker Pelosi and another to the leader of Democratic Senators Schumer.