Donald Trump boasts he “had to run the military myself” while slamming ex-Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Trump railed against “Yesper” and “the Fake News media.” The former president insisted it was “a complete lie” that he had asked why they couldn’t “” Black Lives Matter protesters in the legs in 2020, as Esper has alleged, saying that “10 witnesses” could back him up.
“Mark Esper was weak and totally ineffective,” Trump continued, “and because of it, I had to run the military. I took out ISIS, Qasem Soleimani, [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi, rebuilt the military with $2.5 trillion, created Space Force, and so much more.” The investigative program also asked Trump about Esper’s claim that, in office, the then-president had asked his then-defense secretary if they could
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