- Then president also said of demonstrators: ‘Just shoot them’
- Gen Mark Milley resisted Trump’s calls for violent response
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Gen Mark Milley, the top US military leader, resisted Donald Trump’s demands that his forces “crack skulls” and “beat the fuck out” of protesters marching against police brutality and structural racism, according to a much-trailed new book.
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