Donald Trump's own defence secretary said yesterday that he was against deploying active duty troops to counter protesters, just days after the US president suggested deployment. Mark Esper, the head of the Pentagon, said he opposed using the Insurrection Act, a two-centuries-old law that allows a president to put soldiers on US streets...
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