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June 7, 2020: Protests continue in the name of George Floyd throughout the United States , despite a curfew taking place in many cities like New York. Wherever the protests remain peaceful. In the Big Apple, a flood of protesters marched on the Manhattan Bridge. In the capital Washington, thousands of people are on the street, in the White House area, as well as in Los Angeles. Washington's mayor, Democrat Muriel Bowser, joined the protesters.Donald Trump, on the day when the whole of America marches against racism and violent police, breaks a silence that lasted hours and tweets 'Law and order!', Order and legality . A message launched from inside a White House that has never been so armored and besieged by tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators, who for hours protested also on the streets of the capital Washington.
" Much less crowds in Washington than expected ": so Donald Trump on Twitter, after thousands of people marched and demonstrated in the streets of the United States capital and in front of the White House for hours. The American president then thanked the National Guard, the Secret Service and the District of Columbia police for their "fantastic work". No word on the reasons and reasons for the protest.
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 in the White House on Monday, but this was said to be rejected by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and the chief of staff of the American armed forces, Mark Milley. Several US media reports, citing Pentagon sources.
Esper eventually made available some 1,600 troops in the Washington region ready to support, if necessary, the 5,000 men of the National Guard already mobilized. But on Thursday evening those 1,600 soldiers were called back.
General Milley, in the course of a very tense confrontation with Trump, would therefore have contested the legality of a possible Presidential decree to mobilize the troops and would have made a series of calls to Congress to warn about Trump's requests, including a phone call to the speaker Nancy Pelosi and another to the leader of the democratic senators Chuck Schumer.
Part of the republican party establishment is preparing not to vote for Donald Trump in the presidential election in November. According to the New York Times, the tycoon, as in 2016, will not have the vote of ex-president George W. Bush and senator and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Former House speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan have yet to decide, while Senator John McCain's widow Cindy will vote for Joe Biden. But even a group of leading party figures would be tempted today to vote for the former Democratic vice president.