Mark Esper's Loyalty To The Constitution Got Him Fired From The T**** Administration
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2022
- Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper joins Stephen for a two-part conversation about his time in the T*** administration, from which he was fired, which he writes about in his new book, "A Sacred Oath." Stick around for more from Secretary Esper. #Colbert #MarkEsper #ASacredOath
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He waited till his book was out before he brought trump’s action to the public. Like Bolton, Barr, and the rest, he kept this to himself rather then tell the American people. I don’t think he is a hero. Lt. Col. Vidman is a hero.
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Exactly! He did not speak up when it mattered most. He waited to get paid to talk.
@@swood2603 @Matt Ford you guys honestly are idiots that just spurt trash & lies. He literally published an essay online talking exactly about this during peak of Trump's admin. "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Part_of_the_Resistance_Inside_the_Trump_Administration"
Mary wins the internet for bringing up Lt. Col. Vindman.
It is people like him that are the true heroes and the ones that deserve to be on talk shows.
Not carpet-bagging cowards like Esper.
Well said, Mary.
exactly when the moment came vindman laid it on the line when it mattered and the frump admin tried to ruin his career
he paid the price for telling the truth when it needed to be said these guys are just like the grifter they worked for hustle off the chaos - also every mil person knows when u buck up the chain of command no matter how right u are it's pretty much a career killer
just saying for a friend
Sacred Oaths require action AT THE TIME.
thank you. yes!
Seriously was NEVER gonna HAPPEN. Was Esper going to do a CEASAR?
@@mikewhite4560 esper might have LASTED HOURS less than 24..
@C C but being an adult is all about taking responsibility for your actions and your failures to take action. adulthood is about living up to your word and honoring your commitments and obligations. sitting on your hands because you don't want to face the problem or you don't want to be the one to deal with it is childish behavior. it's childish to refuse to take action when faced with a problem.
your argument doesn't pass the sniff test.
Esper was loyal to Trump, not the Constitution when it MATTERED! Stop giving him a platform to rewrite his role. He's a coward.
Exactly! He did not speak up when it mattered most. He waited to get paid to talk.
@@swood2603 you guys honestly are idiots that just spurt trash & lies. He literally published an essay online talking exactly about this during peak of Trump's admin. "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Part_of_the_Resistance_Inside_the_Trump_Administration"
Ha I just wrote the same comment without reading this first. You said it better than me tho. He’s a coward
Sacred Oaf.
Stephen doesn't care he's a shill like the rest of the corporate tentacles that happen to bore their way into a young demographic's attention.
I love what James Earl Jones said in clear and present danger. "You took an oath, if you remember. And I'm not talking about the director of the C.I.A., I'm talking about his boss and I'm not talking about the president of the United States, I'm talking about his boss. I'm talking about the people of the United States.
Too bad these profiles in courage only occur in fiction....
I am so upset and sad that all these people saved all this information on the 45th president for book sales! It sure would have been nice to know this information before now. It's disgusting.
10 years ago I would have never thought that we would be having these kinds of conversations here in America. Now I realize our country is even nuttier than I thought.
scary... frightening...
I'm from Europe and not in my dearest dreams I would've thought this clown as a president.
America is dead. The reTrumpliQans killed it.
we've always been insane
@@cmdraftbrn Not as insane as we are now. We had a childish bully narcissist grifter as potus for 4 years and the stench of tdump has taken over the GOP. Plus those reTrumpliQans won’t hold tdump responsible for his crimes.
Nope. Can't do it. Turned off the TV as soon as I saw him. Didn't watch this clip. Tired of people who witnessed wildly dangerous things happening and said absolutely nothing while hoping to accumulate enough material for a book. Can we all agree to stop enriching these grifters?
Same. Just another grifter trying to portray themselves as the "lone voice of reason".
People need to stop giving them attention- especially on left-leaning shows, in my opinion. It just legitimizes these dolts and allows people to forget just how much damage they have caused.
As much as I agree with you I can also see the reason for not speaking up. Speak up, get fired, get replaced with a yes man, no longer be able to prevent trump from doing whatever insane idea pops (Or in some cases shoved) into his tiny mind
@@mrummgoat53 I think youre both right and wrong. He shouldn't have talked when he had the job to prevent being replaced and having a worse situation emerge; however that shouldn't have stopped him from immediately revealing everything the moment he was not in that position anymore. Nothing forced him to put it in a book instead.
It's tough for people like me without power to understand but I'm gonna try. Esper has the military under his helm. It is his responsibility to make sure it serves the United States. It is tough to do so under a crazy boss, since there is no good time to quit and run from your responsibility. They don't give great power to men / women who quit early. But I do believe Esper that Trump would manage to find a worse replacement.
Esper's just doing what all heroes do; he waits until after the building burns down before sounding the alarm, and coming to the rescue.
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yousa !
You mean cowards?
and what of all the damsels?
And puts on a fireman's hat, smears a little ash on his face and tries to play hero
Funny how these clowns only find the courage to speak up when they got a book to sell. 🤔🙄
I'm no fan of these men, but come on, he did speak up while in power under Trump. At a press conference, he did say he didn't support the insurrection act. We are lucky this time, the military didn't go along. But Trump 2.0 would have zero men like him. And future copycat will be even worse than Trump. The institution is only as good as the people who run it. Someday, it will all break. Even now, the crack is visible. It took a lot of gut and conviction to stand up to your boss and got fired for it. I'm not going to fault men like him for being late to do the right things because when is it a good time to quit the crazy train and let it run off the track?
Indeed ! Integrity must not be a retrospective thing …
I am happy he stayed.It was him and others that kept America from the brink.I am also glad he is speaking out.People need to know how close they came to absolute oblivion and just how horrid the minds of the Republican party is.
@@lataraevans6342 agree.
Going by the body language, I think Stephen might have the same opinion.
Even as a non-American, I know very well that at key moments in his tenure he did not raise his voice publicly and continued to support his boss. Sadly we seem to need such unsympathetic insiders to get important information from behind the scenes. Hopefully he makes at least a few GOP voters doubt their party. My consolation: He can write as many memoirs as he wants, history will not remember him as a hero.
He had the choice to be loyal to America or to 45, he picked America.
@@HashknightGaming It's an odd kind of loyalty to America not to warn the public the day after you've been fired by a dangerous despot, but instead to unhurriedly write a book about how great a job you did. But what do I know...
@@gammelgarten Better late then never and as you can see he and others did act at the time and in regards to writing a book well everyone wants to get paid anyone who says no is lying to themselves.
@@HashknightGaming nope. Not good enough. This mf here is a West Point grad and he knew better. He CHOSE and he chose WRONG.
Too much happened to take this much #!&$!% time!
Stephen, I hope you press him more...
@@HashknightGaming A few chose differently. Alexander Vindman, for one.
He is using the court of public opinion to cement himself as some sort of hero.
When he put the country in severe danger and now wants to make money from you.
Once a Republican always a Republican.
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Our government betrayed us when our grandparents were young.
Pretty much, yeah. Some action while in the position of power would have been much more appreciated than a book tour afterwards.
@@jounik top ttyl
Aussie, better the devil you know... Esper could've been replaced with Mike lindell or kk kid Stephen Miller, for all we know.
He just wrote a book. There was another guy with orange hair who wanted to cement himself as hero.
Apatow hit it on the head later on in the show. If guys like Mark Esper were really looking out for the little guy, they wouldn't have waited a year to blow the whistle when their book came out.
Money, money, money.
Totally agree.
Esper is a total swamp creature.
If he was really loyal to the constitution he would have pushed use of the 25th amendment when the potus wanted to do all this horrible shit. Or at VERY LEAST reported it so people would have known beforehand. He's just grifting.
As a sec. of defense its not that easy. He wasnt the only one that cabinet needed to inact 25th amendment. If Secretary of Defense openly supported the call of 25th amendment by himself, it can be seen as a military coup as well since hes 2nd in command of our military. Which can be begin a slippery slope to our country becoming something like magmar in the future. Other secretarys would have to be supportive of the 25th amendment before he could essentially. But I understand the frustration though st that time
@@Adrian13rams LOL! Magmar. However, don't forget what Esper said, "He (Drumpf) rarely ever gave an order." So, Trump was just bloviating craziness which makes it unactionable. Let's javalin the drug labs. Can I start a war with Iraq? Big beautiful wall, it's finished! Are you gonna eat the rest of that?
Far easier said than done.
25th Amendment for what, having bad ideas because Trump is an idiot? Fortunately, being an idiot isn't a crime. Trump should not have been elected as POTUS, but he did not do anything that warranted the use of the 25th Amendment, real life isn't the TV show 24.
After Trump was elected, I have never seen a more politically active and engaged America. That's a caveat that I perceive as a positive. Let's hope we strive forward to elect better officials for both parties rather than social media darlings.
@@JaesWasTaken eh nah, it was because he incited a coup against our federal govt just because he lost the last election. Trump was an idiot, but I think there was realistic reasoning to start talking about 25th amendment 🤷♀️ if inciting a coup against our govt isnt enough reason, what is?
He's just selling a book. He's as dirty as they all are.
I agree....Bolton was the same
A Republican is a Republican. Money 'trumps' everything and everybody. 🤑🤯
This guy was one of the people in charge during the George Floyd protests and the lafayette square crackdown in DC. This was Mr. "You gotta dominate the battlespace" when talking about dealing with fellow americans. Now he's getting painted as a hero and applauded by the crowd? For shame Stephen, for shame.
Edit: typo
Exactly. I’m very disappointed in him.
I couldn't agree more.
Think of it as drawing out useful information in an election year. 🤔
I dunno. I think Stephen was polite but cool with him and prodded him when needed. It’s good to have these dirtbags on non-rightwing media platforms. But yeah. Esper is a shameless turd, shilling his book.
@@cc1k435 Which isn't going to amount to dick.
so brave of him to speak out when trump was in office. oh wait :(
There are probably ntl security issues. They may not even be allowed to say things during the presidents term.
@Rhonda Busbyhim making a difference vs doing the right thing. he's nothing but a coward.
Stephen, you are overlooking that Michael Flynn and Mark Pompeo were also both West Point graduates. They both helped with the coup attempt. They need to face justice.
I respect that it's Stephen's show, and he can bring on whoever the hell he wants as a guest, but I'm honestly a little disappointed he went ahead with this one. Esper sat on this information for the longest, and now he wants to put a dollar sign on it after the fact. If you ask me, he's in the same dumpster as Bill Barr and the other book-peddlers: a bunch of self-serving bastards.
Agreed but at least Esper was not a traitor.
The right time was def before the election. Like he has a point. We committed an act of war on Iran, abandoned allies etc, but someone being this dangerous was something the voters get to decide on
Maybe after this he gets a caricature sketch with Bolton. He's not nearly so colorful, but a 45 administration survivor just the same.
@@TR-mg1eq Low bar to clear, quite frankly. You usually _expect_ your elected officials not to betray your nation. It's like commending a driver for not crashing into a Wendy's.
So Esper should have gone to.....Nancy Pelosi?
Waiting to tell the truth for a book to be published is wrong!
“My oath is to the Constitution, not to one man!”🤢 I had to hold back bile when they cheered for him. & I saw that Stephen felt the same way. How short are those people’s memories?!?🤯🤦🏻♀️
@Rhonda Busby Vindman & Yovanovitch weren’t Cabinet Secretaries, nominated by Tramp himself, & they weren’t well known on conservative media, & they weren’t famously devout Tramp supporters, but Sec Esper was all of those things. So if he had gone public with these horror stories that he’s written about in his book, & if he had condemned Tramp’s insane behavior as clearly & resoundingly as he does in this interview, it would have made a difference. But only if he did it as a sitting Sec of Def, or immediately as he was walking out the door.
@Rhonda Busby you’ve got to remember how it was during that time though. If the information was coming from a journalist, no matter how credible they are, no matter how stellar their reputation for being absolutely nonpartisan, no matter how well-sourced their story was, it didn’t even matter if there were recordings of the horrible things he said & did, Tramp & his followers called it fake and ignored it. So even though some (but it really wasn’t “most” at that time. It wasn’t until after Biden was sworn in & Bolton’s book hit the shelves that we learned about a lot of it. But even so, there’s a bunch of new horror in this book) of these recollections had been reported on, it hadn’t been coming from a sitting Secretary of Defense who was very popular with the MAGA crowd, and who was a big MAGA guy, himself. He was also getting regular airtime on Fox “News,” so he could’ve spoken directly to the MAGA crowd, on the channel that they actually watch and that they believe, and told them all about his terrifying experiences with our potus. He had credibility with them. And he decided that him being able to keep his job was more important than informing the American people about the things he witnessed when he had a duty to do so. Tramp wasn’t just enacting crappy policy or something like that. He wasn’t acting like a president at all. He was betraying all of us, and he was betraying America! Esper had a duty to inform, at the very least, the Congress, particularly when they were impeaching potus! And the American people had a right to know about all of it before we voted in 2020. Maybe we would’ve had that repudiation of Tramp and his hate and ignorance and incompetence that many of us were hoping for if those 74 million had been told about all of those things by the sitting Secretary of Defense, and so they could have based their decision on a little more information.
Maybe he should have brought this out immediately instead of sitting on it for a book deal. We wouldn't be in this situation. This man is NOT A hero.
If he'd gone, and a real toadie took his place, the coup might have succeeded.
You missed an important opportunity to ask Esper if he believed T***p should have been fully impeached out of office. I hope the next late show host asks that.
I'm sooooooo disappointed that Colbert is actually shilling for this cowardly Trump toad, especially after the monologue he gave us on the night of Jan 6.
Whose side are you on, Stephen??!!!!
Anything for a buck.
What a twitchy character. He acts like a kid who was in the middle of things now snitching to make himself look better, trying to distance himself from his own culpability.
It's not altogether surprising, bearing in mind the embedded reflexes of 21 years of disciplined obedience to commanding officers. To defy the United States Commander-in-Chief would seem unthinkable. The contrasting courage of Col. Alexander Vindman was exceptional; but - as an armchair critic, comfortably far from the madding crowd, I give Esper some credit for getting fired.
I think Esper may be half right in his decision to stay, because let’s not forget, Trump tried to replace the acting head of the DOJ with his loyalist in the aftermath of the election.
replacing everyone with loyalists doesnt protect you from removal from office. not in this form of government
@@BrickTamlandOfficial it may help though. Obviously rump thought so.
Staying in the job for some high feluting reason ('a sacred oath' ... ffs) is the cowardly way out. By staying in and working on your book that will make you some hard needed cash. Pathetic. Resigning because of what you witnessed, and telling the American people about it, before the elections, and at the second impeachment, would have been the acts of a man with integrity.
@@freekfaro5606 Yep that would be the right thing to do.
oh, so his decision to say nothing helped in the resulting insurrection but he was right? Oh I'd hate to see what would have happened if he actually did or said something
I would have started hissing at the mention of “circuit breaker” and would not have stopped until I got kicked out
😂👍🏻
"My Oath is to the Constitution, not to him." ... "Is there a class they teach at West Point ... to protect the country FROM the Commander in Chief?" Yes, There should be a class here forward. Let the unconstitutional behavior of stacking the government primarily for personal loyalty be called "Trumping"!
To bad everything the left does is unconstitutional. But nice try
When you join the military, part of the oath is do not obey any illegal order. That cover most of Trump.
Sorry, but hombre came up post-Viet Nam. If they spent time and money on training us enlisted folk not to obey illegal orders, he knew. Hell, mf was West Point, top of the food chain, weapons- grade trained to deal with
bullies. He should have done better.
mf oughta do better right f'n NOW
Good god man! I don't want anything named after that pig. I hope in the future the only place my great-grandchildren will know of him is in a dusty, stinkin' history book in a basement somewhere.
False exaggerated story telling by a clown selling a book - career suicide
Bravo to you sir, bravo!!!!
Mark Esper is a breath of fresh air. I'm so glad there are people like that in positions of power. Hope we can keep it that way! Go vote every time you can! Democracy in this country depends on your vote.
Why give publicity to some one who let down his country.
The time to speak up was when this could save lives. I imagine this person didn’t as they were afraid for their own skin.
Excerpt: - Bob Woodward - FEAR
Former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn saw a draft letter he considered dangerous to national security on the Oval Office desk.
The letter would have withdrawn the US from a critical trade agreement with South Korea. Trump’s aides feared the fallout could jeopardize a top-secret national security program: the ability to detect a North Korean missile launch within just seven seconds.
Cohn was “appalled” that Trump might sign the letter. “I stole it off his desk,” Cohn told an associate. “I wouldn’t let him see it. He’s never going to see that document. Got to protect the country.”
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad..
Thanks for sharing!
And you're all still going to let Trump be re-elected.
Why?
The us military can nuke north korea into the ground whenever they want. So this stupid nonsense of national security from north korea is laughable
@@Marijuanifornia I have a theory. There is so much evidence against Drumpf, but to protect presidential legacy (the Presidents Club), they (dems and repubs) told him, "to go ahead a have your fun, but you're not going to hold another government office, ever. If you were to try for office, the criminal indictments will be coming your way."
It's just a theory.
like hiding the car keys from grandpa
A Thomas Becket reference! Somehow I can't see T**** emulating Henry II and accepting guilt for his careless words.
Thanks for labelling this as intro and part 2. I have a gift for clicking on part two or three of interview clips 😂😭 Great interview, thanks Late Show team
Reading the book right now… Very interesting, and a great look into the budgetary decision-making process within the DoD. This man is a West Point graduate and a veteran of the 101st Airborne like me, so he’s got my respect. And he stood up to Trump in order to protect our Constitution!
thank you for your service Sir.
It doesn't take courage to to sit back and watch democracy be destroyed and only speak out after the damage is done.
He's a coward - stop trying to assign an iota of integrity to this toad - he has none. If he truly "served" his country he'd have spoke up when it MATTERED, not long after and only then for a book deal! It's all about $$$$$$!!!
A Sacred Oath, A Higher Loyalty, another book from an apologist who helped ruin the world trying to sound self-ritcheous.
Thanks Sec. Esper!!
Esper took way too long to sound any alarms, then dares to try and say he isn't a coward. Such a disgrace to this country.
like i said we need an I.Q. Test for anyone running for president
The former President was not foolish. He got the country to make him President after all. He was wicked. There is test for that. But US voters supported him.
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Don’t be complacent! We cannot let them get control! We cannot go back! Let’s ditch Mitch and minions for all they stand for/on! Let’s vote 🗳 those f@ckers out! It’s not about what we didn’t get, it’s about what will be TAKEN!
WE NEED TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM GQP CORRUPTION, TRUMPS FASCISM, AND FOX news WITH ALL THE BS THEY SPEW WE NEED TO DO IT NOW
Who could esper talk to who would do anything. Looking today, how many of "our leaders" actually had the courage to stand up to their oaths?
That's why we are where we are.
I don't necessarily doubt what he's saying. But if this stuff is happening you speak up when it matters. He's smart enough to know that the GOP base will not believe him so this can't be about preventing a future Trump presidency. This matters when he's in office, not after.
Nonetheless, I believe one reason he's speaking out is so we don't face a rump Act 2.
@@Amick44 In that case, Mr Esper should be *screaming* these truths from every window!!!
What mattered, when Trump was in office, was tamping down that madman's worst impulses. What matters now, is warning us, so we don't repeat the same mistake.
It boils down to, selling books for Esper. Not so much about the constitution.
"I'll honor my oath after my book is published"...
I took, I believe, the same oath when I enlisted in the military and I considered that often, because I had taken it. I knew what it said and what it meant. At one point in my time in the military I carried a loaded weapon and not in a war zone. I asked exactly what the order was about using the weapon because I did not want to assume that I knew what was/is required. I was given the order that if I felt that the gun needed to be pointed at someone that my order was to shoot to kill. I asked the question because my situation warranted absolutely knowing the answer. You were in a number of years and you never questioned your oath? I wonder how many people take that oath and have no further thought about what that means. Do you wait until faced with a situation that gives you no time to think or ask about that oath? That seems to be rather dangerous when you have to make life and death decisions. It seems to me that if you take so little notice of that possibility of having to make life and death decisions, while in the military, that you don't consider it for years that maybe there is a problem, either with the oath or with the person taking it.
"I was the circuit breaker" but he chose not to break the whole circuit, he kept secrets.
Being loyal to the constitution does not include holding onto information until it can help you financially. He should have just wiped Donnie's chin with his oath to the constitution.
I don't think CBS should have given him a free platform to promote a "tell all book". There must be a dozen books out there now already. Why didn't he bring this stuff up when he was in the position?
Because he would have been fired, and replaced with someone who didn't curb Trump's worst impulses.
Anyone who served in that man's administration does not deserve a platform and this book should be ignored. Let's hope he does Meghan McCain's book sales and no more!
A bit late Mr. Esper, but deeply greatful for your service and loyalty to the Constitution. We literally had an insane foreign dictator for four years.
He gets no props now!
Foreign?
I really think it's time that government employees lose their titles when they lose their jobs! They're not royalty!!
Jen Psaki isn't going to be referred to as Press Secretary Jen Psaki the rest of her life!! Why shouldn't all government officials lose their titles when their job ends?
I know, right?! It's like the days of the Soviet Union - you don't have a job for life!
@@lenawagenfuehr53,not only the days of the Soviet … Russia has the same ,tradition‘,with the tiny difference… Putin fires whom he doesn’t like. Sounds familiar??
Understand that this is why UA-cam got rid of the dislike button, because they knew crap like this has way more disapproval than approval 😒
If he was a real patriot, he'd have gotten that book deal right away. Why did he wait so long?
Esper: proud circuit-breaker fired for insufficient loyalty
How difficult a job SecDef is without the additional stress of keeping an insane gameshow host from committing atrocities on his own people.
His book should be titled Secrets I Kept to Cash in Later.
Can’t trust a word that comes out his sneaky mouth…Stephen knows it too
But that didn't stop him from giving the coward a platform, now, did it???!!!! Elitists stick together at the end of the day. Always.
Colbert just gave democracy the middle finger to shill for this POS.
Apparently Colbert's integrity can be sold for the right price. He's no different than they are.
His message is okay but his timing is highly suspect!
@@janetstonerook4552,nobody would have believed him right after he was fired. Everyone of the Republicans would have said and blamed him that he was doing it for revenge.
If this man was so loyal to the Constitution, he would have spoken out against Trump a loooong time ago, not now thar he's trying to sell his book.
THANK YOU!
He's a coward and waited to cash in with a book instead of when the information might have been useful. Why are we funding these awful people?
I could have told Esper what to expect of Dump if he became President when he announced he was running in 2015. How could Esper be surprised by what he experienced?
In business, it's not about who has the biggest ego. It's about who has the biggest heart.
This is satire and as such very funny, but it is also deeply troubling that a mob boss could have been allowed to rise to that position. And he might again, if enough people stay home.
Trump - or one of his cultist spawn - is set for another Presidency. The legal system is riddled with corruption and inefficiency, and 'free and fair elections' are a myth. Red states are currently gearing up for total authoritarianism, while the left is hamstrung by its rules of decency and fair play. Democracy is flying on a wing-and-a-prayer, and it's out of gas.
Dems are going to get a shellacking 🙂
Vote BLUE!
It is VERY Important to vote BLUE in all of this year's elections. This year matters a TON on whether or not your blue vote counts for the presidential race. The MAGA party is trying to put in whackos in positions in states that have control of the vote count. The Secretary of State! So yes get out and vote blue THIS YEAR!
TRUMP 2024, WE DONT WANT THE INFLATION KING AND HIS EXTREMISTS IN THE WHITEHOUSE ANYMORE.
LMAO wow the crowd did not clap for him that's the loudest I've ever heard the band on an introduction of a guest LMAO
So tired of these redemption tours just to sell books.
It's all to sell a book. He had nothing to say prior to having a chance to make money off it.
OH STOP WITH THIS $$$$ GRAB STUFF HE DID WHAT HE COULD TO SLOW THE CRAZED ORANGE THING
Thank you esper for staying.
Perhaps there needs to be a class on explaining EXACTLY what the constitution is and the importance of it. It seems quite clear that so many people are taking it and have no idea what they are Swearing to! Even less honor the commitment to protecting it!
There was. It was called Civics
They stopped teaching it for this very reason
I dont know, this guy waits till now to reveal all these things and sell his book. Where was he when the country really needed him to do this?
I won't be giving this choad a single cent of my money.
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What a profile in courage /s
Why am I skeptical of all these Republicans who willingly served in the Trump administration, and then after the fact, have gone on the talk show circuit after signing lucrative book deals?
Because you'd never consider staying in an uncomfortable position, in order to prevent the worst from happening.
Why do these guys wait until they are no longer in a position to bring about real change? Instead of waiting for the sanctuary of retirement and relatively powerless.
F esper
It could have been crazier in 202 if the Secretary of Defence was not Mr. Esper.
wow.. such critical information that would be so helpful 2 years ago....
Please stop giving these traitors air time, Stephen.
that SMELL Won't Wash OFF You,...EVER.... ESPER !
a "circuit breaker" 😂
I just watched one of Stephen’s videos that involved Esper…. I didn’t need to waste my time watching all three of the videos because I will hear what was in his book from news on MSNBC and Twitter…
It seems Stephen would know that parts of Ester’s book would be out in the news… So why’s he helping promote it??
Anyhow, it’s good to have Stephen back.
Don’t buy Esper’s book.
If Esper thought these were big enough problems, why did he wait until he had a book to write? Don't support any of these leeches who put book deals over insanity
When Esper walked out, they should’ve had Septa Unella from Game of Thrones ringing a bell and yelling *SHAME 🔔 SHAME 🔔 SHAME* 🔔
Can we ask why he and everyone in Rumps circle waited to get a book deal to tell the American people how unfit this man was to be president!
when one snake oil scheme's wheels fall off u load up more bs and hit the road
Dumpty Trumpty the worst thing that ever happened to this great Country, too bad he can't just go quietly away so we don't have to see him or hear him again.
If he was quiet, everyone would wonder what he was plotting. Trump lives in Americans' minds rent-free.
Well that's a major positive in having Esper and other former people in the administration on shows and hearing their side. So citizens can realize what a carnival this administration and presidency was. And would be again.
I am glad I still live in a country in which high-government officials stand for more than serving The Leader and are even permitted to expose the madness of such a leader.
Hu?
I'm glad Esper was in talks with Gen. Milley. I wish he had more control over Chad Wolf's horrendous, criminal handling of the summer 2020 crimes committed against against journalists and citizens protesting.
Oh goosh, this person was being silent to help the former President get elected. This is all spin aimed to make him money. He let down your country at its time of need. And would do the same again.
I'm almost sure that he was.
"he rarely gave orders"
Pssst.. He might come back.. Don't give him advice!
I think he does that, so he can't be held accountable when it turn out bad. He hopes others pick up on his hints and act on their own so he doesn't have to take responsability. That's why nothing ever sticks to him.
6:02 - 6:30 sounds about right smh
6:00 - 6:47 💙👏🏾✊🏾🇺🇸🙏🏾
Thank you, Mister Esper, for not making these revelations public when it might have actually helped the country, and instead kept to the American tradition of profiting off you information. 😒😡
Disgusting. I'm profoundly disappointed that Stephen would give this cowardly toadie a platform to profit off of his cowardice. Shame on you, Stephen!
Why are they clapping for him doing his job?
It's only after the fact that these guys come out with exactly what happened... and it's usually in book and talk show form.
But at least they did it and still do it! Everyone who is blaming them not to react earlier are typical American ,super heroes‘.
They all know so well what needed to be done! Funny that they never got into a job like Esper did.
@@dorotheevonwerder4303 funny how you assumed I'm American 😂
@@scoliva,with that name you either actually have or just made it up you can hardly expect me assuming something different .Maybe from GB or Australia. But when I read your last sentence again I’m having my doubts now ;)
With my name it’s pretty obvious :)
Thank you, for giving more life to a TRAITOR.
His sacred oath was to protect the constitution, not to make a book deal.
Did you listen to the entire interview. By steering Trump away from Miller's crazy talk, he was protecting the Constitution. The last thing he said about 8 weeks of all Trump loyalists was "imagine 8 MONTHS on Trump's loyalists in charge." I'll add Imagine 4 more years of Trump and his loyalists unchecked without people like Esper keeping him in check.
He still admits to being a Republican. So he slightly put the Constitution ahead of party. In contrast:
"Justice and the Rule of Law are to be ABOVE politics." -- John Adams.
He didn't vote for Biden, did he? Very convenient now, write a book, join the lecture circuit, get on TV. Well, at least he's not a traitor....
No, he stated in his 60 minutes interview that he didn't vote for Biden or Trump.
@@ashleighzee1611 - exactly.. He is so ridiculous, he couldn't vote for a sane Democrat.
'I couldn't inform the public right away because I wouldn't make as much money on my book'. This man is no hero; he is a traitor. So is Bob Woodward.
Stop helping this guy sell more books!! He should be charged with treason like the rest.
Another reputation rehabilitation tour or a grifter cashing in on their job afterwards.
Amazing how many kept quiet at the time, are writing books and going on television proclaiming their supposed good deeds.