Since they couldn’t be persuaded, they blocked Pompeo’s bid by telling him to run for a second term (by saying he would be elected naturally).
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Fauci desperately opposed it, saying that if he did so, many people would die.
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Even the Republican Party came out in opposition and blocked it.
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I was blocked once because I failed to be re-elected.
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At the time, current and former defense ministers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and retired generals even publicly issued statements opposing it.
(There was also a statement from a retired general telling the military to resist even if Trump gave such an order.)
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Secretary of Defense Esper at the time said he thought it was a joke.
When Trump seriously claimed that no one would know we were shooting, Secretary Esper desperately opposed it and blocked it.
In addition, he proposed bombing Venezuela and a maritime blockade of Cuba.
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The White House Chief of Staff at the time, Kelly, countered by saying that the world would know that we did it, so it failed.
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As an aside, these aides who persuaded Trump at the time wrote memoirs after Trump’s term was over.
If it weren’t for me, the world would have been destroyed. I guess I was a bit amazing? I looked back in the same way,
There is a rumor that Trump got so angry after reading that that he said that if he was re-elected, he would not listen to his aides and do whatever he wanted.