
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).

Fauci desperately opposed it, saying that if he did so, many people would die.

Even the Republican Party came out in opposition and blocked it.

I was blocked once because I failed to be re-elected.

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.)

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.

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.