Top brass ruins Trump's plan to utilize 'tanks' against the protesters

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper said reporters that Wednesday he was against to invoking the 1807 Rebellion Act to send the US military to force control of cities – even as the president talked intense on Twitter and ordered an infantry battalion to Washington, DC. 

It was an statement that found the White House off guard at a time President Trump is displaying his most extreme position – and could place Esper's job in danger. 

Esper made the open statement of opposition to the thought after the White House freely coasted it on Monday – and after the administration accepted all penalties for the utilization of tear gas and rubber bullets to clear the protesters out of Lafayette Park not long before Esper joined President Donald Trump at a photograph operation. 

Only hours after he talked at the Pentagon, Defense officials said a portion of the well-trained military soldiers flown into the Washington district to manage common agitation were being sent home.