sending hundreds and thousands of troops to the u.s. mexico border. who suggested that we send a quarter million u.s. troops to the border? stephen miller, we are in a meeting waiting for the present come out, or standing around the desk and he s behind me and this voice just starts talking about caravans are coming, we need to get troops to the border, we need a quarter million troops, and i think he s joking. and then i turn around and i look at him and he s dead pan eyes, it s clear that he s not joking. according to another report from the time on the buck, miller also proposed at the military secure the head of the dead isis leader, who had just been killed by u.s. forces. and then he went on to recommend keeping it in pigs blood and berating it around to warn other terrorists. that would be a war crime mr. esper shot back. esper is clearly eager to paint himself as a maverick and this