Trump wanted to deploy 10,000 troops in Washington DC, official says

US President Donald Trump told his advisors at one point this past week he wanted 10,000 troops deployed to the Washington DC area to halt civil unrest over the killing of a black man by Minneapolis police, according to a senior US official.

The account of Trump's demand during a heated Oval Office conversation on Monday shows how close the president may have come to fulfilling his threat to deploy active-duty troops in US cities, despite opposition from Pentagon leadership.