Trump wanted to launch missiles at Mexico

Mark Esper, who was Donald Trump’s defense secretary, revealed that on one occasion, the then president of the United States, suggested launching missiles at Mexico to eliminate drug laboratories.
The suggestion was made in 2020 and, in addition, he told him that this action could remain a secret, according to Esper in his memoir A Sacred Oath.

NEW: Mark Esper recounts Trump asking the stunned SecDef if the government could fire missiles into Mexico and then pretend it wasn’t the US who did it in his new memoir https://t.co/eINzwh4gI4

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 5, 2022
According to Esper’s statements, Trump told him “they are not in control of their own country” and that they could simply drop some “Patriot missiles” and then deny the attack.
Esper’s book will be published next Tuesday, May 10, and his texts were subjected to a verification process by the Pentagon to detect that there is no classified information, The New York Times reported.

According to the newspaper, Esper exposes the most controversial episodes he lived with Trump during the time he was under his command and described him as an unprincipled person.
“He is an unprincipled person who, given his self-interest, should not be in the public service position.”
Although Esper thought about resigning several times, in the end he decided to stay in office to prevent Trump from putting a person of all his confidence who did fulfill his ideas.
The former defense secretary says that another moment he had to listen to was when Trump suggested if it was not possible to “just shoot them,” referring to the people who took to the streets to protest the murder, at the hands of the police, of George Floyd.
In November 2020, after the election in which Trump lost to Joe Biden, the tycoon made one of the most surprising and unexpected decisions in the political history of the United States: he fired the head of the Pentagon, Mark Esper.
 
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