Donald Trump wanted to bomb drug labs in Mexico
Donald Trump asked, in 2020, his former Minister of Defense if it was possible to bomb the laboratories of drug traffickers in Mexico.
Former President Donald Trump in Orlando, Florida on February 26, 2022.
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Donald Trump inquired in 2020 regarding the possibility of bombing drug trafficking laboratories in Mexico with his Minister of Defense, reports the latter, Mark Esper, in a book which will be published on May 10.
According to excerpts from the book quoted by the “New York Times”, the American president believed at the time that the United States might claim not to be behind such a missile strike on Mexican soil, says Mark Esper, who was Donald Trump’s defense minister between July 2019 and November 2020.
“Shoot Missiles”
The former White House tenant reportedly asked twice if the armed forces might “fire missiles at Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” writes Mark Esper in his memoir, “A Sacred Oath.” sacred), claiming that Donald Trump’s statements had left him speechless.
Donald Trump had decided to dismiss Mark Esper in November 2020, a few days following the announcement of the results of the American presidential election. Relations between the fiery septuagenarian president and his minister had been strained since the head of the Pentagon had publicly opposed a few months earlier the deployment of the army to suppress anti-racist demonstrations in the country.
In other excerpts from his memoirs, Mark Esper writes that on the sidelines of these demonstrations in June 2020, the president, very irritated, would have launched in the Oval Office: “You can’t just shoot them? Shoot them in the legs or something.”
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