May 5, 2022, 07:07pm.
According to the New York Times, Defense Secretary Mark Esper claims in his upcoming memoir that Donald Trump asked him to launch a missile strike on Mexico to destroy the drug labs.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper were in the James Brady Press Briefing Room.
At least twice, Trump asked about shooting missiles into Mexico, which are surface-to-air weapons.
As the 2020 presidential election approached, he was concerned that Trump might use the military to intervene in his favor, and warned others in the Department of Defense to look out for unusual orders from the White House.
Three days after the book was published, there are new revelations, including claims that Trump wanted to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters in the legs.
A representative for Trump didn't respond to the request for comment.
Prior to his confirmation as defense secretary, he was the secretary of the Army, a position he took after serving as vice president for government relations for a military contractor. The U.S.'s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was set in motion by the defense secretary. Though initially criticized for being overly compliant, the relationship between Trump and Esper began to break down in 2020. In his first public disagreement with Trump, Esper joined Attorney General William Barr and Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley in opposing Trump's demand that 10,000 troops be deployed to subdue demonstrators protesting police violence. The proposal to send up to 250,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border was shot down by the commander in chief after he banned the display of Confederate flags at military bases. In November 2020, two days after Trump lost reelection to Joe Biden, Trump replaced him with Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
According to the New York Times, Trump is an unprincipled person who should not be in public service.
In conversations with national security leaders, Trump suggested that nuclear bombs be used to prevent hurricanes, according to unnamed sources. The storms in order to stop them from making landfall in the U.S. was brushed off by officials.
A New York judge fined Trump $10,000 a day for contempt.
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