“NO ONE WOULD KNOW IT WAS US”: TRUMP THOUGHT HE COULD FIRE MISSILES INTO MEXICO AND BLAME IT ON ANOTHER COUNTRY
Something you probably picked up on over the last few years is that
Donald Trump has little to no grasp on reality. We know this because he thinks he invented the phrase “prime the pump”; that Ivanka created 14 millions of jobs; that health insurance costs $12 a year; that Greenland
is for sale; that the three best days of Queen Elizabeth’s life were the ones she spent with him; and that he could shoot missiles into another country and no one would find out.
Yes, The New York Times reports that in his forthcoming memoir, A Sacred Oath, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper recounts that in the summer of 2020, Trump asked, on at least two occasions, if the military could
“shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” saying, “They don’t have control of their own country.” Told all the various reasons this idea was a non-starter, the then president insisted that they could
do it “quietly,” adding: “no one would know it was us.” Apparently informed that yes, in fact, people would know it was the U.S., Trump responded that he would simply lie and say we didn’t do it. While this obviously sounds absolutely insane, Trump has actually floated similar
ideas in public. (In a speech to Republican donors in March, Trump
suggested that the U.S. should “put the Chinese flag” on its military planes, “bomb the shit” out of Russia, “and then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and [let them] start fighting with each other.”)
According to Esper, Trump became more emboldened after his first
impeachment acquittal. Around the same time he was suggesting to
secretly bomb Mexico and pass it off like he didn’t do it, Trump also wanted to put 10,000 active-duty troops on the streets of D.C. to police
the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. (It was these
protesters that, per Esper, Trump wanted to “just shoot.”) And in May of 2020, Trump apparently “behaved so erratically” during a meeting about China that the Joint Chiefs of Staff subsequently felt the need to
research the 25th Amendment, i.e. the mechanism by which the president
is removed from office by his cabinet. (A spokesman for Trump did not
respond to the Times’ request for comment.)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/donald-trump-mexico-missiles-mark-esper
“NO ONE WOULD KNOW IT WAS US”: TRUMP THOUGHT HE COULD FIRE MISSILES INTO MEXICO AND BLAME IT ON ANOTHER COUNTRYinterpretation will be Trump can do no wrong and would agree that Mexico
Something you probably picked up on over the last few years is that
Donald Trump has little to no grasp on reality. We know this because he thinks he invented the phrase “prime the pump”; that Ivanka created 14 millions of jobs; that health insurance costs $12 a year; that Greenland
is for sale; that the three best days of Queen Elizabeth’s life were the ones she spent with him; and that he could shoot missiles into another country and no one would find out.
Yes, The New York Times reports that in his forthcoming memoir, A Sacred Oath, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper recounts that in the summer of 2020, Trump asked, on at least two occasions, if the military could
“shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” saying, “They don’t have control of their own country.” Told all the various reasons this idea was a non-starter, the then president insisted that they could
do it “quietly,” adding: “no one would know it was us.” Apparently informed that yes, in fact, people would know it was the U.S., Trump responded that he would simply lie and say we didn’t do it. While this obviously sounds absolutely insane, Trump has actually floated similar
ideas in public. (In a speech to Republican donors in March, Trump
suggested that the U.S. should “put the Chinese flag” on its military planes, “bomb the shit” out of Russia, “and then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and [let them] start fighting with each other.”)
According to Esper, Trump became more emboldened after his first
impeachment acquittal. Around the same time he was suggesting to
secretly bomb Mexico and pass it off like he didn’t do it, Trump also wanted to put 10,000 active-duty troops on the streets of D.C. to police
the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. (It was these
protesters that, per Esper, Trump wanted to “just shoot.”) And in May of 2020, Trump apparently “behaved so erratically” during a meeting about China that the Joint Chiefs of Staff subsequently felt the need to
research the 25th Amendment, i.e. the mechanism by which the president
is removed from office by his cabinet. (A spokesman for Trump did not
respond to the Times’ request for comment.)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/donald-trump-mexico-missiles-mark-esper
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