{"id":1465750,"date":"2022-05-05T20:29:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465750"},"modified":"2022-05-05T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:29:53","slug":"trump-wanted-to-fire-missiles-into-mexico-to-destroy-drug-cartel-labs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-wanted-to-fire-missiles-into-mexico-to-destroy-drug-cartel-labs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wanted To Fire Missiles Into Mexico To Destroy Drug Cartel Labs: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-wanted-to-fire-missiles-into-mexico-to-destroy-drug-cartel-labs-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/DJT-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Then-President Donald Trump reportedly asked then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in 2020 about launching missiles into Mexico to destroy drug cartel labs, according to a new book.<\/p>\n<p>Esper claims in \u201cA Sacred Oath,\u201d which is expected to be released next week, that the idea from Trump came out of his frustration about the constant flow of drugs across the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reportedly asked Esper at least twice if the U.S. military could \u201cshoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,\u201d noting that the Mexican government did not \u201chave control of their own country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Mr. Esper raised various objections, Mr. Trump said that \u2018we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly,\u2019 adding that \u2018no one would know it was us,\u2019\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/mark-esper-book-trump.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cMr. Trump said he would just say that the United States had not conducted the strike, Mr. Esper recounts, writing that he would have thought it was a joke had he not been staring Mr. Trump in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump had also pushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-mexico-cartels-ebrard\/mexico-thanks-trump-for-holding-off-on-terrorist-designation-for-drug-cartels-idUSKBN1YB01M\">designate<\/a> Mexican drug cartels as terrorists in 2019 before ultimately holding off on doing so at the request of Mexican President Lopez Obrador.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican drug cartels, officially referred to as Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs), are the greatest drug trafficking threat that the U.S. faces, according to the DEA, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-02\/DIR-008-21%202020%20National%20Drug%20Threat%20Assessment_WEB.pdf\">notes<\/a> that they \u201ccontrol most of the U.S. drug market and have established varied transportation routes, have advanced communications capabilities, and hold strong affiliations with criminal groups and gangs in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials say that the Mexican cartels have established clandestine laboratories in Mexico for the synthesis of fentanyl and other drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican drug cartels remain the primary source for illicit drugs ranging from fentanyl to methamphetamines in the U.S., and they produce the drugs in \u201cindustrial scale laboratories\u201d with precursor chemicals that come from China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChemical shipments are mislabeled at the origin, shipped to legitimate companies, and then diverted by the TCO and smuggled to the clandestine laboratories,\u201d the DEA notes.<\/p>\n<p>The DEA adds that the Mexican drug cartels \u201ccontrol most of the U.S. drug market and have established varied transportation routes, have advanced communications capabilities, and hold strong affiliations with criminal groups and gangs in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexican TCOs export significant wholesale quantities of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana into the United States annually,\u201d the report added. \u201cDEA considers the following nine Mexican TCOs as having the greatest drug trafficking impact on the United States: Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG, BeltranLeyva Organization, Cartel del Noreste and Los Zetas, Guerreros Unidos, Gulf Cartel, Juarez Cartel and La Linea, La Familia Michoac\u00e1na, and Los Rojos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then-President Donald Trump reportedly asked then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in 2020 about launching missiles into Mexico to destroy drug cartel labs, according to a new book.Esper 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