{"id":1465756,"date":"2022-05-05T20:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465756"},"modified":"2022-05-05T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:30:20","slug":"trump-proposed-missile-attack-to-wipe-out-mexican-drug-cartels-mark-esper-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-proposed-missile-attack-to-wipe-out-mexican-drug-cartels-mark-esper-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Proposed Missile Attack To Wipe Out Mexican Drug Cartels, Mark Esper Claims"},"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-proposed-missile-attack-to-wipe-out-mexican-drug-cartels-mark-esper-claims%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=1465756&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Former President Donald Trump allegedly said he wanted to launch missiles into Mexico to wipe out drug cartels, former defense secretary Mark Esper claims in his upcoming memoir, according to the New York Times (NYT).<\/p>\n<p>Esper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/mark-esper-book-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly recounts<\/a> in \u201cA Sacred Oath,\u201d set to be released Tuesday, how Trump allegedly asked at least twice if the military could \u201cshoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs\u201d in the summer of 2020. Esper reportedly said Trump cited the constant flow of narcotics across the border as his reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have control of their own country,\u201d Trump allegedly said, according to Esper. Esper claims he objected to the suggestion, to which <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/14\/donald-trump-reveals-do-differently-president-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a> allegedly said \u201cwe could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly,\u201d according to the NYT. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/13\/trump-hispanics-leaving-democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a> allegedly said the U.S. could then deny they had conducted the strike, the NYT reported citing Esper. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/22\/kevin-mccarthy-encourage-donald-trump-resign-january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: McCarthy Said He Would Encourage Trump To Resign After Capitol Riot, Audio Recording Reveals)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7424177\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7424177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks next to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a news conference to announce the Trump administration\u2019s restoration of sanctions on Iran, at the U.S. State Department in Washington, U.S., September 21, 2020. Patrick Semansky\/Pool via REUTERS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo one would know it was us,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/05\/mitt-romney-trump-very-likely-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a> allegedly added.<\/p>\n<p>Esper also claims Trump is \u201can unprincipled person who, given. his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service.\u201d Esper allegedly considered resigning several times but was allegedly worried that should he resign he would be replaced with a pro-Trump loyalist, which Esper believed would be unfair to the American people.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump allegedly said he wanted to launch missiles into Mexico to wipe out drug cartels, former defense secretary Mark Esper claims in his upcoming memoir,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1481807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}