Former President Trump proposed launching missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs run by cartels, according to an upcoming memoir from Mark Esper, his former secretary of Defense.
They don’t have control of their own country,” Trump told Esper, according to the Times’ review of the memoir.
When Esper objected, Trump responded “no one would know it was us” and “we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly.”
Esper at first assumed it was a joke but thought otherwise as he looked at the president, according to The Times.