Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper wrote in his upcoming book that Trump wanted to keep the missile attack a secret, The New York Times reported.
Several excerpts from Esper's book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times," were published by the Times on Thursday. The memoir will be published on May 10.
Esper, who served as defense secretary from July 2019 until November 2020, wrote in the book that Trump had become increasingly unhappy about drugs coming through the Mexican border. In a meeting with the then-president in the summer of 2020, Esper wrote that Trump suggested at least twice that the US military could "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs," according to The Times.Esper said he had objected to the idea at the time.
But according to him, Trump responded by proposing they "just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly", adding that "no one would know it was us," according to the Times. The former defense secretary said he initially thought Trump was joking, but then realized he wasn't when he looked him in the face, The Times reported.In the book, Esper recounts several heated debates with Trump, whom he describes as an "unprincipled person who, given his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service," as per The Times.who were protesting the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020.
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