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President Trump suggested missile strikes in Mexico against drug cartels, former defense secretary says

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Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says President Trump suggested firing missiles into Mexico to combat drug cartels. Esper says when he pushed back on the idea, Mr. Trump said, "No one would know it was us" Esper served as President Trump's second secretary of defense from 2019 until 2020.

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CBS News

President Trump suggested missile strikes in Mexico against drug cartels, former defense secretary says

"I had to explain to him, 'We-- we can't do that. It would violate international law,'" Mark Esper tells Norah O'Donnell.

2 years ago

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Daily Star

Trump had plan to 'secretly fire missiles into Mexico at cartels', says insider

According to his former defence secretary Mark Esper, Donald Trump asked multiple times whether he could secretly launch missiles into Mexico to hit cartel drug labs when he was President

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The National Desk

Former Defense secretary says Trump suggested firing missiles at Mexican drug labs

WASHINGTON (TND) — Mark Esper’s tenure as U. S. Defense Secretary ended in November of 2020. He was fired by President Donald Trump with tensions between the two men boiling over months before when Esper publicly disagreed with then-President Trump’s request to use National Guard troops to quell social justice protests taking place across the country.

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