Trump Wanted To ‘Quietly’ Bomb Mexico Says Defense Secretary Esper

“To be clear, Trump wanted to bomb Mexico, our ally and southern neighbor in what would certainly be an act of war. And he wanted to do it clandestinely, possibly in such a way that blamed another actor other than the United States,” says Ayman Mohyeldin on revelations in Esper’s new book. 

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[Ngamotu]

Evidently, no one told Trump that even an exploded bomb leaves remains that can be traced back to the owner. That's how it was figured out that a Russian missile is what caused the downing of Malaysian Flight 17.

[hopeandpeace]

REMEMBER HE WANTED TO NUKE THE WEATHER TOO🤣🤣🤣🤣

[sophiasummers]

Drug manufacturing in Mexico is specifically to meet American demand for.these drugs.
Maybe solve the problem by dealing with Americas demand for drugs.

[Overcaffenated]

US bombs Mexico.
Trump: "Canada did it!"

[donnewton]

Let's be honest. We shouldn't have to wait for books from these people to find out they didn't do what they should have done at the time.

[janetbeebe]

I think its pernicious that these so called, Truth Tellers are now able to tell what really happened in a book, but neglected to sound the alarm when it was happening.

[LeoDragon]

I love the way Esper ‘bravely’ waited to reveal this in his book, so he gets to profit from it. Do these people have no morals whatsoever? I guess not.

[janiekcarney]

I’ll never buy any books from these traitors. They should have told it at the time it happened.

[socramzetroc]

Here's a Méxican 🇲🇽

I just wanted to propose you if you people from the north🇺🇸stop demanding drugs and bringing weapons to my country.
That should help, isn't it?

[someguy]

We’ve got the quietest bombs. Bigly, beautifully quiet. Much quieter than windmills.

[samimurtomaki]

Perhaps the only reason he did not start war was that everybody was against his crazy plans.

[needk]

Trump's level of evil is very much the same as Putin or Hitler. I'm serious.

[l.g.]

How are the words "quiet" and "bombs" even in the same sentence?!? Anyone? I'll wait. 🤔

[seakr]

I am not actually surprised, Trump is used to getting away with everything all his life ( still does) so why would he not expect to get away with this?

[joemagnus]

I'm pretty disgusted by all these minions who wait until they're fired & years later get money off a book for not reporting war crimes & deranged behavior

[cesarsilva]

Let's just thank God this man is no longer in that position !! America must keep it that way!

[HannibalOrJustRex]

If he's eager to engage in something massive like throwing bombs around and then knowingly lie and deny responsibility over such consequential behavior, I think you can safely assume that it's more than likely that he's willfully done other things he's been accused of and then knowingly lied about it.

[charcolew]

Trump used the word "quietly" because he doesn't know the words "covertly" or "clandestinely".

[mizzury]

Okay, look I'm not that happy with Biden and was disappointed that he was the choice to run but with January 6th and all this other disturbing stuff being revealing, it just proves that Trump needed to be removed from office. It should have happened at the first impeachment trial if Republicans had actually loved their country.

[ericcarlson]

Esper can put his name on the long list of people who told themselves they were the adults in the room, when they were actually just enablers. Real adults would have pulled the trigger on the 25th Amendment long ago.