Ex-President Donald Trump on Sunday didn’t deny former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s account of him proposing that the U.S. military fire missiles into Mexico to fight drug cartels.
So it turns out that Trump’s supposed feat of avoiding disastrous military engagements is unearned, like every other credit in his life.
I’m actually thrilled TFG’s cabal were as focused as they were on grifting.
Had any of them been even vaguely competent we’d be a dead democracy.
Esper also told “60 Minutes” that he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley had to secretly work together to keep Trump from doing “dangerous things” with the military “that could have taken the country in a dark direction” during the last year of his presidency.
A couple of things stand out here: (1) It’s difficult to imagine it being any darker than it was with a botched, corrupt, and mismanaged response to Covid-19. Layer this disaster onto launching a military campaign in Venezuela, lobbing missiles into Mexico, and blockading Cuba - for what really? (2) TFG’s “no comment” makes me think he has started listening to an attorney. What are the odds? Perhaps there is at least some hard-headed understanding of his circumstances.
The Mouth That Roared has no comment?? What is this world coming to?? Oh, so he’s basically saying it’s true…
Also thought it fine for the U.S. military to shoot protestors in the legs.
Adult legs would get the bullets. Children standing near them would get bullets in the upper torso and head. How’s that for pro-life?
A blockade against Cuba? Why?
Indicating TFG watched way too much '60s and '70s TV.
He is a lunatic. A missile strike is what took out Sulemani, so it likely made sense to try the same in Mexico.
“Why?”
Trump was just Havana bad day.
A day to celebrate! Benedict Donnie actually had a “No Comment”.
I welcome many many more “No Comment”'s and many many more days of them.
And would that missel strike to Venezuela be because he lost the election, you know because of dead Chavez?
"Christ, what an asshole." – Lucy Van Pelt
No comment? From Trump? Nah, nah. Delayed comment. It’s going to be a beaut, that I can tell you.
Hitting Mexican drug labs would have been hugely popular in the US. He wasn’t wrong about that part.
He’s saving it for a rally.
He has to workshop it on the road first.
It could be that he’s that self-aware, but I think it’s more likely just a dog whistle to his MAGA base about being tough on Mexico.
They’ll read it as not just confirmation, but a promise to act on it if he’s reelected, and at the same time it lets him deflect at least some of the criticism about what an insane idea it is.
Agree but he thought he could blame the missile strikes on China. .