Other threads cover "bomb-Mexico" - Here's ESPER naming names. More shocking, what we DON'T know.

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Yeah, a book deal, fine. Yeah, better late than never. Yeah, he covers the cover of "If I didn't speak up then, or left, somebody worse would take over."

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https://news.yahoo.com/trump-proposed-launching-missiles-mexico-115824257.html

Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to 'Destroy the Drug Labs,' Esper Says

…. Esper singles out officials whom he considered erratic or dangerous influences on Trump, with policy adviser Stephen Miller near the top of the list. He recounts that Miller proposed sending 250,000 troops to the southern border, claiming that a large caravan of migrants was en route. “The U.S. armed forces don’t have 250,000 troops to send to the border for such nonsense,” Esper writes that he responded. ….

In October 2019, after members of the national security team assembled in the Situation Room to watch a feed of the raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Miller proposed securing al-Baghdadi’s head, dipping it in pig’s blood and parading it around to warn other terrorists, Esper writes. That would be a “war crime,” Esper shot back. ….

Esper also viewed Mark Meadows, Trump’s final chief of staff, as a huge problem for the administration and the national security team in particular. Meadows often threw the president’s name around when barking orders, but Esper makes clear that he often was not certain whether Meadows was communicating what Trump wanted or what Meadows wanted.

He also writes about repeated clashes with Robert O’Brien, Trump’s national security adviser in the final year, describing O’Brien as advocating a bellicose approach to Iran without considering the potential fallout. ....

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