Trump announced he would insist the United States did not conduct the attack and assured Esper that “no one would know it was us,” the former DOD chief recounted, stressing he would have thought Trump was joking if he hadn’t seen his face.
“They don’t have control of their own country,” Esper recalled Trump stating, according to the New York Times. “We could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly.” Trump was unhappy about the steady stream of illegal drugs flooding the U.S.-Mexico border. According to Esper, he asked the question in the summer of 2020 and brought it up at least twice. His book, A Sacred Oath, is slated for release next Tuesday.
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Esper worked as Trump’s defense secretary from July 23, 2019, to November 9, 2020, when he was fired via tweet. He had succeeded Jim Mattis, who resigned over Trump’s declared choice to pull troops out of Syria and subsequently condemned the former President as a threat to the Constitution.
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In his book, Esper contends Trump’s behavior never came to the point at which invoking the 25th Amendment, wherein the Vice President and members of the Cabinet can oust an unfit President from office, was warranted. Although, Esper panned Trump as “an unprincipled person who, given his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service.” He stressed that after a conference Trump held with the Joint Chiefs on May 9, 2020, regarding China and the pandemic, an unidentified officer told Esper the meeting encouraged him to research the amendment.
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“I felt like I was writing for history and for the American people,” Esper announced due to the New York Times.
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Esper surmised that Trump’s conduct became increasingly volatile after he was acquitted in his first impeachment trial, which took place after evidence emerged that Trump attempted to leverage military aid to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on the Biden family. Concerns about his reelection prospects had overtaken much of Trump’s decision-making process during his final year in office, according to Esper.
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Worsening matters were the “yes-men” and others feeding the former President baffling ideas, Esper wrote. After officials monitored the raid that killed Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in October 2019, White House policy adviser Stephen Miller suggested that al Baghdadi’s head be dipped in pig’s blood and paraded around to warn other terrorists not to mess with the U.S., Esper claimed. The former defense secretary stressed that would amount to a “war crime.”
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