Mark Esper, the former secretary of defense whom Trump tweeted, recounts the excesses, threats and follies of the ex-president in a book. Like the proposal to hit drug labs in Mexico with US missiles
Donald Trump, as president, wanted to disperse protests against racial injustice after the killing of George Floyd by shooting at protesters (to injure their legs) and proposed firing rockets at Mexico to destroy the laboratories in which the drug dealers produce the drugs for export to the USA. And when the Attorney General, Defense Secretary and Chief of Staff told him that the law does not allow the army to be used to break up demonstrations, Trump erupted in a fit of rage: apostrophe from those present, including his deputy Mike Pence With a brutal, you are all damn losers .
Many books have been published on the background of the Republican presidency, full of anecdotes about the excesses of The Donald, who was accustomed to mistreating his staff and ignoring constitutional rules and constraints. Trumpians generally dismiss them as sensationalist essays by journalists eavesdropping behind doors trying to milk celebrity and earnings from a nonetheless hugely popular figure.
A Sacred Oath, the book coming out in American bookstores today, is different from the others. Its author is neither a journalist nor a leftist, but Mark Esper: the man of solid conservative credentials whom Trump elected secretary of defense after Jim Mattis (a former general) left the Pentagon by slamming the door because he was unfamiliar with politics of the White House did not agree. Even Esper’s on defense has been a stormy navigation: first efforts to contain Trump’s bellicose ideas on Iran and interventions in Syria, then the clash from spring 2020, when the president began to suspect improper use of the army ( dem mandated by the Constitution to defend against external threats).
The minister decided to stay at his post all the time to try to avoid coups by his president: he also feared midterm coup attempts and had asked the generals to brief him on any orders from the White House in this regard, which did not arrive at his Desk in the Pentagon over. Now Esper, who was fired with a tweet from Trump six days after his defeat by Biden in the presidential election, recounts his daring administrative adventure in a book so full of episodes and embarrassing details that it has even prompted the current Democratic administration to seeking to block the release of some of the most devastating revelations for reasons of national security and fear of jeopardizing relations with some partners.
Starting with Mexico, he’s certainly not happy about the prospect of being the target of a missile attack from a friendly country that doesn’t trust its crime-fighting abilities. The Pentagon tried to block the publication of that part of the book, but last November Esper condemned the ministry, which he headed, in a court of law, saying Americans’ right to know what happened must outweigh diplomatic concerns . He checked it out and so we can now learn from the hands-on voice of a protagonist that Trump said: We could fire some Patriot missiles at their labs without saying anything. Nobody would know it was us.
Chilling for the proposal itself, for the crazy idea that in an age of planetary surveillance with spy satellites controlling every corner of the world, a missile attack can go unnoticed, and for their incompetence: the patriots are used to shooting down flying objects, airplanes or other missiles . Americans now know what to expect when Trump returns to the White House after, as he intends, eliminating the uncoordinated administration leaders.
May 10, 2022 (Modification May 10, 2022 | 07:26)
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