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As president, Donald Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico after one of his leading public health officials came into the Oval Office, wearing a dress uniform, and said such facilities should be handled by putting lead to target to stop the flow of illicit substances across the border into the United States.
He raised it several times, eventually asking a stunned Defense Secretary Mark Esper whether the United States could indeed bomb the labs, according to a new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. White House officials said the official, Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir, often wore his dress uniform for meetings with Trump, which confused him.
The response from White House aides was not to try to change Trumps view, but to consider asking Giroir not to wear his uniform to the Oval Office anymore, Haberman writes in Confidence Man, an extensive book about Trumps time in New York and as president.
The 607-page book, which has long been awaited by many of Trumps aides, is set to be published Tuesday. A copy was obtained by The Washington Post. The book details unusual and erratic interactions between Trump and world leaders, members of Congress and his own aides, along with behind-the-scenes accounts of his time as a businessman.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/28/trump-book-white-house-bomb-mexico/
Rather disturbing that shit like this went on and people were still silent.
badhair77
(4,208 posts)The uniform confused him. Just take that in.
underpants
(182,585 posts)Stable genius.
brush
(53,728 posts)Why of course.
Irish_Dem
(46,426 posts)At this time, elementary-age and preadolescent children -- ages 7 to 11 -- show logical but concrete reasoning.
But during this stage, most children still cannot think abstractly or hypothetically.