Trump Jr. Defends Dad's Alleged Plan to Bomb Mexico: 'Is That a Bad Thing?'
BY JAKE THOMAS ON 5/6/22 AT 8:54 PM EDT
Donald Trump Jr. is suggesting that his father's reported idea to launch missiles at Mexican drug labs wasn't such a bad idea.
Trump Jr. made the remarks on Twitter Friday following claims by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper that Trump brought up firing Patriot missiles into Mexico. Esper is the most recent Trump administration official to make headlines for claims about the former president's behavior. The tweet from Trump Jr. shows he continues to be one of his father's fiercest defenders.
"I'm still trying to figure out the recent media outrage about my father possibly wanting to target Mexican drug cartel manufacturing facilities in Mexico... Is that supposed to be a bad thing???" Trump Jr. wrote in a tweet.
In a soon-to-be-released memoir, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Defense Secretary in Extraordinary Times, Esper wrote that Trump twice asked him about launching missiles into Mexico to "destroy the drug labs." Esper wrote in his book that Trump brought up the idea in the summer of 2020, saying "we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly." Trump added that "no one would know it was us," according to the book.
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