comes another book. this time by this man, mark asper, he was trump second secretary of defense and as you probably last heard of him back in 2020 when trump fired him on twitter right after the election. in the past year and a half we ve learned more about the circumstances of his ouster, trump and esper were on the outs for much of 2020. after esper publicly at the time disagreed with the ex presidents proposal to use the military to quash protests across this country after the murder of george floyd. but here s the thing, esper s last straw it may have been courtesy of this man, johnny mcentee, he s a close trump ally, a former pro ball player, who actually ran the powerful white house personnel office. in fact mcentee was sometimes called the deputy president because the authority that he wielded within the trump
shocking, previously unreported allegations. according to a new york times report on the book, which is not yet publicly been released quote, trump asked esper about the possibility of launching missiles into mexico to destroy the drug labs and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the united states s involvement in a strike against its southern neighbor could be kept secret. now one esper raised various objections about this trump said that we could just, shoot some patriot michels and take out the labs quietly. adding that no one would know it was us. now let me back here here for a second, trump wanted to bomb mexico, our ally our southern neighbor in what would certainly be an act of war. he wanted to do this clandestinely, possibly in such a way that somehow blames another actor other than unites the united states. according to esper one of trump s former trump advisor stephen miller also proposed
administration. about a month before esper was actually fired, mcentee s office reportedly circulated this memo about him as pressure field by jonathan call in his book, betrayal, the memo outlines more than a dozen reasons esper should be removed. and chief among them publicly opposing the president s direction to utilize american forces to put down the riots just outside the white house. the memo also cite some other concerns, esper s removal of the confederate flag from military instantly installations, the fact that he promoted lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the national security official who of course became a star witness in trump s first impeachment trial. now over years since he was fired, asper is outselling a memoir on his time in the administration. and as in the case with every other tell-all about the ex president, it is full of some